Christmas tree double bauble ornament

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Christmas ornaments, baubles, Christmas bulbs or Christmas bubbles or Christmas ball balls are decorations, usually made of blown glass, metal, wood, blown plastics, expanded polystyrene, ceramics or CROCHETED in my case, that are used to festoon, decorate a Christmas tree.

The stitches used to make the crochet Christmas bulb are a chain stitch, a single crochet stitch, an increase stitch (2sc in 1) and a decrease stitch (sc tog 2) and a slip stitch.

If you will be doing them in rows, you will use a slip stitch to join a row and a chain to start a new row. It is easy and fast to make and with two different ways of crocheting them.

Different sizes of crochet hooks and yarn can give you different sizes of crochet baubles.

In the video tutorial I am using some metallic silver thread. Just to give it some sparkle.

You can make the bubbles in two different ways. Ether continuous rounds or in rows.

Pattern:

sc – single crochet stitch

inc – increase single crochet stitch – make 2sc in 1

dec – decrease single crochet stitch – joining 2 stitches in 1

ch – chain stitch

sl st – slip stitch

If you are doing it in continuous rounds you just crochet and don't loose count. But if you are doing it in rows don't forget to do a ch1 in the beginning of the row and a slip stitch to join the last stitch with the beginning of the row.

To avoid the seam of the rounds joining make sure to:

• forget all that you learned about crocheting in rows and

• make a chain one in the beginning and pull it tight to make it as small as possible

• make the first stitch in the same stitch where you make the chain one

• the pull the slip stitch at the end when joining the row really tightly

I learned this from... I lost the link but I know the lady was saying all the time “Forget what you know”, “pull tight”, “start where you finished”. I will try to find it.

The pattern is the same for both ways.

Start with a magic ring

R1: 4sc – 4st

R2: {sc, inc} x2 – 6st

R3: 6sc – 6st

R4: 6sc – 6st

R5: 6sc – 6st

R6: {sc, inc} x3 – 9st

R7: 9sc – 9st

R8: {sc, sc, inc} x3 – 12st

R9: {sc, inc} x6 – 18st

R10: {sc, sc, inc} x6 – 24st

R11: 24sc – 24st

R12: 24sc – 24st

R13: 24sc – 24st

R14: {sc, sc, dec} x6 – 18st

R15: {sc, dec} x6 – 12st

half way through R15 you should stuff or fill the Christmas bauble

R16: {dec} x6 – 6st

this is the first bauble done. Now for the second, larger one:

R17: 6sc – 6st

R18: {inc} x6 – 12st

R19: {sc, inc} x6 – 18st

R20: {sc, sc, inc} x6 – 24st

R21: {sc, sc, sc, inc} x6 – 30st

R22: {sc, sc, sc, sc, inc} x6 – 36st

R23: 36sc – 36st

R24: 36sc – 36st

R25: 36sc – 36st

R26: 36sc – 36st

R27: {sc, sc, sc, sc, dec} x6 – 30st

R28: {sc, sc, sc, dec} x6 – 24st

R29: {sc, sc, dec} x6 – 18st

R30: {sc, dec} x6 – 12st

half way through R30 you should stuff or fill the Christmas bauble

R31: {dec} x6 – 6st

Cut the yarn and pull it through. Now get a sewing needle and sew together just the front loops of R31. Pull tight and sew in the loose end.

Change colors.

Top part:

I changed the color to green

R1: 6sc – 6st

R2: {inc} x6 – 12st

R3: 12sc – 12st

Cut the yarn and join. Sew the piece on top of the bauble.

You can find both ways of crocheting these Christmas bauble ornament in my YouTube channel video tutorials:

Continuous rounds:

Rows:

Happy crafting

Alex xx