How To Crochet 8 Christmas Tree Patterns + Tutorials

The art of gift-giving is lost with commercialism, while crocheters can make meaningful and thoughtful gifts. What comes to my mind the most are the people who have everything they want, but something handmade is more intelligent and unique.

For myself, I appreciate handmade a lot. I understand the work that went into the item. I love it even more when it has something unique that I can see fitting into my life. My friend, Tanya, made me a Nova Scotian-inspired quilt for my guest room at my house. I love it. I know she put a lot of thought into it, and my guest room is about travels with Nova Scotia being the epicentre. If you see the Christmas Fir Tree, that's my guest room. You can see I collect things on my travels for that room.

Crocheters can be significantly crushed under pressure at Christmas time with ideas that were bigger than the time allotment they had to do it. So, my goals below are projects that do not require a lot of time commitment.

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Dangly Christmas Ball Ornament - 1 Hour

The Crochet Dangly Christmas Tree is a crafty way to celebrate the upcoming Christmas Season. For those with craft tables or who are into gift-giving, these are simple ideas for making whimsical, festive ornaments. I used Caron One Pound for the tree. The layers are double-stranded for strength.

I settled on one large ball and one small ball between the layers. You can customize the number of felted balls to change the look.

I originally had green felted balls, but I felt they lacked my appreciation for the idea, so I changed them to colourful balls. There is no tutorial available for this project.

Christmas Tree Ribbon Ornament - 1 Hour

I saw the Christmas Ribbon Tree in the store, but it used real ribbon and other types of balls. The one-piece band acts as a ribbon, but it is thicker.

Once the band is done, you will use 5 felted balls and fold the ribbon into an evergreen tree. The balls separate the folded layers. For effect, I used assorted colours of felted balls.

The felted balls were 1" in diameter. If using this as a kid project, be careful when feeding the needle through the felted balls. There is no tutorial available for this project.

Ruffle Christmas Tree

In 2025, we added the Ruffle Christmas Tree Pattern to our collection of patterns. It is super cute and easy to make, and involves several steps to make it happen. A reusable Christmas Ornamental Tree for a table top, designed to make Christmas merry and bright.

You can find the pattern here.

Crochet Ombre Christmas Trees

Sarah from Repeat Crafter Me has developed a free miniature crochet ombre Christmas tree using Red Heart Super Saver Ombre yarn. The trees transition in colour automatically through her fun design. Measuring 10" tall, similar to my own Christmas Tree above, these are the right size for someone you may love.

They are great for the office, tight spaces like medical facilities, or a table in your home decor. Use them year after year.

Crocodile Stitch Christmas Tree - 4 Hours

The Crochet Crocodile Christmas Tree is an idea I had back in 2012. It consists of making a cone foundation that will slide over a Styrofoam® Cone. Once the height is achieved to match the cone, you will stop. The project is worked up as a continuous spiral.

The scale stitch, also known as the crocodile stitch, is then surface-overlayed onto the cone shape and spirals back to the top of the project.

• I also made one of these that was 5 feet tall. I stuffed it with polyfill, and it was really heavy. I'm saying the side is limitless with this concept.
• This sample in the project was a hat for me during a major show with the World's Largest Stocking.

Tutorial

This is an old video before my weight gain! YIKES! 

World's Largest Christmas Stocking - Presentation

Fir Christmas Tree - 6 Hours

Learn to crochet a Fir Christmas Tree assembled by motifs stacked on each other. This project depends on your style; it can also be an everyday, evergreen tree. It can work with regular decor any time of the year.

There are 3 sizes in this pattern.

• Small size is written in full with all of the motifs. There are 10 motifs.
• Medium is written, and the final eight motifs reference sizes in the small to complete. There are 15 motifs.
• Large is written with its own unique sizing but references both medium and small sizes to ensure consistency in growth. There are 21 motifs.

The pattern is very simple to follow, and there are three sizes. You can do the 6.5" tall version all the way to the 13.5" version.

A Styrofoam cone in the middle keeps the motifs perfectly aligned as they sit effortlessly on top of each other.

Tip: For the large size, the bands start off with 6 rounds, then eventually go to 5 rounds and finally 4 rounds. As you start with the large bands first, the project gets faster to make as the next bands you do will be smaller in diameter, and eventually, you will reduce the number of rounds.

Assembly Look

Tutorial

There are two tutorials. The first is just the tutorial, without the extra help of understanding the pattern itself. The second is just tips on what I would say to someone if they sat beside me, learning.

Corner to Corner Christmas Tree Block - 3 Hours

Sarah of Repeat Crafter Me has just released a stellar new Christmas Tree Pixel Square that uses the corner-to-corner stitching concept.

Sarah has graphed out and provided a photographic example of how it is done. You can get the graph on her website.

Sarah has mentioned that our video tutorial is one of the best for following the Corner-to-Corner Stitching Concept. We appreciate her saying so, as she is an industry leader in the blogging world.

Since the creation of this Christmas Tree Square back many years ago, Sarah went onto really diving hard into graphghan work designing. You can tell she loves it. The concept is pretty straight forward but getting the items to look right in pixelated format can be a challenge.

Christmas Button Tree

Have an abundance of buttons lying around looking for a use? These cute little Christmas Trees pattern can be worked up and add some of your favourites to make this fun little tree decoration.

Made with Lily Sugar N' Cream these Christmas trees will make a great little gift especially for a loved one in a nursing home who loves Christmas can't have a full-size tree in their room.