Christmas Santa Ornament

 

Hi everyone! This Christmas ornament is a matching piece to one of my most popular designs, my Christmas Wreath Ornament, which I made a few years ago. Until now I am both astonished and grateful for all the attention that post has gained, and so for this year I decided to come up with a new ornament inspired by it. About this Santa ornament, I used a plastic ring that I purchased from a crafts store as a base to crochet Santa faces around it in a circle. You can swap for a bigger or smaller ring than the one I used easily and make as many faces as you want by allocating six double crochet stitches in the first round for each face. I hope you have fun with this quick and easy project, and make sure to check out my other Christmas crochet projects.

Overview:

• Skill level: Intermediate.
• Instructions style: written instructions + charts.

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Check out my other crochet Christmas projects:

Christmas Wreath Ornament

Christmas Hat and Tree Granny Squares

 

Christmas Cherry Granny Square

Santa Club Coaster

Christmas Stocking Granny Square

Materials: 

• Yarn: any cotton yarn in the following colors and quantities: one red skein, one white skein, and one pink skein. Suggested yarn: D.M.C Happy Cotton, 0.7 oz (20 g), 47 yards (43 m).
• Crochet hooks, sizes E/4 (3.5 mm).
• One plastic ring, 2" (5 cm) in diameter, 1/4" (0.7 cm) thick.
• Beads, eight in red, 0.25" (0.6 cm) in diameter, and sixteen in black, 0.2" (0.5 cm) in diameter.
• Tapestry needle.

Measurements:

• Ornament diameter: 5" (12.5 cm).
• Cord length: 9" (22 cm). 

Yardage: 37- 38 yards (34- 35 m), approx. 

Gauge: 28 st and 12 rounds = 4"x 4" (10 cm x 10 cm) in dc stitch.

Crochet terms (US):

• ch: chain.
• st: stitch.
• sts: stitches.
• sl st: slip stitch.
• sc: single crochet.
• dc: double crochet.
• picot: ch 3, sl st in first ch.

Instructions:

With red yarn, work as follows:

Round 1: make a standing dc around the ring as shown in photos, dc 48, sl st into first dc. Cut red yarn and weave in loose ends. Cut yarn and weave loose ends. (48 sts)

 

  

Round 2: with white yarn and into any st, make a standing sc (or bind the yarn, ch 1 and sc), sc in each st to end, sl st into first sc. Cut yarn and weave in loose ends. (48 sts)

Work the next round through back loops of the sts only.

Round 3: with pink yarn and into any st, make a standing sc (or bind the yarn, ch 1 and sc), sc in each st 4 more times, *skip st, ch 3, sc in each st 5, repeat from * to last st, skip st, ch 3, sl st into first sc.

Round 4: ch 1 and sc in first st, sc in st 4 more times, *ch 1, sc 1 in the ch 3 space, ch 1, sc in st 5 times, repeat from * to last ch 3 space, ch 1, sc in the ch 3 space, ch 1, sl st into first sc. Cut yarn and weave in loose ends.

Round 5: with white yarn, and into any sc between any of the sc 5 clusters, make a standing sc (or bind the yarn, ch 1 and sc), ch 1, *(dc, make one picot) six times into the middle st of next five sc cluster, dc into the same st one more time, ch 1, sc into next st, repeat from * to end, but don't make the last sc, instead, sl st to the first sc of the round. Cut yarn and weave in loose ends.

Sew the beads of the nose and eyes of each Santa face in place as shown in the photos.

With red yarn, make a 9" (22 cm) cord of any type (I-cord, or Romanian Cord), leaving out a 3" (7.5 cm) yarn tail at the beginning and the end. Make an overhand knot using the two ends of the yarn. Insert the two strands of yarn in the back of round 1, right at the center of any Santa face, then tie them together.

Lastly, feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions or find something confusing in the pattern.

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