New Year is a favorite holiday of all people. He is family friendly. In Russia, they began to celebrate it on the first of January under Peter the Great. Prior to that, it was celebrated in March. In the New Year, it is customary to put a coniferous tree, usually a spruce, and dress it up.
The holiday is associated with many rituals, traditions, signs. One of them is to celebrate the new year with a new thing.
You can enter your own tradition in the house: to celebrate the New Year with a knitted Christmas toy.
Material
Christmas toys are small knitted products. The yarn for them should be with a thin thread. Knitted Christmas toys crochet and knitting. They will need 1; 2 and 2.5 mm.
Toys for the New Year tree can be knitted from the remains of yarn, which will always be found in the home of any knitter.
To create unique exclusive knitted Christmas tree decorations, you need to choose unusual, bright and non-standard yarn. Its composition in this case does not matter. These include buclé yarn, weed, fleece, mohair, cotton, with silk thread, acrylic, with lurex.
It is necessary to stock up on white, green, brown, red materials. They are always useful and needed.
For bulky toys, you need to buy a filler.
Types of toys
Knitted Christmas toys are voluminous and flat. They can be knitted to decorate the house and Christmas tree. For each New Year, you can knit a new toy. The assortment of Christmas decorations is diverse: the symbol of the year, Christmas trees, bells, Santa Claus, garlands, balls, cones, stars, bird and animal figures, snowflakes, cars, dolls, Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, snowman. Christmas knitted balls and toys are an immense field for creativity. They can be knitted with ornaments, openwork, from boucle yarn, from fleece yarn. For bonded balls, various decorations are used: buboes, embroidery, beads.
It remains to include imagination and create.
Jewelry
There are a lot of jewelry for knitted Christmas toys with your own hands. These include beads of various sizes, satin ribbons, ribbons, buttons, prepared small pompons, balls, pieces of fur, floss threads.
Crocheted Christmas tree toys: Christmas tree with balls
Required:
- Yarn of green, white, brown, red, blue.
- Hook number 2.
Execution
Knit 5-6 squares of different sizes with green yarn. Knit in any way. The squares should be tight. First, connect the largest square, then smaller, followed by a little less, even less, and so on 5-6 pieces. Each square should be crocheted with white yarn.
Knit a Christmas tree leg with brown yarn in the form of a truncated cone without crochet. Make small balls of yarn of blue and red colors of 15-18 pieces.
Christmas tree assembly
Bend one edge of each square in the middle of the sides of the square and sew on. Sew on the top of the ball. Lay the finished pieces diagonally in descending order. Below is the largest square. On top we put smaller and thus all the figures. The middle of the upper square is at the bottom corner. Sew to each other all the squares. Attach balls on them, evenly distributing colors.
Sew the Christmas tree trunk to the bottom square.
From above make a loop knitted from green yarn. The Christmas tree can be hung anywhere.
Knitted Christmas toys with knitting needles: a snowman in a beret and a scarf
The size of the finished snowman is 19 cm.
Materials and tools:
- White yarn with fleece or plain without fleece - 100 g.
- Floss orange and red.
- For a beret, any bright yarn of the same texture of two colors.
- Knitting needles - 4 pcs.
- Adhesive eyes or 2 black beads.
- Filler.
Patterns: facial knitting, garter stitch, 1x1 elastic.
Description of the head and torso:
- Dial 20 loops of white yarn. Loops are distributed on 4 knitting needles.
- 1st row - all loops are front.
- 2nd row - 2 faces., 1 yarn - report 6 times.
- 3rd row - 26 stitches of faces., The crochet of the previous row must be done by crossing the pet. So that there is no hole.
- Starting from 3 rows - all odd to 9 rows - faces. loops.
- 4th row - 3 persons, 1 yarn, report 6 times, a total of 32 loops.
- 6th row - 5 faces, 1 yarn, report 6 times, a total of 39 loops.
- 8th row - 6 faces, 1 yarn, report 6 times, total 45 loops.
- 10th row - 39th row - 44 facial.
- 40th row - 4 faces., 2 facial loops knit together. Report 6 times, a total of 38 loops.
- 41st row - 60th row - 38 faces.
- 61st row - 3 faces., 2 loops together knit faces., Report 6 times, a total of 32 loops.
- 62nd row - 2 faces., 2 loops knit together faces., Report 6 times, a total of 26 loops.
- 63rd row - 1 faces., 2 loops together knit front, report 6 times, a total of 20 loops.
- 64th row - 2 faces together., Report 6 times, a total of 14 loops.
- Fill the head and torso with filler. Where the 40th row, pull off with a white thread, drawn into a needle with a large eye. This is the place of the snowman's neck. After filling the head and body with filler, tighten the remaining pet. and sew holes on both sides.
Hands:
- Collect 8 stitches with white material.
- Knit 26 rows like this:
- 1 front, one loop, remove the thread behind the viscous. Close the loop. Fold the canvas in two and sew.
Gauntlets:
- Dial 15 pet. yarn of a different color, distribute them into three knitting needles.
- The first 2 rows are faces. loops.
- 3-5th rows - from the inside out. loops.
- 4th row - faces. loops.
- 6-13th rows - faces. loops.
- 14th row - 2 faces., 2 joint loops of faces., Report 3 times, a total of 10 loops.
- 15th row - 1 faces., 2 joint loops of faces., Report 3 times, a total of 7 loops.
- 16th row - 2 loops of faces. together, make a report 3 times, total 4 pet.
- Tighten the loop.
- For a finger you need to dial 5 loops. Knit 4 rows shawl. viscous. Knit 2 loops. together, 3 loops. together. Tighten the loop. Sew a finger. Sew it to the mitten.
- Knit the 2nd finger like the 1st.
Nose:
- Knit the nose with orange thread floss in a circle on 3 knitting needles. Pick up eight loops. Knit 1-5th rows of faces.
- 6th row - two faces together.
- Pull off the loops that remain.
The following actions:
- Sew the nose to the head.
- Glue the eyes.
- Embroider mouth with red thread.
- Sew hands on the sides to the neck.
Legs:
- Dial 8 pet. white yarn. Mark the middle of the row with colored thread.
- Row 1 and 2 - shawl. knitting.
- 3rd row - one chrome. Pet., 1 double crochet, 6 persons., Double crochet, then again one chrome. pet., total 10 loops.
- 4th row - 10 faces.
- 5th row - one chrome., Double crochet, 8 faces., 1 double crochet, then again one chrome. pet., total 12 loops.
- 6th row - 23rd row - handkerchief. knitting.
- On the side of the legs dial 17 loops to the middle marked with a colored thread.
- On the 2nd side to do the same. Total: 46 stitches.
Next, knit as follows:
- 1st row - 46 stitches
- 2nd row - 46 loops of faces.
- 3rd row - 46 stitches
- The next 3 rows are faces. loops.
- 7th row - 18 faces., 2 joint faces. loop, report 3 times, 18 faces.
- 8th, 10th, 12th, 14th rows - with facial loops.
- 9th row - 14 persons., 2 persons together., 3 persons., 2 persons together. make 3 times, 14 faces.
- 11th row - 10 people., 2 people together., 3 people., 2 people together. do 3 times, 10 facial.
- 13th row - 7 persons., 2 persons together., 3 persons., 2 persons together. make 3 times, 7 faces.
- Close the loop. Fill the boot with filler, make 2 boots in the same way as the 1st one. Sew legs to the body of a snowman.
Takes and scarf:
- Dial 44 loops on a beret colored yarn. To tie 4 rows with an elastic band 1X1, changing the color of the yarn. Further knit takes colored yarn with facial viscous.
- Make a bubo of 3 colors. Sew the bubo to the beret, sew the side seam of the beret. Putting on takes a snowman's head.
Skate boots
Crocheted Christmas tree toys with patterns are very popular. Below will be presented one of them.
Required:
- Small balls of yarn of different colors for shoes, white yarn for laces.
- Hook 1.5 mm.
- Paper clips of 2 pieces for each pair.
Description:
Draw a boot on paper. In the picture, tie the boot from the bottom up. Close the last loop. Without tearing the thread, knit a 5 cm cord. Start knitting the 2nd boot from top to bottom. When both shoes are ready, lace up the shoes with white yarn using a needle.
A paper clip will serve as a blade of skates. Bend the edge of the paper clip, thread the paper clip along the bottom edge and bend back.
To connect several pairs of shoes with skates of different colors.
The article presented Christmas toys that any knitter can make. If you add a little imagination and love, you get a real miracle.