
How to Make a Stylish Christmas Tree Decoration - Christmas Angel? Step-by-Step Guide to Crocheting an Angel with Photos
May your home be filled with happiness, love andwell-being, since ancient times it has been customary to hang an angel on a Christmas tree branch on Christmas night. Previously, such figures were carved from wood, woven from straw or cut out of paper, today such decorations can be easily bought in any suitable store on the eve of the New Year and Christmas holidays. However, such decorations can also be made by yourself with your own hands, unlike cheap factory stamping, such an angel can become a real guardian of your family hearth, because by creating it you will put all the warmth of your hands, love and tenderness into the toy.
Materials and tools
So, to make a crochet Christmas angel we will need:
- a hank of fine mercerized white yarn;
- Crochet hook;
- 10 cm thin white satin ribbon;
- a small white pearl bead;
- sewing needle;
- scissors.
Description of work
1. Form the first air loop and tie it in a circle with single crochet stitches, like this. So that we get a knitted piece that resembles a circle in shape.2.Next, we knit the second row in a circle. For this, we also use single crochet stitches, and we knit only one top stitch from each stitch in the bottom row. Due to the fact that we did not make any additional additions in a circle, our knitted piece looks like a small hat.
3. Following the second row, we knit the third row with single crochet stitches, in it we also do not make any additions, we only knit one new stitch from one stitch of the bottom row.
4. As a result of three knitted rows, we get a practically finished knitted part of the angel's head, we stuff it from the inside with synthetic padding or regular cotton wool, and then pull all the loops into one.
5.After the angel's head is ready, we move on to further knitting the body and wings, for this we tie another row of single crochet stitches around the head, this time we knit two stitches at once from each lower loop, and we get a detail like this. Reminiscent of a collar.
6. Knit the next row in the same way as the previous one, namely, from each column of the bottom row, knit two columns with one yarn over of the top one.
7. Now we will knit with small arches, each of which is a chain consisting of four air loops.
8. We also knit the next row with arches, placing them in a checkerboard pattern.
9.Next, we need to tie the last row of arches with elements resembling a "fan" pattern; for this, from the first arch we knit one single crochet, then one double crochet, one double crochet, again one double crochet and again a single crochet. We knit the whole row in a circle like this.
10.After this, we determine symmetrically where the angel's wings will stand out, we select three fans on each side and tie them with two rows of arches, each of which consists of three air loops.
11. We tie the last row of wings with single crochets. We fasten the thread and cut off the excess.
12. This is what we get.
13. Now we need to knit the lower part of the angel's robe. To do this, knit one circular row from the inside with arches consisting of four air loops each.
14. Continue knitting further in a circle with the same arches, making uniform increases according to the principle of knitting the “fillet mesh” pattern for another nine rows.
15.We knit the last row with “fans”, for this we knit one single crochet from each arch, two double crochets, one double crochet, two double crochets again and one single crochet.
16. This is the charming little angel we get.
17. To decorate the angel’s head with a halo, secure the thread at the back of the head and knit a chain of fifteen air loops.
18. Connect the last loop of the chain to the first using a slip stitch, secure the thread and cut off the excess. Place the halo on the angel's head.
19. To decorate the angel's robe, form a bow from a piece of thin white satin ribbon and decorate it in the center with a small white mother-of-pearl bead.
20. Using a sewing needle, sew the bow onto the angel.
21.In order to hang our toy on a Christmas tree branch, we need to make a loop. To do this, we fasten the thread on the top of the head and knit a chain of air loops of the length we need. We connect the first and last loops of the chain with a slip stitch, fasten the thread and cut off the excess.
22.Our Christmas tree decoration, a crocheted Christmas angel, is ready! Additionally, to keep the toy in shape, you can make it rigid using starch or concentrated sugar syrup. Here is such a cute angel we got.