Christmas Cookie Ornament

Hello! It’s Jennifer Ryan, the designer and blogger behind Celtic Knot Crochet. I am excited to be sharing the Christmas Cookie Ornament project here on the Clover blog! I enjoy the tradition of decorating Christmas cookies each year but sometimes it is sad to see your artwork get eaten. ? But with this crochet cookie design your project won’t disappear and it will look great on your Christmas tree for many years! Let’s get started. ?

 

MATERIALS:

• Medium weight acrylic yarn (one skein of each color will make many ornaments!)
  • brown gingerbread cookie color
  • white icing color
• Clover Amour Crochet Hook (3.75mm)
• Clover Stitch Markers
• Clover Jumbo Tapestry Needle
• optional:
  • 3/8” wide red ribbon
  • small amount of brown felt and hot glue gun/glue sticks

NOTES:

• skill level: easy
• finished measurements:  4” across from point to point
• gauge:  gauge is not necessary for this project

ABBREVIATIONS:

• yo: yarn over
• hk: hook
• lp: loop
• ch: chain
• st: stitch
• sl st: slip stitch
• dc:  double crochet
• sk: skip

SPECIAL STITCHES:

• Adjustable ring: Wrap yarn around hand to create a loop; pull working end of yarn through loop with hook;
• *Watch a short video tutorial of this technique here*
• Sc2tog (single crochet 2 together): (Insert hook into next st, YO, draw up a loop) twice, YO, pull through all 3 loops on hook
• *Watch a short video tutorial of this technique here*
• Join with a sc (join with a single crochet): With slip knot on hook, insert hook into stitch; YO, draw up a loop; YO, pull through 2 loops on hook
• *Watch a short video tutorial of this technique here*

 

PATTERN (star cookie shape):

• Round 1: With brown yarn work 10 sc in an adjustable ring – do not join to 1^st sc with a sl st.
• Round 2: [(Sc, ch 1, sc) in next st – mark ch-1 sp with a stitch marker; sc in next st] around; sl st to 1^st sc. (5 ch-1 sps marked with stitch markers)

• Now working in rows back and forth for each star point:
• Row 1: Sc in next ch-1 sp; sc in each of the next 3 sts; sc in next ch-1 sp; Turn. (5 sc)
• Row 2: Ch 1, Sc2tog over the next 2 sts, sc in next st, sc2tog over next 2 sts. Turn. (3 sc)
• Row 3: Ch 1, sc in each st across. Turn. (3 sc)
• Row 4: Ch 1, sc2tog over the 1^st and 2^nd st; sc2tog over the 2^nd and 3^rd st. Turn. (2 sts)
• Row 5: Ch 1, sc2tog over the 2 sts in row. Fasten off.

• Repeat Rows 1-5 in between all stitch markers marking ch-1 sps joining in 2^nd ch-1 sp of previous star point with a sc (this will replace the section marked with blue highlight above)
  • see “join with single crochet” definition in “special stitches” above

EDGING:

• With brown yarn work sc around entire star shape making sure to work (sc, ch 1, sc) in each point and a sl st in all ch-1 sps from Round 2

FINISHING/ASSEMBLY:

• icing edging:
  • With white yarn and working in the back loop only, join with sl st in any sl st of edging round; Work a sl st in each st around making sure to work (sl st, ch 1, sl st) at each point

ICING DETAILS:

• With tapestry needle, weave in all ends on Wrong Side of ornament
• With tapestry needle and white yarn, add icing details using photo as a guide
• First, work through center of cookie and add stitching to all angles between points
• Then, add stitching to all points again working through the center
• Lastly, add small angled stitches along longer lengths of stitching
• Weave in all ends
• optional:
  • Hot glue brown felt to “wrong side” of cookie
  • Attach a red ribbon hanger and bow with hot glue

Tada! Your Christmas Cookie Ornament is complete ? I hope you enjoy making this project! Please tag me @celticknotcrochet and use the #celticknotcrochet on Instagram – I would love to see your Christmas cookie ornaments!

 

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