Advent Wreath for Christmas – Free Crochet Pattern
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The Advent Wreath is a free crochet pattern with 6 video tutorials and is perfect for the Christmas and Holiday season.
It is almost Christmas time which means everyone will decorate their homes. In Europe and in many other parts of the world, one specific tradition is very important and makes every child excited for Christmas even more which is the Advent Wreath which for I made a free crochet pattern for.
Before I provide you with the pattern, let me explain to you the history of the advent wreath and how it is used. The Advent Wreath has 4 candles which are lit one by one each Sunday in the 4 weeks before Christmas Eve. The candles specifically symbolize the Christian concepts of hope (week one), peace (week two), joy (week three) and love (week four) in many traditions.
Sometimes the Advent Wreath comes with a 5th candle in the middle that is lit on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, although not many families use the 5th candle, at least I do not know anyone used one while I grew up in Germany. If you would like to read more of this wonderful tradition, please click HERE.
So, if you would check out a European calendar you would see that the 4 weeks of Advent are actually written on every Sunday before Christmas Eve. Lighting the candles on a Advent Wreath made the kids very excited because they knew how many more weeks they have to wait till they can finally open their presents.
I always enjoyed this tradition and still use it in my family here in the United States. In fact, one of the first things I made when I came to the U.S. was a Advent wreath with pine needles and decorations plus the 4 candles all around.
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Well, let me now show you how you can crochet your own Advent Wreath. This Advent Wreath comes with many pictures and 6 videos showing you every part of this pattern. Therefore this pattern is very very long.
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How to Crochet an Advent Wreath
You will need (click to see which ones I used)
- Lion Brand Heartland yarn
- 2 skeins of Kings Canyon (136-180)
- 2 skeins of Redwood (136-113)
- 1 skein of Sequoia (136-126)
- 1 skein of Yellowstone (136-158)
- 1 skein of Mesa Verde (136-172)
- FloralCraft Styrofoam Vase Insert
- Styrofoam Floral Wreath, white, 18 inches
- Flameless Tealight candles (4)
- 5.0mm hook
- scissors
- tapestry needle
Stitches used, in US terms
- dc = double crochet
- sc = single crochet
- loop stitch
- magic ring
- dec = decrease
- inc = increase
- ch = chain
- sl st = slip stitch
- hdc = half double crochet
- BLO = back loop only
Final Sizes
Advent Wreath: 18 x 10 inches (2.5 inches without add-ons)
Candle: 6.5 x 3 inches
Pinecone: 3 x 2.5 inches
Holly: 5 x 5 inches
Star: 2 x 2 inches
Bow: 4.5 x 4.5 inches
Gauge
4 sc x 4 rows = 1 square inch
For loop stitch plus hdc: 1 row of loop sts plus 2 rows of hdc x 4 loop sts = 1 square inch
Written Free Instructions for the Advent Wreath
All starting chains are not counted and the first stitch of every round or row goes into the same stitch as the starting chain.
Crochet Wreath
VIDEO TUTORIAL can be found below
Use the yarn Kings Canyon
Make a chain of 31
Row 1: 1 hdc in each st starting from the 2nd ch from the hook, ch 1, turn (31 sts)
Row 2: 1 loop st in each st, ch 1, turn (31 sts) -> Pictures 2 – 5 shows how to crochet the loop st
Repeat rows 1 and 2 until you have 160 rows
Prep the Floral Wreath, by making the top edges rounder by using a knife (Picture 6).
Wrap the rectangular loop stitch piece around it and sew it together in the back, then sew the 2 ends together which are the short ends of the rectangle (Pictures 7-10).
Fasten off and weave in your ends.
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Crochet Candle
VIDEO TUTORIAL can be found below.
Make 4 candles
Each candle is made in 2 pieces that are sewn together after adding the foam insert.
Using the Redwood yarn
Large Candle Piece:
Round 1: Make a magic ring and add 10 sc’s in the center, pull the yarn to close the loop, sl st to the 1st st (10 sts)
Round 2: ch 1, 1 sc inc in each st, sl st to the 1st st (20 sts)
Round 3: ch 1, 1 sc in the BLO in each st, sl st to the 1st st (20 sts)
Round 4: ch 1, 1 sc in each st, sl st to the 1st st (20 sts)
Round 5: ch 1, *1 sc, 1 sc inc, repeat from * all around, sl st to the 1st st (30 sts)
Round 6: ch 1, *1 sc, 1 sc, 1 sc inc, repeat from * all around, sl st to the 1st st (40 sts)
(see picture 1)
You will now work in continues rounds. So no more sl sts until the end of the last st. Use a stitch marker to help with the number of rounds.
Round 7 is made in the BLO, starting Round 8 the sc’s are made through both loops.
Round 7 – 30: 1 sc in each st all around (40 sts), at the end of round 30 sl st, fasten off and weave in the end.
Small piece:
Round 1: Make a magic ring and add 10 sc’s in the center, pull the yarn to close the loop, sl st to the 1st st (10 sts)
Round 2: ch 1, 1 sc inc in each st, sl st to the 1st st (20 sts)
Round 3: ch 1, *1 sc, 1 sc inc, repeat from * all around, sl st to the 1st st (30 sts)
Round 4: ch 1, *1 sc, 1 sc, 1 sc inc, repeat from * all around, sl st to the 1st st (40 sts)
(see picture 2)
Prep the Foam Insert by cutting off the small piece on the bottom (Picture 5) and making a 2 inch (diameter) by 1 inch (height) hole on the smaller side of the foam insert (Picture 6).
Add the foam insert to the large candle piece and sew the small candle piece to the bottom of the candle (picture 3). Now you can add your flameless candle to the top (picture 4 – 5).
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Crochet Bow
VIDEO TUTORIAL can be found below
Make 4 Bows
Using Yellowstone
Chain 51, then starting from the 2nd ch from the hook
Row 1: 1 sc dec, 1 sc in each st until 2 sts left, 1 sc dec, ch 1, turn (48 sts)
Row 2 – 6: repeat row 1 (after row 6, you have 38 sts)
Row 7: 1 sc dec, 1 sc in each st until 7 sts left, ch 1, turn (30 sts)
Row 8: 1 sc dec, 1 sc in each st until 7 sts left, ch 1, turn (24 sts)
Row 9 – 10: 1 sc in each st, ch 1 turn, after row 10, sl st and fasten off.
(Picture 1)
Small piece to wrap around the bow:
Ch 10, then starting from the 2nd ch from the hook
Row 1 – 2: 1 sc in each st, ch 1, turn, fasten off after row 2, cut the end to be about half a foot long for sewing.
(picture 5)
Fold the large piece to make it look like a bow (see pictures 2-4), pinch the middle and sew together the end of the small piece (picture 6 – 7). Fasten off and weave in the ends (picture 8).
Sew the bow onto the bottom half of the candle (picture 9).
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Crochet Star
VIDEO TUTORIAL can be found below
Make 4 Stars
Using Yellowstone
Round 1: Make a magic ring, ch 1, add to the ring this repeat 5 times: 2 sc’s, ch 1
Then sl st to the 1st st
Round 2: *ch3, 1 sc in the 2nd ch from the hook, 1 hdc in the next st, 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.
This Video was made for a different pattern before. But the pattern itself is the same.
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Crochet Pinecone
VIDEO TUTORIAL can be found below
Make 4 pinecones
Using Sequoia
Ch 20
Sl st to the 3rd ch from the hook (picture 1 – 2), then add the following repeat 4 times to the 3rd ch from the sl st: 1 dc, ch3, sl st to the 3rd ch (pictures 3 – 7)
Now into each ch of the rest of the long ch add this repeat 5 times: 1 dc, ch3, sl st to the 3rd ch
After all chains have the repeat crocheted into, roll up the long piece in a spiral and sew it layer by layer together so it won’t get undone. Fasten off. (pictures 8 – 10)
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Crochet Holly
VIDEO TUTORIAL can be found below
You will make 4 sets of Holly’s that include 3 leaves and 3 berries each (one set shown in picture 39).
Holly leaf (picture 1):
Make 12 leaves
Using Mesa Verde
Ch 13, starting from the 2nd ch from the hook:
Round 1: all the following stitches go into the back bump of the chains: sc, sc, hdc, hdc, dc, dc, hdc, sc (picture 4); now you will on the opposite side of the chain, all the following stitches go into the BLO: sc, hdc, dc, dc, hdc, hdc, sc, sc (no sl st) (picture 5)
Round 2: ch 1, [1 sc, ch 3, 1 sc] into the 1st sc, sl st into the next 2 sts, [1 sc, ch 3, 1 sc] into the next st, sl st into the next st, [1 sc, ch 3, 1 sc] into the next st, sl st into the next st, [1 sc, ch 3, 1 sc] into the next st, [1 sc, ch 3, 1 sc] into the next st, sl st into the next st, [1 sc, ch 3, 1 sc] into the next st, sl st into the next st, [1 sc, ch 3, 1 sc] into the next st, sl st into the next 2 st, [1 sc, ch 3, 1 sc] into th next st, sl st to the 1st st, fasten and and weave in the ends. (picture 6)
Berries (picture 2):
Make 12 berries
Using Redwood
Round 1: Make a magic ring and add 8 sc’s to the loop, pull the yarn end to close the loop (so sl st’s)
Round 2: 1 sc in each st (8 sts)
Round 3: 1 sc dec 4 times, sl st to the 1st st of that round, fasten off
Making the Holly Set:
Stack 3 leaves onto of each other so they point outwards into 3 equally separated directions. Sew those 3 leaves together in the center where they come together.
Now tie together 3 berries and sew them onto the center of the 3 leaves. Fasten off and weave in all the ends, but 2, so you can sew the set to the wreath. (picture 3)
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Assembly of the Advent Wreath
Sew or use hot glue the 4 candles equally spaced from each other to the top of the wreath (they already have the bows sewn on) (picture 1 does not show the bows, but shows how to space them). Then sew 1 star, 1 set of holly’s and 1 pine cone each between the candles onto the empty spaces (picture 2).
Now you are done and can enjoy your Advent Wreath. There is no video for the assembly.
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