Lightweight Haylee Bauble Ornament – Free Crochet Pattern | Easy Half Double Crochet Bauble Ornament Crochet Pattern in 3 Sizes

This is a free crochet pattern and video tutorial showing how to crochet an easy bauble ornament worked in simple half double crochet stitches and lightweight yarn. Three sizes included.

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These ornaments were original designed for the 2020 Festive Christmas Event, where I teamed up with a bunch of talented blogging friends to bring a plethora of creative ways to celebrate the holiday season. We shared cookie recipes, party games, handmade gift ideas, ornaments and Christmas movie fun as well as a Christmas Tree tour. Scroll all the way down to find all the other ornament ideas linked at the end.

As other patterns from my Haylee series, this ornament is worked in simple half double crochet stitches, and has 3 sizes – perfect to create a fun variety of ornaments.

Personalized ornaments are one of my favorite things to gift each holiday season. You can change up the colors to better match the recipients theme, or embellish with buttons or appliques.

I made these fun white ornaments as gifts a couple years ago and hand stitched initials onto them, but I think they look like snowballs, and would be great for a winter woodland themed tree!

We’re changing up our holiday decor this year (2023) so I went with orange for my ornaments – this is what you’ll see in the video tutorial.

You can easily leave off the hanger, and use these as decorative balls around the house, like in a basket.

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Materials:

• Small Amount of Lightweight (#3) Yarn – I used Hobby Lobby I Love This Yarn Sportweight in Red, and Baby Bee’s Sweet Delight in Airplane [Gray] and Angel
• G6/4mm Crochet Hook – my favorite ergonomic hooks are from SiennasBowtique on Etsy
• Tapestry Needle
• Soft Tape Measure
• Either Styrofoam Balls – 2.4″ for Small, 2.8″ for Medium, and 3.8″ for Large – bauble ornaments with the same diameters, or stuffing
• Optional: Stitch Marker or Waste Yarn – I like to use Locking Stitch Markers

Materials Notes:

My favorite yarn to use for Christmas ornaments is Lion Brand Vanna’s Glamour. Sadly, it’s been discontinued. You may still be able to find some on eBay or Overstock. With the metallic strands in it, it’s perfect for the holidays! I think WeCrochet Brava Sport may be a good alternative.

In my original design, and with many of the ornaments I make, I designed to cover styrofoam balls, but the small size also works great to cover ornaments from Dollar Tree that come in a tube of 7 (and measure 7½” in circumference), which is what I’m using in the video because I wanted to have the hanger at the top. Alternatively, you could also stuff the ornaments.

Keep in mind that the measurements given are ball diameters, not the circumference. If you have a ball at home, and you want to see if it’ll fit the measurements I’ve provided (or you want to work to a custom size), you’ll want to measure all the way around the ball, which is the circumference, then divide by pi, which is 3.14.

Time Spent:

The medium sized one took me just under 45 minutes to complete.

Gauge – In Pattern:

• 36 HDC in the Round = 2.25″ in diameter
• 60 HDC in the Round = 4″ in diameter

Abbreviations (US Terms):

• HDC – Half Double Crochet (Photo Tutorial)
• HDC2tog – Half Double Crochet 2 Stitches Together to Decrease

Pattern Notes:

This pattern is worked in a continuous spiral with no joining at the end of each round. You may want to use a stitch marker to mark the first stitch of each round to help keep track as you go.

For a photo tutorial of the Finishing/Closing, please visit my Celtic Weave Bauble Ornament, Free Crochet Pattern, and scroll to the bottom.

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Lightweight Haylee Bauble Ornament Video Tutorial:

Crown of Bauble (Increasing Rounds):

Chain 5 (4, 5). Slip stitch join to form a ring. Chain 1. Work 12 (11, 10) HDC into the ring, yarn over, insert hook into the ring, yarn over and pull through… [12 (11, 10) HDC]

R2: …insert hook into the 1st HDC, yarn over and pull through, yarn over and pull through all loops on hook (counts as the 1st HDC of this round), HDC into the same HDC, 2 HDC into each of the next 11 (10, 9) HDC. [24 (22, 20) HDC]

R3: (2 HDC into the next HDC, HDC into the next HDC) 12x (11x, 10x). [36 (33, 30) HDC]

Stop here for the Small Size.

R4 (Medium/Large Only): (2 HDC into the next HDC, HDC into each of the next 2 HDC) 11x (10x). [44 (40) HDC]

Stop here for the Medium Size.

R5 (Large Only): (2 HDC into the next HDC, HDC into each of the next 3 HDC) 10x. (50 HDC)

R6: (2 HDC into the next HDC, HDC into each of the next 4 HDC) 10x. (60 HDC).

Now is the best time to weave in the initial tail end.

Body of Bauble:

R4 – 8 (5 – 11, 7 – 13): HDC into each HDC around. [36 (44, 60) HDC]

Decreasing:

Small, R9: (HDC2tog, HDC into the next HDC) 12x. (24 HDC)

Flip piece inside out, place ball and pull piece around slightly stretching.

Small, R10: (HDC2tog) 12x. (12 HDC)

Small, R11: (HDC2tog) 12x. (6 HDC)

Fasten off with long tail.

Medium, R12: (HDC2tog, HDC into each of the next 2 HDC) 11x. (33 HDC)

Flip piece inside out, place ball and pull piece around slightly stretching.

Medium, R13: (HDC2tog, HDC into the next HDC) 11x. (22 HDC)

Medium, R14: (HDC2tog) 11x. (11 HDC)

Medium, R15: HDC into the first HDC, (HDC2tog) 5x. (6 HDC)

Fasten off with long tail.

Large, R14: (HDC2tog, HDC into each of the next 4 HDC) 10x. (50 HDC)

Flip piece inside out, place ball and pull piece around slightly stretching.

Large, R15: (HDC2tog, HDC into each of the next 3 HDC) 10x. (40 HDC)

Large, R16: (HDC2tog, HDC into each of the next 2 HDC) 10x. (30 HDC)

Large, R17: (HDC2tog, HDC into the next HDC) 10x. (20 HDC)

Large, R18: (HDC2tog) 10x. (10 HDC)

Large, R19: (HDC2tog) 5x. (5 HDC)

Fasten off with long tail.

Finishing:

Pull up on final loop so yarn comes out. Thread tail end into needle.

Begin weaving in and out of every other stitch around top. Once back to the beginning, tug on yarn to close top hole and then weave into the stitches to secure.

Keep tension on yarn end with left hand, and insert crochet hook underneath the center stitches with the other. Pull up a loop. Chain 10 for Small, and 15 for Medium and Large – if you want a loop large enough to hang straight from tree, add 10 more chains. Fold chain in half with wrong sides facing each other, slip stitch to the same stitch the chain is coming from, and weave in remaining yarn to secure the loop in place.

If you are using a bauble ornament as the base, follow the same first step, however, after weaving in and out around the top, tug on the yarn to close up around the ornament hanger, and secure here. Skip the next step to make the hanger as you already have one.

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