FREE Christmas Tree Decoration Knitting Patterns

Is your tree looking a bit bare? Could you do with a couple more decorations for it? Then look no further. These knitting patterns are dead simple and very quick, and will add a touch of homemade glamour to your tree in no time. I wrote these patterns for the children's knitting club that I run at my local school. The children loved making them. I hope you do too!

Christmas Tree

Materials
Oddments of DK green yarn
Oddments of DK brown yarn
10 coloured beads
4/4.5mm knitting needles
Two darning needles, one with a big eye and one with a small eye
Some thinner green thread

Tension
Tension is not important in this pattern. Follow the tension on your ball band for an even finish.

Finished Measurements
Approx 6.5cm wide x 5.5cm high

Tree Instructions
Cast on 14 sts using the green yarn.

Foundation Row: Knit
Row 1: Skpo, k to end. 13 sts
Repeat row 1 until 2 sts remain.

Cast off. Cut yarn leaving a long thread. Thread yarn onto a darning needle and create a loop for hanging on the tree:

1. Insert darning needle into tip of tree, pulling through so that the needle comes out the other side but most of the yarn is still in a loop.
2. Insert the darning needle through the loop you have created, back to the other side and through again, holding the loop with your finger as you do so, so that the yarn does not pull through. 

1. Keep the loop taut, pull the yarn tight to create a knot at the top of the tree.

Using a thinner piece of thread, or separate your yarn into two thinner threads, thread a smaller eyed needle and sew the beads in place at regular intervals up the sides of your tree.

Trunk Instructions
Cast on 5 sts using your brown yarn.
Knit 5 rows. Cast off.
Sew trunk in place at centre of bottom of tree.

Making up
Sew beads in place along diagonal edges of tree.

Christmas Trees knitted by the children at my local school

Christmas Stocking Tree Decoration

Materials
Oddments of DK green yarn
Oddments of DK red yarn
4/4.5mm knitting needles
darning needle

Tension
Tension is not important in this pattern. Follow the tension on your ball band for an even finish.

Finished Measurements
Approx 3.5cm wide x 5.5cm high

Stocking instructions
Cast on 14 sts using your red yarn.
Knit 4 rows.
Change to your green yarn and knit 4 rows.
Repeat the last 8 rows once more (one stripe of red and one stripe of green).
Change to your red yarn and knit 4 rows.
Cast off.

Making Up
Fold your work in half edge to edge. Sew up the bottom and the side seam using back stitch or running stitch and your red yarn. Thread your green yarn on the darning needle and oversew the seam until you get to the bottom green stripe. Insert the needle into the next green stripe and work a stitch. Pull yarn tightly which will cause the work to fold and create an ‘L’ shape in the knitting. Secure with an extra stitch and fasten off. Turn your work around to the right side and create a hanging loop as for the Christmas Tree Decoration. See pictures below for help if you are getting stuck.

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Thread your needle

Fold work over RS tog and sew up seam

Create a hanging loop at top

Pull seam together between two green stripes to create shape

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