No-Sew Christmas Tree · Free Crochet Pattern

With the holidays just around the corner, I'm thrilled to share with you the perfect little Christmas crochet pattern!

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The No-Sew Christmas Tree is a fun crochet pattern featuring a tall fir tree with a tree skirt. It is crocheted seamlessly in one piece, making it a relaxing project to work up without having to do any sewing. 

This mini tree is the perfect desk topper and decor for the winter holidays. It doubles up as a pincushion; inserted sewing pins will look like tiny ornaments! A truly lovely product to sell at Fall and Winter craft fairs and markets!

Decorating Your Tree

This crochet tree looks beautiful as-is in its natural state, but is also fun to decorate with mini accessories. Examples include:

• Mini bow appliques
• Beads and buttons for ornaments
• Glittery pipe cleaner or eyelash yarn for a garland
• Glitter for an enchanting and magical look
• White powder for a snowy and frosted look
• Sewing pins if you're using this tree as a pincushion! (Using pearlized sewing pins in mixed colors or single colors, would look gorgeous on your little tree)

Recommended Yarn

This free crochet pattern was designed using Hobbii's Tea Time Christmas yarn, which is a medium weight acrylic yarn. It features variegated shades of lighter and darker greens, working up beautifully to look like a real, natural tree! As you can see, I used the green color for the tree, and the red color for the tree skirt. The "star" was added on with Hobbii Friends Cotton 8/4 yarn.

With that said, you're welcome to use other types of yarns! To keep this tree small (about 4 inches in height), I recommend a medium weight acrylic or cotton yarn. You can also use bulkier plush yarn to make this tree larger! 

PDF Pattern

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Printable & ad-free PDF pattern

NO-SEW CHRISTMAS TREE

Free Amigurumi Crochet Pattern

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Pattern Info

Size:

Height: 4 inches

Level of Difficulty:

★★★☆☆ Intermediate. Requires familiarity with stitches used (below) and changing yarn colors.

Stitches/Terms Used:

• FO = fasten off
• YO = yarn over
• ch = chain
• sl st = slip stitch
• sc = single crochet
• inc = increase (insert 2 sc in same st)
• dec = decrease (sc 2 sts together)
• hdc = half double crochet
• dc = double crochet
• BLO = back loops only
• FLO = front loops only

Materials:

• Medium weight 4 yarn in desired colors (I used Tea Time Christmas yarn)
• 2.75mm crochet hook (I use these)
• Fiberfill stuffing
• Scissors
• Optional: decorations such as mini bow appliques, beads, buttons, eyelash yarn or glittery pipe cleaners, glitter, white powder, pearlized sewing pins, etc. (Please refer to the "decorating your tree" section above for more info!)

Crochet Instructions

Notes: 

• The free version of the pattern comes is written only and does not include photo references. If you'd like an ad-free printable version of the written pattern with photo references, please download the low-cost PDF pattern. (Thank you for supporting me as a pattern designer!)
• Construction: This pattern is crocheted from bottom-up to form the base, and then top-down to form the leaves. The tree skirt is made next, and finally the star is added at the top of the tree.

Part 1: Base

Start with green yarn for the tree.

R1: Insert 6 sc in a MR. Tighten the ring. (6)

R2: Inc around. (12)

R3: (Sc, inc) x 6. (18)

R4: (Sc 2, inc) x 6. (24)

R5: (Sc 3, inc) x 6. (30)

R6: (Sc 4, inc) x 6. (36)

Without FO, continue with the next part.

Part 2: Height

R1: Sc around in BLO. (36)

R2: (Sc 10, dec) x 3. (33)

R3: Sc around in BLO. (33)

R4: (Sc 9, dec) x 3. (30)

R5: Sc around in BLO. (30)

R6: (Sc 8, dec) x 3. (27)

R7: Sc around in BLO. (27)

R8: (Sc 7, dec) x 3. (24)

R9: Sc around in BLO. (24)

R10: (Sc 6, dec) x 3. (21)

R11: Sc around in BLO. (21)

Stuff firmly and continue stuffing as you work along.

R12: (Sc 5, dec) x 3. (18)

R13: Sc around in BLO. (18)

R14: (Sc 4, dec) x 3. (15)

R15: Sc around in BLO. (15)

R16: (Sc 3, dec) x 3. (12)

R17: Sc around in BLO. (12)

R18: (Sc 2, dec) x 3. (9)

R19: Sc around in BLO. (9)

R20: (Sc, dec) x 3. (6)

R21: Sc around in BLO. (6)

R22: Dec around. (3)

Without FO, continue with the next part.

Part 3: Leaves & Tree Skirt

Note: When you finish a round, simply insert your hook into the next unworked front loop in the next bolded round. For instance, after crocheting around the unworked front loops in R21, you will crochet into the unworked front loops in R19.

Make a ch and insert hook into the last unworked front loop created in R21. From here on out, we will work from top-down in a no-sew manner.

Repeat the following stitch sequences around in the unworked front loops of the indicated rounds:

On R21, R19, R17: Repeat (sl st in the first st, insert 3 hdc in the next st) around.

On R15, R13, R11: Repeat (sl st in the first st, hdc+dc+hdc in the next st) around.

On R9: Repeat (sl st in the first st, insert 3 dc in the next st) around.

On R7, R5: Alternate between a thinner leaf: (sl st in the first st, insert 3 dc in the next st), and a wider leaf: (sl st in the first st, insert 3 dc in each of the next 2 sts) around.

On R3: Repeat (sl st in the first st, insert 3 dc in each of the next 2 sts) around.

Switch to red yarn for the tree skirt.

On R1: Ch 2. (Dc 2, dc-inc) x 12. Join with a sl st to the first dc. (48)

Final round: Ch 2. (Dc 3, dc-inc) x 12. Join. (60)

FO and weave in the ends.

Part 4: Star

1. Insert hook under 2 sts in R22 (the top point of the tree). Pull yellow yarn through.
2. (YO, insert hook into the same st, YO, pull yarn through) x 3. YO and pull through all 7 loops on the hook.
3. Sl st back into the same st.
4. FO and weave in all ends. Congratulations on finishing!

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