Christmas Tree Gnome

Free crochet pattern for a Christmas Tree Gnome by @pampino_hm.

With this pattern, you can crochet a festive gnome wearing a Christmas tree hat. Any cotton blend yarn will work for this amigurumi project, including Alize Cotton Gold, YarnArt Jeans, Gazzal Baby Cotton, and others.

Materials and tools

• Alize Cotton Gold yarn: bright green, dark green, yellow, red, orange, cream, beige
• 2.5 mm crochet hook
• Fiberfill
• Felting wool
• Cardboard
• Needle for sewing pieces together
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• MR – magic ring
• ch – chain stitch
• sl st – slip stitch
• sc – single crochet
• dc – double crochet
• hdc – half double crochet
• inc – increase
• dec – decrease
• (...) x n — repeat n times

Crochet Christmas Tree Gnome amigurumi pattern

Body

Start with cream yarn:

Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6)
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3: (sc in next st, inc in next st) x 6 (18)
Round 4: (sc in each of next 2 sts, inc in next st) x 6 (24)
Round 5: (sc in each of next 3 sts, inc in next st) x 6 (30)
Round 6: (sc in each of next 4 sts, inc in next st) x 6 (36)
Round 7: (sc in each of next 5 sts, inc in next st) x 6 (42)
Round 8: (sc in each of next 6 sts, inc in next st) x 6 (48)

Cut a piece of cardboard to fit and place it inside. Change to bright green, cut the cream yarn, and leave a long tail for working a reverse single crochet edging.

Reverse single crochet: Work this stitch just like a single crochet, except in the opposite direction (from left to right instead of right to left).

Rounds 9-24: sc in all 48 sts (48) (16 rounds)
Round 25: (sc in each of next 6 sts, dec) x 6 (42)
Round 26: (sc in each of next 5 sts, dec) x 6 (36)
Round 27: (sc in each of next 4 sts, dec) x 6 (30)
Round 28: (sc in each of next 3 sts, dec) x 6 (24); firmly stuff the body
Round 29: (sc in each of next 2 sts, dec) x 6 (18)
Round 30: (sc in next st, dec) x 6 (12)
Round 31: dec x 6 (6)

Nose

Start with beige yarn:

Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6)
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Round 3: (sc in next st, inc in next st) x 6 (18)
Round 4: (sc in each of next 2 sts, inc in next st) x 6 (24)
Rounds 5-7: sc in all 24 sts (24)
Round 8: (sc in each of next 2 sts, dec) x 6 (18)
Lightly stuff the nose
Round 9: (sc in next st, dec) x 6 (12)
Round 10: dec x 6 (6)

Leave a long tail for sewing the nose to the body.

Arms (make 2)

Start with beige yarn:

Round 1: 6 sc in MR
Round 2: 6 inc (12)
Rounds 3-4: 12 sc (12)
Round 5: (dec, 4 sc) x 2 (10)
Change to bright green
Rounds 6-15: sc in all 10 sts (10)
Round 16: dec x 5 (5)

Leave a long tail for sewing the arms to the body. Do not stuff the arms. Attach the beard with brown yarn as shown in the photo. Brush out the beard.

Christmas tree hat

Start with dark green yarn:

Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6)
Rounds 2-3: 6 sc (6)
Round 4: 6 inc (12)
Round 5: (sc in next st, inc in next st) x 6 (18)
Round 6: 18 sc (18)
Round 7: (sc in each of next 2 sts, inc in next st) x 6 (24)
Round 8: (sc in each of next 3 sts, inc in next st) x 6 (30)
Round 9: 30 sc (30)
Round 10: (sc in each of next 4 sts, inc in next st) x 6 (36)
Round 11: 36 sc (36)
Round 12: 18 dec (18)
Round 13: 18 sc (18)
Round 14: 18 sc (36)
Round 15: (sc in each of next 5 sts, inc in next st) x 6 (42)
Rounds 16-18: 42 sc (42)
Round 19: (sc in each of next 6 sts, inc in next st) x 6 (48)
Rounds 20-22: 48 sc (48)
Round 23: 24 dec (24)
Round 24: 24 sc (24)
Round 25: 24 inc (48)
Rounds 26-27: 48 sc (48)
Round 28: (sc in each of next 7 sts, inc in next st) x 6 (54)
Rounds 29-31: 54 sc (54)
Round 32: (sc in each of next 8 sts, inc in next st) x 6 (60)
Rounds 33-34: 60 sc (60)

Change to cream yarn and work a round of reverse single crochet. Stuff the hat.

Small Christmas tree ornaments

Crochet the ornaments in 3 colors, making 6 small balls in each color.

Round 1: 6 sc in MR (6)
Round 2: (1 sc, inc) x 3 (9)
Round 3: 9 sc (9)
Round 4: dec (do not stuff the balls)

Use fabric glue to attach the balls to the hat.

Star

Start with yellow yarn:

Work 10 sc in MR, ch 4, then work back along the chain (skip 1 ch, 1 hdc, 1 dc, sl st in the next stitch); skip 1 stitch x 4 times.

Use fabric glue to attach the star to the top as shown in the photo. Sew the hat to the body.