How to Crochet Christmas Bauble Ornaments for Decoration

In this post, you can learn how to crochet cute Christmas Bauble Ornaments in two nice colors with a recent Storybook Crochet tutorial. These ornaments are perfect for decorating Christmas trees and equally great as holiday toy gifts. Unlike usual fairy light ornaments, they feature big safety eyes that will make them the kid's favorite.

However, you can also embroider the eyes or omit them. These crochet Christmas ornaments are specifically designed for beginners and require a little sewing.

The complete video guide for crocheting them will be available at the end of this post. You can read more about this crochet project below.

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Skills Used: Magic ring, single crochet, and increasing and decreasing for shaping. It also includes techniques like using back-loop-only stitches and inserting safety eyes securely. Additional skills involve stuffing the ornament evenly with fiber fill and sewing different parts (like the cap and hook) neatly to ensure a professional finish.

Guide Span: 18 Minutes Only

Personalization Tips: This crochet Christmas ornament has numerous ways to personalize. You can try a lot of colors other than red and green to match your holiday theme, like using gold and silver (using glue, spread the glitter) for a luxe look or traditional white and red.

Swap out safety eyes for embroidered ones to make it safer for young children. Along with the safety eyes, you can also embroider the mouth.

About Christmas Bauble Ornaments Tutorial

This video tutorial is a detailed guide for crocheting these popular crochet Christmas ornaments that will stay with you for years. The tutorial emphasizes proper techniques, safety tips (like securing small parts), creative customizations, how to stuff the bauble firmly with fiberfill, and many other useful tips that will help beginners in their amigurumi journey. Here is a quick overview of this

Starting the Ornament: Begin with a magic ring and progress through increasing rounds to shape the ornament's body. Detailed instructions are provided for stitch counts and patterns.
Adding Details: Instructions to place and secure safety eyes, optionally lining them with white yarn for a polished look.
Shaping and Decreasing: Clear guidance on forming the ornament's shape through a series of decreasing rounds, ensuring symmetry and firmness.
Creating the Cap: Step-by-step tutorial for crafting the ornament cap using back-loop stitches and assembling the parts.
Making the Hook: Details on chaining and attaching a hook to the ornament cap for easy hanging.
Final Assembly: Fill the ornament cap with fiber fill, attach it to the ornament body, and secure it firmly. Options for sewing or gluing the parts together are discussed.

Abbreviations Used and Stitches

Following are the abbreviations that the tutor uses for the on-screen pattern. Below we have given quick written instructions for the stitches also:

Single Crochet (sc): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through both loops on hook.
Increase (inc): Make two single crochets in the same stitch.
Decrease (dec): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, insert hook into next stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through all loops on hook.
Back Loop Only (blo): Work into the back loop of each stitch only, instead of both loops.
Slip Stitch (sl st): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through both the stitch and the loop on the hook.
Chain (ch): Yarn over, pull through loop on hook.

Supplies Mentioned

To crochet this Christmas bauble ornament, you'll want to have the same materials on hand as the tutor—gather these for delightful results.

Worsted weight cotton yarn (green and gray, with optional white for eye lining).
Two 15mm safety eyes (or small black yarn for embroidery).
US size E (3.5mm) crochet hook.
Fiber fill for stuffing.
Scissors.
Yarn needle.
Stitch marker.