Difficulty: Beginner ✦✧✧✧✧
Here is the third in this series of free crochet Christmas ornament patterns to help decorate your tree. This one is shaped like a bell. The Christmas ornaments are inspired by classic glass Christmas ornaments. They are baby and toddler friendly which is perfect in my home right now.
For these ornaments, I am using a sparkly light fingering weight yarn (I used Loops and Threads Payette yarn in icicle, ruby red, and sterling silver) with a 3.25mm (D) hook.
I love the sparkly thread running through the yarn and the occasional piece of sequins.
They give the ornaments just the right sparkly touch that will look great when Christmas lights reflect off of them!
This bell Christmas ornament measures about 4.5 inches long and 3.5 inches in diameter at its widest point
Suvi's 2017 Christmas Ornaments:
Each ornament is made in a continuous spiral.
Note: you will notice that about 2/3 of the sequins gets pushed to the inside (the "wrong" side) of the ornament as your stitch it. You can either coax it to the "right" side, or turn the ornament inside out when stuffing to get more sequins on the outside. I opted to coax some of the sequins to the "right" side for my ornaments.
Row 1: Ch 2, 6 sc in the 2nd st from the hook.
Row 2: Sc 6.
Row 3: Sc 6.
Row 4: 2 sc in each st around. (12 sts)
Row 5: (2sc in the next st, sc) repeat 6 times. (18 sts)
Row 6: (2 sc in the next st, sc 2) repeat 6 times. (24 sts)
Row 7: Sc 24.
Row 8: Sc 24.
Row 9: Sc 24.
Row 10: (Sc2tog, sc 4) repeat 4 times. (20 sts)
Row 11: Sc 20.
Row 12: Sc 20.
Row 13: (2 sc in the next st, sc 3) repeat 5 times. (25 sts)
Row 14: Sc 25.
Row 15: Sc 25.
Row 16: (2 sc in the next st, sc 4) repeat 5 times. (30 sts)
Row 17: Sc 30.
Row 18: (2 sc in the next st, sc 5) repeat 5 times. (35 sts)
Row 19: Sc 35.
Row 20: (2 sc in the next st, sc 4) repeat 7 times. (42 sts)
Row 21: (2 sc in the next st, sc 4) repeat 8 times, sc 2. (50 sts)
Row 22: (2 sc in the next st, sc 4) repeat 10 times. (60 sts)
Flip inside out.
Row 23: Working in the front loop only: (sc 4, sc2tog) repeat 10 times. (50 sts)
Row 24: (Sc2tog, sc) repeat 16 times, sc2tog. (33 sts)
Row 25: (Sc 3, sc2tog) repeat 6 times, sc 3. (27 sts)
Row 26: (Sc2tog, sc 2) repeat 7 times. (21 sts)
Row 27: (Sc2tog, sc 2) repeat 5 times, sc2tog. (15 sts, the last decrease overlaps with the first st in the round)
Row 28: (Sc 2, sc2tog) repeat 4 times. (11 sts, the last decrease overlaps with the first st in the round)
Stuff the bell.
Row 29: (Sc, sc2tog) repeat 4 times. (7 sts, the last decrease overlaps with the first st in the round)
Row 30: Sc2tog, sc, sc2tog, sc 2. (5 sts)
Row 31: Sc 5.
Row 32: Sc2tog, sl st 1. Tie off.
