FREE Flat Crochet Christmas Tree Appliqué Pattern – Video
Make this Cute Flat Crochet Christmas Tree Ornament using basic crochet stitches with this simple free pattern! This fun project for a Little Christmas Tree is a perfect way to use up some scrap yarn and get ready for this Christmas Season. So grab your yarn and crochet hook to get started making lots of little trees for gift wrapping or home decor!
If you are a visual learner be sure to check out the video tutorial that I created on how to crochet this easy project!
Cute Crochet Trees
So you stumbled across this free crochet pattern for the holiday season and you are maybe wondering what exactly you can use these Small Flat Christmas Trees for. Well, I have ideas for all the way you can use this easy fun pattern!
Flat Christmas Trees like these can be used in so many creative ways for this festive season!
You could make a whole bunch of them be used as crochet Christmas Tree Ornaments! How Cute would they be if you made them with white or cream yarn so they look like little snowy trees! You can even sew on some beads to create the effect of little lights!
String them together to create a Christmas Tree Garland for your mantle to had a handmade touch to your holiday home decor!
These little trees would make great gift tags for a bottle of wine for all of your holiday party invites!
I love a good amigurumi tree but that style of crochet hurts my hand. You could make a faux amigurumi tree by sewing two of these cute flat trees together and stuffing them. Then you would have a cute plushy Crochet Christmas Tree!
Use this Flat Christmas Tree to spread some Christmas Cheer by adding them into your present decorations! Add them with some ribbon to your wrapped boxes for perfect gift tags!
Maybe have some fun and do different colors for each of your kids and they have to find their gifts according to their favorite colors!
About This Flat Christmas Tree Crochet Pattern
This free pattern was designed using Local Grown Cotton, a CYC 4 worsted weight yarn, but you can use any yarn you want!
To make this small tree we will begin at the top of the tree and work our way down with increases on every other row. This will slowly increase the base and height of the little trees so you can do as many row repeats as you would like until your flat Christmas tree is the size you desire!
This simple crochet Christmas tree is an easy skill level pattern that only uses a few basic crochet stitches and is suitable for beginner crocheters. So if you can make chains, STsc, Half Double Crochet and Back Loop Only (blo) Slip Stitch, all US Terms, then you can make this great pattern!
The Stacked Single Crochet (STsc) is very easy, you basically create a single crochet as normal and then create another onto top for added height to match the half double crochete. This makes for a very clean edge on your flat little tree!
Flat Christmas Tree in Different Sizes
This easy pattern can be adapted to use any yarn weight and hook combo you have on hand to create a variety of sizes! Here’s how:
Choose the yarn you would like to use and the appropriate hook size. Follow the pattern as written and add or subtract row repeats to reach you desired size!.
BE sure to leave long enough ends so that you can weave them in easily with you yarn needle.
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Materials
- 4.50 mm Crochet Hook
- #4 Worsted Weight Yarn – scraps
- Color A for the Tree
- Color B for the Stump (Tree Trunk)
Gauge
- 10 sts by 8 rows in pattern repeat is is 2 by 2 inches.
- If you are following this pattern exactly with the suggested hook and yarn combo than your little tree (without the tree trunk) will measure 4.25″ down the side and 3.5″ across the base.
Sizing
- One Size but Adjustable: 4.25″ tall by 3.5″ at the base without the tree trunk. Add or subtract as many rows as you would like to great any size flat tree.
Stitch Descriptions and Abbreviations
- Chain Stitch – ch
- Slip Stitch – sl st
- Stitch(es) – st(s)
- Skip – sk
- Half Double Crochet – hdc
- Back Loop Only – bro – work the stitch as you normally would while only using the back loop.
- Stacked Single Crochet Stitch – STsc – insert your hook into the designated stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through both loops, insert your hook into the second vertical bar on the stitch you just created, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull though all loops.
Pattern Notes
- * Designates a repeat.
- “sc 1” means to single crochet in the next stitch.
- “sc 2” means to single crochet in each of the next 2 stitches.
- “2 sc” means to single crochet twice in the next stitch to create an increase.
- Increases are made on Half Double Crochet Rows.
- Slip Stitch rows do not increase.
Cutest Flat Crochet Christmas Trees Pattern
Using Color A
Row 1– Ch 3, 3 hdc in third chain from hook. [3 sts]
Row 2 – Ch 1, turn, blo sl st across. [3 sts]
Row 3 – Turn, (STsc, hdc) blo in first st, sl st blo, 2 hdc in last st. [5 sts]
Row 4 – Ch 1, turn, blo sl st across. [5 sts]
Row 5 – Turn, (STsc, hdc) blo in first st, sl st blo until 1 st remains, 2 hdc in last st. [7 sts]
Row 6 – Ch 1, turn, blo sl st across. [7 sts]
Rows 7 to 16 – Repeat Rows 5 and 6 with every hdc row increasing by 2 sts, finish off.
If you would like your tree bigger continue repeating Rows 5 and 6 until your flat tree is the size you would like.
Add a Stump (Tree Trunk) to your Flat Christmas Tree.
Using Color B if you finished on the final row with 17 sts, count over 6 sts, place your hook in the 7th st and draw up a loop.
Row 1 – Sl st 5.
Row 2 to 4 – Turn, sl st blo across, finish off.
If you do more or less rows to change the size of your flat Christmas tree you can adjust the size of your stump (tree trunk), just find the center and make it proportional.
I hope you enjoyed making these cute flat trees, I know I really did! Time for me to go make some more crochet Christmas ornaments!
