Christmas bauble crochet pattern — one piece, 12 counted rounds
A free Christmas bauble crochet pattern for a ball about 5 cm across, worked on a 4.0 mm hook in four colours, about forty-five minutes' work. Twelve rounds: four opening out to 24 stitches, five straight through the middle, three closing back in. The colour changes fall on rounds 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11, which lays six bands of two rounds each up the sides of a plain sphere — cream, cranberry, forest, cream, cranberry, gold — and the loop it hangs by is chained off the same tail that closes the top. All 12 rounds are written out below in one piece, with the number of stitches it leaves you on printed beside it.
Maths verified, not yet made. Every one of the 12 rounds was checked against the round before it by machine — the counts, the increases and the decreases all add up. What nobody can promise you yet is how it sits in the hand.How we check
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Why it is rated Beginner
Beginner: one increase pattern, one decrease pattern and five straight rounds between them. Every colour change lands at the start of a round, so nothing is counted mid-round.
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00What you need before you start
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What you need before you start
Yarn — four colours, all weight 4
about 4 mWeight 4 medium (worsted / aran) acrylic
about 5 mWeight 4 medium (worsted / aran) acrylic
about 3 mWeight 4 medium (worsted / aran) acrylic
about 3 m, the loop includedWeight 4 medium (worsted / aran) acrylic
Tools
3 you probably own, 1 to buyYou likely have
Tapestry needle
Scissors
Stitch markers
You need to buy
Polyester stuffing (~10 g)
Optional
A 20 cm length of narrow ribbon, if you would rather hang it from that than from the chain loop
Row counter
Gauge and finished size
the last check before you cast onTension
Tight enough that the stuffing does not show between the stitches. Exact gauge is not critical — a looser hand gives a slightly larger bauble.
Finished size
~5 cm across, not counting the hanging loop
How to make the christmas bauble
Switching rewrites every round:US6 sc in mrUK6 dc in mrWork a US sc as a UK single crochet and the fabric comes out looser and taller.
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01The bauble
A ball in twelve rounds. Four rounds opening out, five straight…12 RNDS
starts in cream· magic ring· Piece 1 of 1
First six rounds[6] [12] [18] [24] [24] [24]
Opening out to 24
RND 1–41[6]
2[12]
3[18]
4[24]
Straight through the middle
RND 5–95[24]
6[24]
7[24]
8[24]
9[24]
Closing in
RND 10–1210[18]
11[12]
12[6]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreasechchainsl stslip stitchst(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneSix stitches left at the top. Draw them closed with the tail, then chain twenty and slip stitch back down the chain to make the loop it hangs by.
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Seven notes on the christmas bauble
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01An original Crochet Genie design.
02Worked in a continuous spiral, so there is nothing to join and nothing to turn.
03The fabric is plain single crochet throughout and comes out smooth. The bands are colour changes made at the start of a round — no raised, ribbed or openwork stitch is worked anywhere in the ball.
04Six bands, two rounds each: cream, cranberry, forest, cream, cranberry, gold. Change yarn on the last pull-through of the previous round's final stitch so each band starts cleanly.
05Stuff firmly while the opening is still wide, around round 10. Once it is down to twelve stitches the stuffing goes in a pinch at a time.
06The hanging loop is worked from the finishing tail: ch 20, then sl st back down the chain and fasten off into the top of the ball. It is a finishing step rather than a counted round, so it lives in this note and not in the round list.
07One piece. Nothing is sewn to anything, and there is one tail to weave in.
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