Crocheted Christmas tree can be a New Year tree decoration, decor for a festive table or a cute souvenir for a friend. The options for making knitted Christmas trees proposed in this article are very simple to implement. These recipes will come in handy for novice craftswomen, as well as those who raise young children. Indeed, co-creation is very popular with many children.
How to crochet a Christmas tree: the easiest way
This method of knitting a Christmas tree can be applied even in cases where the craftswoman does not have a crochet at all or just started training.
In the first case, she can use any tape or tape at her discretion. In the second, you need to tie a long chain of air loops (VP). Before crocheting a Christmas tree , you should think about yarn and a hook. It is better to choose a thread thin and dense, even hard. For example, cotton or linen. And the hook should be small (optimally 0.9-1.2).
The length of the initial chain can be calculated by determining the width of the future Christmas tree and multiplying this number by eight. The width of the knitted ribbon should be no more than 2 cm. Several rows of single crochet (RLS) or double crochet (CCH) stitches can be connected.
The recipe for crocheting a Christmas tree for beginners involves assembling the product. The tape should be laid out on a flat surface, having formed all the bends, and string each layer on the thread. Between the layers you can put simple or tied beads or other appropriate decor.
Christmas tree knitting
The next most sophisticated way to crochet a Christmas tree is to make a flat triangular Christmas tree.
Almost any triangular motif scheme is suitable for this. It is better that it be moderately openwork, otherwise the silhouette of the Christmas tree in the finished knitted product will be difficult to guess. The photo below offers several schemes that can be used for work.
Finished products for stiffening need to be soaked in a solution of gelatin, sugar, starch or PVA glue.
Crocheted cone tree: workshop
The Christmas tree, the cone serves as the basis for it, is the most universal. It can be executed in almost any color, decorated at your own discretion and used literally everywhere.
Before crocheting a Christmas tree, you should consider filling it. It can be a synthetic winterizer, cotton wool or a cardboard cone. If it was decided to dwell on the latter option, then it must be prepared in advance. The size of the finished cone should be guided in the process. So, when there are all the necessary materials (yarn, hook, scissors, cone or stuffing, decor), you can start knitting a Christmas tree:
- Begin by knitting the bottom. To do this, they collect 4 VPs, close them in a ring and knit 6SBN in it.
- In each next row it is necessary to increase the number of RLS by 6. It is better to make additions not one above the other, but a little diagonally, otherwise it will turn out not a circle, but a hexagon. When the width of the circle is equal to the size of the bottom of the tree (often about 7 rows are enough), it is time to move on to knitting a conical base.
- As the boundary between the two parts, you need to knit a series of RLS without additions, while knitting all RLS for the back wall of the loops of the previous row.
- Next, you should perform a uniform reduction of the canvas for 6 sc in every fifth row.
- After knitting about half of the tree, you need to insert a cardboard cone inside. If a synthetic winterizer or cotton wool is chosen as the filling, then they should be placed in the tree when it is tied to 2/3.
- The last third of the Christmas tree leaf should be reduced by 6 in each row.
So the basis for decoration is ready. It is very important to get a pointed top of the tree. This is possible if, after all RLS are reduced, perform several VIs and only then hide the thread.
Ways to decorate a cone-shaped Christmas tree: colored stripes
The described algorithm for how to crochet a Christmas tree for beginners can be used to make an independent product or the basis for placing decor. In the photo below, a method is proposed in which the tree-cone is connected by multi-colored threads and decorated with a minimum number of beads.
Knitting a Christmas tree with twigs
The next way to crochet a Christmas tree is to impose stylized branches on a cone-shaped base. To do this, you need to sequentially along each row knit a picot from several VP. This is not difficult, because all the circular rows from which the tree is formed are spiral. They have a common beginning and end. It’s better to start knitting pico from below, so it will be clearly visible what happens and whether it is necessary to shorten the “branches” closer to the top.
The size of the pico branches will need to be selected independently, since the characteristics of the yarn greatly influence their length and volume. The photo shows how you can transform the Christmas tree-base by the method of imposing pico.
An interesting feature of this particular development is the manufacture of the trunk and a flat, stable base for the Christmas tree. It is better to place cardboard or thick paper folded into a tube inside the barrel, and any disk of a suitable size is suitable for a flat base.
Another way to crochet a magnificent Christmas tree is to impose a conical base on semicircular elements.
Each of them consists of several CCHs with a common base. Knitting is done in a spiral, as in the method with pico.