Free pattern for the festive Christmas tree scrunchie

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The scrunchie is a cosy little Christmas project that is good for both leftover yarn and new yarn. There's plenty of opportunity to make your Christmas tree scrunchie exactly how you want, as the lantern colours make a big difference to the expression.

Materials:

• Yarn:Infinity Hearts Rose 8/4. Contains 100% cotton. 50 grams = approx. 176 metres
• Circular needle size 3.5 (40 cm)
• Crochet hook size 3.5
• Ordinary hair elastic without metal collection
• Needle to fasten ends with

Yarn consumption:

• Infinity Hearts Rose in colour 21 Dark red

• Infinity Hearts Rose in colour 156 Green
• Infinity Hearts Rose in colour 179 Yellow
• Infinity Hearts Rose in colour 01 Black
• Infinity Hearts Rose in colour 81 Light blue

Abbreviations

dc = double crochet(s)

sl = slip stitch(s)

Instructions

Pattern for Christmas lights

Cast on 110 sts on circular needle size 3.5 mm in green.

Work in stocking stitches around until the piece measures 16 cm (can be worked shorter or longer as desired).

Leave stitches on circular needle while working pattern.

Now you need to crochet the Christmas chain onto the piece

To do this, cut a piece of black yarn 50 cm long. Attach the yarn to the piece and work dc around the right side in the pattern you want. If necessary, see the video instructions above.

If the piece of yarn is not long enough, you can cut a new piece and crochet in continuation of the first one.

Remember to work wide all the way from the top to the bottom and around - you may be inspired by the pattern in the picture below:

When you are happy with the chain, crochet the lights on

It is done in the same way as the chain by cutting a piece of yarn of the desired colour.

Attach the yarn to the piece where you want the first light.

Workaround with approx. 7 dc, finish with a sl in the middle and pull the rest of the yarn through. Now bring the yarn wrong side out to where you want the next light in the same colour. Repeat until you have the desired number of lights. If you run out of yarn along the way, you can easily cut a new piece and simply tie the two together on the back, as this will not be visible.

Repeat until you have all the lights you want in all the colours you want.

Now close the scrunchie around the hair elastic

If you want, watch the tutorial video above.

Turn the wrong side out and put the hair elastic around. Now fold up the cast-on edge so that you have the right side out and the cast-on edge close to the open stitches on the circular needle.

Now work the two edges together.

To do this, pick up the first cast-on stitch on the left needle and knit it together with the first stitch of the round. Now repeat with 2nd st on cast on edge and 2nd st on the round. Pull the 1st st over the 2nd st to cast off.

Repeat until you have knitted the edges together and closed all stitches.

Designed by: @krea_lea Please share photos of your finished pattern using #christmastreescrunchie and #ritokrea. Also, feel free to tag @krea_lea and @ritohobby.co.uk