A Crocheted Christmas tree

Today it’s the second of Advent, and I wanted to share something a bit more christmassy. It’s a little green Christmas tree that I crocheted. I used a itchy wool yarn that I don’t like using in skin-close clothes like scarfs or wrist-warmers. But this little thing is just for display, so it doesn’t matter if the wool is not very soft.

I’m not sure I followed the pattern very closely, but it turned out okay even though it took for ever to finish the last rows close to the base.

The pattern that I used (Mönster på virkad julgran by blogger Åsa Bautovic, Bauta Witch) is in Swedish, but if you scroll down through the comments on her site someone has provided a translation to English there. If you are a beginner, I think that a simpler version (like the Crochet Christmas Tree – a free pattern) might be better to start with, but I haven’t tried that one so I don’t know for sure.

I was very inspired by my my blog friend Susanne Randers in Denmark, who has made an entire display of different colored trees that she brings out in December I think. When I saw them on her instagram a few years ago, I decided to copy her idea. So far I only have the one single tree finished, but who knows? It might become a mighty forest before I am too old to see what I am crocheting… or not.

You might also enjoy how I created a pink Christmas wreath a few years ago:

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