How to Make a Crochet Gingerbread Village Wreath
Discover how to create this adorable crochet gingerbread village wreath with the help of our pattern guide. Made using some of our favourite yarns at Hobbycraft, this wreath design is cute, contemporary, and colourful, and will be like nothing you've ever crocheted before!
Perfect to create for the festive season, you’ll be able to display this beautiful crochet gingerbread wreath with pride on your front door for all your neighbours to see!
Project and instructions by Hobbycraft Artisan Natalie Beard
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You will also need:
* Yarn needle
* Scissors
* Hot melt glue gun and glue sticks
* Small amount of toy stuffing
How to make
Tension:
Work an even fairly tight tension throughout.
Finished size:
Finished size of the wreath measures approximately 41cm by 41cm
Gingerbread House:
Make 9 houses in the following colours, Sage, Tangerine, Yellow, Lilac, Rose, Mocha, Cornflower, Pink, Aqua.
Make 1x front and 1x back of the Gingerbread house in the same colour. You will need to make 9x fronts and 9x backs for each house.
Ch11
R1. 1dc in the 2nd ch from hook, 9dc, turn (10dc)
R2-10. Ch1 (does not count as st), 10dc, turn (10dc)
R11. Ch1 (does not count as st), dec, 6dc, dec, turn (8dc)
R12. Ch1 (does not count as st), 8dc, turn (8dc)
R13. Ch1 (does not count as st), dec, 4dc, dec, turn (6dc)
R14. Ch1 (does not count as st), 6dc, turn (6dc)
R15. Ch1 (does not count as st), dec, 2dc, dec, turn (4dc)
R16. Ch1 (does not count as st), 4dc, turn (4dc)
R17. Ch1 (does not count as st), 2dec, turn (2dc)
R18. Ch1 (does not count as st), 2dc, turn (2dc)
R19. Ch1 (does not count as st), dec, turn (1dc)
Fasten off and sew in the ends. When you have made 1x front and 1x back in the same colour yarn, put them on top of each other (RS facing out) and you will now work through both pieces to crochet shut.
White
R20. Working in the 1st corner, along the bottom edge. 2dc in the 1st st, 8dc, 2dc in the next corner, work 9dc in the side posts of the Gingerbread house. The roof, work (1dc, bbl) 3times, 1dc, 3dc into the point of the roof, work (1dc, bbl) 3times down the other side of the roof, 1dc. You will now need to start to lightly stuff your house, now work 9dc in the side posts of the final side of the house.
Fasten off and sew in the ends.
Ch3
R1. 1dc in the 2nd ch from hook, 1dc, turn (2dc)
R2. Ch1 (does not count as st), 2dc (2dc)
Fasten off leaving a long tail to sew to the house.
Ch4
R1. 1dc in the 2nd ch from hook, 2dc, turn (3dc)
R2-3. Ch1 (does not count as st), 3dc (3dc)
Fasten off leaving a long tail to sew to the house.
Work the 1st row in Pistachio, 2nd row in White and the work tow 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15-20 in Pistachio. Work all other rows in White.
Pistachio
Mc
R1.6dc in mc (6dc)
White
R2. 1dc in each st (6dc)
Pistachio
R3. [1dc, inc] 3times (9dc)
White
R4. 1dc in each st (9dc)
Pistachio
R5. [2dc, inc] 3times (12dc)
White
R6. 1dc in each st (12dc)
Pistachio
R7. [3dc, inc] 3times (15dc)
White
R8. 1dc in each st (15dc)
Pistachio
R9. [4dc, inc] 3times (18dc)
White
R10. 1dc in each st (18dc)
Pistachio
R11. [5dc, inc] 3times (21dc)
White
R12. 1dc in each st (21dc)
Pistachio
R13. [6dc, inc] 3times (24dc)
White
R14. 1dc in each st (24dc)
Fasten off White and continue to work with Pistachio.
R15. BLs [2dc, dec] 6times (18dc)
Start to stuff with fibre filling.
R16. [1dc, dec] 6times (12dc)
R17. [dec] 6times (6dc)
Fasten off Pistachio and join Mocha.
R18. FLs 1dc in each st around (6dc)
R19-20. 1dc in each st around (6dc)
Fasten off and sew shut.
Pistachio Repeat
R1-14 of the Stripe Christmas Tree pattern in Pistachio yarn only and work in BLs for every Row.
Continue to repeat R15-20 of the Stripe Christmas Tree.
For the Texture, work [2dc] in each FL on R1-14.
Fasten off and sew in the ends.
Yellow
Mc
R1. [1dc, picot] in the mc 5times, slst in the 1st dc.
Fasten off and sew in the ends.
Make x7 in a selection of different colours.
Mc
R1. Work 6dc in the mc (6dc)
You will work White and Pink yarn, do not fasten of either colour after the colour change.
White
Mc
R1. Work 6dc in the mc (6dc)
R2-4. 1dc in each st around (6dc)
Pink
R5-6. 1dc in each st around (6dc)
Start to lightly stuff with fibre filling.
White
R7-10. 1dc in each st around (6dc)
Pink
R11-12. 1dc in each st around (6dc)
White
R13-16. 1dc in each st around (6dc)
Pink
R17-18. 1dc in each st around (6dc)
White
R19-22. 1dc in each st around (6dc)
Pink
R23-24. 1dc in each st around (6dc)
White
R25-28. 1dc in each st around (6dc)
Fasten off and sew shut.
Pistachio
Ch50
R1. 1slst in the 2nd ch from hook, 48slst (49slst)
Fasten off and sew in the ends. Tie a bow and sew to the Candy Canes.
Cream
Mc
R1. Ch3 (counts as 1st tr), 11tr in mc (12tr)
R2. 2tr in each st around (24tr)
Fasten off here for small round.
R3. [1tr, 2tr in the next st] 12times (36tr)
Fasten off here for medium round.
R4. [2tr, 2tr in the next st] 12times (48tr)
Fasten off here for large round.
R5. [3tr, 2tr in the next st] 12times (60tr)
Fasten off here for extra-large round.
Sew in your ends.
For the surface crochet, use a contrasting colour and work between each row. Alternatively, you can embroider using a chain stitch between each row.
Fasten off and sew in the ends.
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