Difficulty: Intermediate ✦✦✧✧✧
Here is the fourth in this series of free crochet Christmas ornament patterns to help decorate your tree. This one is a complex finial drop ornament. 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 teardrop Christmas ornament measures about 4.5 inches long and 2.25 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, 5 sc in the 2nd ch from the hook.
Row 2: Sc 5. Row 3: 2 sc in each st around. (10 sts)
Row 4: (2 sc in the next st, sc) repeat 5 times. (15 sts)
Row 5: (2 sc in the next st, sc) repeat 7 times, 2 sc in the next st. (23 sts)
Row 6: (Sc 2, 2 sc in the next st) repeat 7 times, sc 2. (30 sts)
Row 7: (2 sc in the next st, sc 3) repeat 7 times, 2 sc in the next st, sc. (38 sts)
Row 8: Sc 38.
Row 9: In the back loops only: (Sc2tog, sc) repeat 12 times, sc2tog. (25 sts)
Row 10: (Sc 2, sc2tog) repeat 6 times, sc. (19 sts) Row 11: Sc 19.
Row 12: (Sc 2, 2 sc n the next st) repeat 6 times, sc. (25 sts)
Row 13: (Sc 3, 2 sc in the next st) repeat 6 times, sc. (31 sts)
Row 14: (Sc 4, 2 sc in the next st) repeat 6 times, sc. (37 sts)
Row 15: (Sc 5, 2 sc in the next st) repeat 6 times, sc. (43 sts)
Row 16: Sc 43.
Row 17: Sc 43.
Row 18: Sc 43.
Row 19: Sc 43.
Row 20: Sc 43.
Row 21: (Sc 5, sc2tog) repeat 6 times, sc. (37 sts)
Row 22: (Sc 4, sc2tog) repeat 6 times, sc. (31 sts)
Row 23: (Sc 3, sc2tog) repeat 6 times, sc. (25 sts)
Row 24: (Sc 2, sc2tog) repeat 6 times, sc. (19 sts)
Row 25: (Sc 1, sc2tog) repeat 6 times, sc. (13 sts)
Row 26: Sc2tog, sc 11. (12 sts)
Stuff the ornament, making sure not to overstuff the bottom section.
Row 27: Sc 12.
Row 28: (2 sc in the next st) repeat 12 times. (24 sts)
Row 29: Sc 24.
Row 30: Sc 24.
Row 31: Sc2tog 12 times. (12 sts)
Row 31: Sc2tog 6 times. (6 sts)
Stuff the top section.
Row 31: Sc 6.
Row 32: Sc2tog, sc, sc2tog, sc, sl st 1. (4 sts) Tie off.
