Free Crochet Christmas Spinner Ornaments Pattern
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Decorate your home for the holidays with these festive Christmas spinner crochet ornament patterns, featuring three charming designs, including a cheerful snowman, jolly Santa, and Christmas tree that twirl and spin to add a playful handmade touch and a little Christmas magic to your holiday decor.
Welcome to my Christmas MCAL! Over the course of the crochet-along, I’ll be releasing a collection of free crochet patterns featuring festive and cheerful Christmas patterns. Each pattern will include a live tutorial, making it easy to crochet along while making handmade heirloom Christmas decorations!
The fifth free pattern is a set of crochet Christmas spinners – designed to add a fun and festive handmade touch to your holiday decor. This pattern features three designs: a snowman, Santa, and a Christmas tree. These crochet spinners twist and turn and bring lots of Christmas spirit and magic to your home. Whether you decide to hang them on your porch or somewhere in your home, you will love these cheerful wind spinners during the holiday season.
These crochet Christmas spinners are the perfect way to add some festive and jolly handmade touch to your home. You can pick one of these cheerful patterns, or make all three. You can get creative with your color choices or stick with your traditional holiday colors.
You can use these spinners to decorate your home, create a sweet handmade Christmas gift, or just make these for the simple joy of Christmas crochet! Come along with me and a community of crocheters as we continue the Crochet Christmas MCAL!
Ready to start stitching your very own Christmas spinner ornaments?
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So, let me now give you the supplies you need in order to crochet this fun project.
Free Crochet Christmas Spinner Ornaments Pattern
Materials you will need
- WeCrochet Brava Yarn (100g) – Worsted (#4) yarn
- Red
- White
- Cream
- Canary
- Green
- Asphalt Heather
- Orange
- 4.0 mm hook
- Scissors
- tapestry needle
- Polyfill
- Plastic canvas
- 22 gauge wire and wire cutters
- Plastic eyes
- Optional: stickers for tree, ornaments on the bottom
Gauge
5 sts x 5 rows = 1 square inch
Size
14 x 2.5 inches
Stitches used in the pattern
Learn all the basic crochet stitches HERE (US crochet terms and abbreviations)
- st/sts = stitch/stitches
- ch = chain
- sc = single crochet
- dc = double crochet
- Inc = increase
- Dec = decrease
- Flo = front loop only
- Blo = back loop only
Live Video Tutorial
The live video tutorial for the crochet Christmas spinner pattern will be on 10/13/2026 at 12 pm PT. The replay will be available after the event, but you will want to be there for the live if you can, because it will be a ton of fun.
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Free Crochet Christmas Spinner Ornaments Pattern – Written Instructions
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Wind Spinner uses wire for stability.
Santa
Santa Hat
In Red
R1: MR, 6 sc, close the ring, continue in continuous rounds
R2: 1 sc per st
R3: (1 sc, 2 sc) x 3
R4: 1 sc per st
R5: (1 sc in 2 sts, 2 sc) x 3
R6:1 sc per st
R7:(1 sc in 3 sts, 2 sc) x 3
R8:1 sc per st
R9:(1 sc in 4 sts, 2 sc) x 3
R10: 1 sc per st
R11:(1 sc in 5 sts, 2 sc) x 3
R12: 1 sc per st
Change to White
R13: In FLO (1 sc in 6 sts, 2 sc) x 3 (BLO will be used later to sew hat to head)
R14: 1 sc per st
R15: (1 sc in 3 sts, 2 sc) x 6
R16: (hdc, sc) x 12
Head:
In Cream
R1: MR, 6 sc, close the ring, continuous rounds
R2: 2 sc per st
R3: (1 sc, 2 sc) x 6
R4: (1 sc in 2 sts, 2 sc) x 6
R5: (1 sc in 3 sts, 2 sc) x 6
R6-7: 1 sc in each (30 sc)
R8: 10 sc, 10 sc blo, 10 sc
R9: (1 sc in 3 sts, inv sc dec) x 6
R10: (1 sc in 2 sts, inv sc dec) x 6
Add Eyes
R11: (1 sc in 1 sts, inv sc dec) x 6
R12: (inv sc dec) x 6
Eyes: 8mm
Add between rounds 5 & 6 approx 4 stitches apart. Center with blo stitches in R8.
Beard:
In white:
10 sc into R8 flo of face, turn
In back loop – Dec, 6 sc, dec, turn
In front loop – Dec, 4 sc, dec, turn
In back loop – Dec, 2 sc, dec, turn
In front loop – Dec, dec, turn
In back loop – Dec
Mustache:
In white:
Ch 7
sl st, sc, hdc, hdc, sc, sl st
Between hdc, sew running stitch from chain to top of stitch to cinch in, sew onto face above center of beard and between eyes
Scarf for the Santa
Start in red, alternate red & white, finish with red
Ch 5, turn
1 sc per st, ch 1, turn
Change colors every 2 rows for 46 rows (23 stripes total), add white fringe at the end, sew onto the neck.
Spiral for ALL (just colors different)
In White
Ch 81
R1: Holding wire against chain, 80 sc starting in second ch from hook over top of wire
Change to Green or Red
R2-4: ch1, turn, 80 sc
Change to White
R5: ch1, turn, holding wire against R4, 80 sc
Fasten off, leaving tail to sew to bottom of head or tree
Christmas Tree
Star:
In Canary
R1: Make a magic ring, ch 1, add to the ring this repeat 5 times: (2 sc’s, ch 1), sl st
R2: *ch3, 1 sc in the 2nd ch from the hook, sk 1 st, 1 hdc in the next st (in R1, not in the ch3), sl st to the next ch sp that was created during round 1, repeat from * a total of 5 times, sl st to the 1st st, fasten off.
Fasten off, leave tail for sewing onto tree top
Christmas Tree:
In Green:
R1: MR, 6 sc, close the ring, continuous rounds
R2: 1 sc per st
R3: (1 sc, 2 sc) x 3
R4: 1 sc per st
R5: (1 sc in 2 sts, 2 sc) x 3
R6: 1 sc per st
R7: (1 sc in 3 sts, 2 sc) x 3
R8: 1 sc per st
R9: (1 sc in 4 sts, 2 sc) x 3
R10: 1 sc per st
R11: (1 sc in 5 sts, 2 sc) x 3
R12: 1 sc per st
R13: (1 sc in 6 sts, 2 sc) x 3
R14: 1 sc per st
R15: (1 sc in 7 sts, 2 sc) x 3
R16: 1 sc per st
R17: (1 sc in 8 sts, 2 sc) x 3
R18: 1 sc per st
R19: (1 sc in 9 sts, 2 sc) x 3
R20: 1 sc per st
R21: (1 sc in 10 sts, 2 sc) x 3 (36 sts total)
R22: all stitches in BLO, (dec, 4 sc) x 6
R23: (dec, 3 sc) x 6
R24: (dec, 2 sc) x 6
R25: (dec, 1 sc) x 6
R26: (dec) x 6, fasten off, sew on the spiral.
Optional decorate with stickers as ornaments.
Snowman
Snowman Hat:
In Asphalt Heather:
R1: MR, 6 sc, close the ring, continuous rounds
R2: 2 sc per st
R3: (1 sc, 2 sc) x 6
R4: (1 sc in 2 sts, 2 sc) x 6
Another round of increases??? Not sure, it depends on the head “ball” size.
R5: in blo, 1 sc per st
R6-10: 1 sc per st
Change to Red
R11 & 12: 1 sc per st
Not sure how many rounds, but last 2 need to be in red
Change to Asphalt Heather
R13: In FLO, (1 sc in 3 sts, 2 sc) x 6 (BLO will be used later to sew hat to head)
R14: (1 sc in 4 sts, 2 sc) x 6
R15: (1 sc in 5 sts, 2 sc) x 6
Head:
In White
R1: MR, 6 sc, close the ring, continuous rounds
R2: 2 sc per st
R3: (1 sc, 2 sc) x 6
R4: (1 sc in 2 sts, 2 sc) x 6
R5: (1 sc in 3 sts, 2 sc) x 6
R6-7: 1 sc in each (30 sc)
R8: 10 sc, 10 sc blo, 10 sc
R9: (1 sc in 3 sts, inv sc dec) x 6
R10: (1 sc in 2 sts, inv sc dec) x 6
Add Eyes
R11: (1 sc in 1 sts, inv sc dec) x 6
R12: (inv sc dec) x 6
Eyes: 8mm
Add between rounds 5 & 6 approx 4 stitches apart.
Nose:
In Orange
Ch 4, in second chain from the hook, sl, sc, HDC
Sew to face, centering with eyes
Embroider mouth with Asphalt Heather
Scarf
Start in red, alternate red & green, finish with red
Ch 5, turn
1 sc per st, ch 1, turn
Change colors every 2 rows for 46 rows (23 stripes total), add green fringe at the end
Sew on scarf and the spiral.
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