Christmas Tree Decorations

Our Christmas tree this year was covered in little decorations I had crocheted, finding little free patterns all over the internet. I taught myself to crochet because it's much easier to find these little crocheted decorations than knitted ones. My favourite is this little snowman, taken from the little holiday ornaments on the Patons site. He was very easy (and cheap) to crochet in some scraps of acrylic wool and only took me just over a day.

Our tree was also covered in a range of various little decorations, most notably a little angel , snowflakes and a log basket filled with cinnamon sticks.

I also made a couple of crochet decoration presents, a cute reindeer head for my mum and this pretty little angel for my grandma. The angel's wings turned out a little longer on one side than the other, not sure if that was a problem with my counting or the pattern, however I don't think my grandma noticed.

I found all of these decoration patterns at the Christmas decoration section of Crochet Pattern Central, a good source of free crochet pattern links.

Christmas Stocking

I went a bit Christmas decorations crazy last year, having a whole flat of my own to decorate for the first time, I made a lot of little knitted and crochet decorations the biggest project of which was my Christmas stocking.I found this pattern in the free patterns on the Patons site and knitted it in a cheap acrylic wool. I couldn't find a good gold-like colour for the contrast diamonds so they aren't very noticeable here, although they show up much better to the naked eye. The top seemed to be much longer than it should and due to time restrictions I decided to only knit it half the length it should be and stretch it out a little, I still think it looks pretty nice. I couldn't find any little bells for the edging but may be able to find some to add for next year. Am also planning to knit a second stocking in green next year so that I have a pair for either side of the fireplace.