It’s that time of the year when we are starting to get ready for Christmas 🎄🎄🎄 And I thought, what about handmade crochet Advent calendar this year?
This crochet Advent calendar is easy to make and will last you years! Amazing surprise for your loved ones, as it is handmade with love 😊 And you can fill it with whatever you want, in my case it will be chocolate.
We are going to start from making our main body. I used chunky yarn for main body as I’ve found it being thicker and more stable, but you can use DK yarn as well.
Afterwards, we are going to make all 24 numbers (you can find patterns and video tutorials for all numbers here) and 24 pocket squares.
Lastly assembly will follow, which is prety basic:
- Attaching numbers to squares
- Attaching squares with numbers to main body
- Attaching magnets to our squares
- Attaching our dowell to the main body
- And last step – attaching chain of stitches to the top of dowell
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As well, you can watch video tutorial on my Youtube chanel on how to make this crochet Advent calendar:
Tools and materials required:
- 3mm crochet hook (look at these pretty hooks on Amazon)
- Red chunky yarn (approx. 300g) – I used this red yarn
- Dowel 8mm x 500mm
- White DK yarn (approx. 50g)
- Pink DK yarn for numbers
- White and red thread for attaching magnets (good set of colours on Amazon)
- 24 x 18mm magnets
- Scissors (if you need new scissors – look at these 😉)
- Tapestry needle
- Sewing pins
Abbreviation (US terms):
CH – chain
HDC – half double crochet
ST – stitch
SL ST – slip stitch
Main body
Start with chain of 71 stitch.
Starting from the second stitch:
Row 1: HDC in next 70 ST [70]
Row 2-80: CH 1, HDC in the same ST, HDC in next 69 ST [70]
Finish off with slip stitch and leave very long tail for attaching our dowel later.
You will end up with rectangle in size approximately 44cm by 57cm (17 inches by 22 inches)
Square pockets
Make 24 square pockets using white DK yarn, you will end with squares in size 8cm x 8cm.
Start with chain of 17 stitches.
Starting from second st:
Row 1: HDC in next 16 ST [16]
Row 2-10: CH 1, HDC into same ST, HDC in next 15 ST [16]
Finish off with slip stitch and leave long tail for sewing.
So far we’ve finished our body and our crochet pockets and our crochet Advent calendar is looking like in the picture below:
Numbers
Now we need to make numbers to attach to our pockets – I used pink DK yarn but you can use any preferred colour.
You can find patterns and video tutorials for all numbers in my separate post – numbers from 0 to 9.
In total you will need to make:
- 12 x number 1
- 8 x number 2
- 3 x number 3
- 3 x number 4
- 2 x number 5
- 2 x number 6
- 2 x number 7
- 2 x number 8
- 2 x number 9
- 2 x number 0
Assembly of crochet Advent calendar
Step 1: Using tapestry needle attach numbers from 1 to 24 to our pockets. When attaching numbers to our pockets make sure, that long tail for sewing pockets to our main body stays at the right top corner. That will make it easier attaching pockets to our main body later.
Step 2: Distribute all pockets with already attached numbers over the crochet Advent calendar body. Secure it with safety pins, if needed. Using tapestry needle attach all pockets to the main body in whatever sequence you would like.
Step 3: Afterwards, using needle and matching colour threads attach magnets inside of our pockets. One magnet attached to inside of pocket and another magnet to the main body as shown in the picture below:
Step 4: Using tapestry needle and long tail for sewing from our body attach dowel to the top of our Crochet advent calendar.
Step 5: Using the same red yarn as we’ve used for our main body, make chain of 90 stitches. When finished, attach this chain to both ends of our dowel.
And that’s our crochet Advent calendar is finally complete! It’s ready to be hanged on the wall and filled with goods 😊
