Just add a few more picots to the Fern pattern in Crochet Bouquet, and you have a Christmas tree motif to embellish cards or garments, or home accessories.
I made the tree motif in a light worsted weight yarn and decorated it with red buttons, for a Christmas table mat. For a Christmas card, crochet the tree with bedspread cotton, glue to a blank card, and decorate with sequins or beads.
To crochet the tree, turn to the Fern pattern on pages 110-111 of Crochet Bouquet. First, crochet the pattern as written, so you get the hang of how the leaf is constructed.
Notice how the lower leaflets of the Fern each have two pairs of picots plus a cluster of three picots at the end.
To make the Christmas Tree motif, work as for Fern, except
- Add two extra pairs of picots to the Bottom leaflets. Look at the photo to see the extra picot pairs.
- Add one extra pair of picots to the Next-to-Bottom leaflets. Again, look at the photo. It will help you figure out what to do.
Mat with Crocheted Christmas Tree
You will need:
- Crochet Bouquet
- Worsted weight yarn, green
- Small amount of metallic gold yarn
- Crochet hooks to give a firm gauge with the chosen yarns
- One package of Kunin’s Shaggy Plush Felt, cream color
- Sewing thread and needle
- Small red buttons to decorate tree
- Trim for edges of felt, like gold braid, rick-rack, or buttons (shown)
- With green yarn, crochet a Christmas tree motif, using the altered Fern leaf from Crochet Bouquet (see instructions above).
- With metallic yarn, crochet a Baby Star from page 26 of Crochet Bouquet.
- Cut the felt in half to make two pieces approximately 17-1/2 x 11-1/2″ each.
- Arrange tree and star on felt and sew in place.
- Sew red buttons on the tree to resemble decorations.
- Add trim around edges of felt.
- Save the other half of the felt to make a Poinsettia Mat (nstructions in the next post).