Christmas Cookie Ornament

Clover Needlecraft

5 months ago

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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