Listen & Craft: Festive Crocheted Wreaths

If you’re anything like me, you spend the whole year looking forward to the holiday season—the lights, the warm drinks, the festive cheer—only to realize you’re sorely lacking in decorations once the time finally arrives. When I came to this realization this year, I knew that I had to whip up something fast (especially considering I had friends coming over this weekend for a holiday movie marathon)! With some crochet knowledge, a good deal of trial and error, and an audiobook to keep me company, I came up with the following pattern for a miniature wreath.

What You’ll Need:

• A piece of scrap yarn (any color)
• A cylinder about the width you want the hole of your wreath to be (I used a bottle of facial cleanser)
• Green yarn
• Red yarn
• White yarn
• A 4 mm crochet hook
• A stitch marker
• A darning needle
• A festive audiobook (I recommend The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose. In this very merry mystery novella, Molly the maid must solve a Christmas caper at the Regency Grand Hotel!)

Pattern:

1. Wrap your piece of scrap yarn around your chosen cylinder. Tie a double knot to secure your ring of yarn in place.

2. Starting with your green yarn, make a slip stitch to secure your yarn to your ring. Then, double crochet around (for me, this took 35 double crochet).

3. Slip stitch into the first stitch of the round. Then, make half double crochet around to build out your wreath.

4. Switch to your white yarn. Slip stitch into the first stitch in the round. Then, repeat the following pattern around: make a single crochet, make a double crochet in the same stitch, make a single crochet in the same stitch, skip a stitch.

5. Slip stitch into the first stitch in the round. Chain 26, slip stitch into the same stitch, cut the yarn, and tie off.

6. Finally, using your red yarn and darning needle, sew small red spots throughout (spaced about six stitches apart). These are your “ornaments.” Add a bow at the top and tie off.

Quick and easy to make, this wreath is a great ornament for your tree or miniature decoration for your home.