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Christmas Crochet Bunting Garland

by | Patterns

Author: Alison  –   Updated: September 2025

Merry Christmas Bunting: Crochet Pattern

Inspiration

Bring some handmade charm into your home this holiday season with this festive crochet bunting. I’m sharing my original pattern for a “Merry Christmas” garland that you can craft ahead of time and enjoy as part of your seasonal decorations.

Pennants

A pennant is a little triangular flag, and for this project you’ll make seventeen of them. Once finished, they’re strung together to spell out a joyful Christmas message. You can follow the pattern in classic red, green, and white, or change up the colors to suit your own style or even adapt it for other celebrations throughout the year. To see the full step-by-step process, watch the video on YouTube here.

Materials

Yarn

For this bunting, I used Impeccable acrylic yarn in size [4] worsted weight. You’ll need one ball each in red, green, and white. The exact shades I chose were Ruby Red, Sage Green, and Ivory. Get this yarn here.

 

Hook

5mm crochet hook. Get this hook here.

Tapestry needle. Get a similar needle here.

Measurements

Pennant


Each pennant is about 20 cm (8 inches) wide, 19 cm (7 ½ inches) tall, and 22 cm (8 ¾ inches) along the two long sides of the triangle.

Gauge


The gauge is approximately 14 stitches and 8 rows over a 10 x 10 cm (4 x 4 inch) square.

Bunting


When complete, the full bunting chain with end loops measures around 4 meters (just over 13 feet) in length.

Watch on YouTube

I have made a video about making the Christmas Bunting and you can watch it on YouTube by clicking the video below.

 

Pattern Notes: Construction Sequence

Pennants


Begin by making all the pennants. Each one starts at the bottom tip of the triangle and is worked upward. You’ll increase two stitches at the second stitch in from each edge on every row for 13 rows.

Embroidery


Once the pennants are complete, embroider the letters onto them using a simple chain stitch. This creates the words for your bunting.

Bunting Cord


Next, make the bunting cord with a long chain stitch. Add a small loop at each end so your garland is easy to hang.

Tassels


Finish by attaching tassels to the ends of the bunting for a festive touch.

Crochet Terminology

US Crochet Terms


This pattern is written using US (American/Canadian) crochet terminology.

For example, a double crochet (dc) is worked as follows:

  • Yarn over, insert the hook, yarn over and pull through (3 loops on hook).
  • Yarn over and pull through 2 loops (2 loops remain).
  • Yarn over again and pull through the last 2 loops.
  • One loop stays on the hook and the double crochet is complete. 

Stitches and Abbreviations

ch = chain stitch

sc = single crochet

dc = double crochet

st = stitch

sl st = slip stitch

Pennant Crochet Stitch Diagram

Color Combinations

Make 17 pennants in total. 6 red, 5 green and 6 white.

Embroider Letters

On 14 pennants embroider the capital letters:

M E R R Y   C H R I S T M A S 

Leave three pennants blank.

With a tapestry needle and contrasting yarn embroider each letter.

Align your letters from row 6 to row 11. Try to place the letters in the middle and do not pull too hard. 

The letter M will be wider than all the other letters being 9 stitches across whereas the other letters will be 7 stitches across and the “I” only 3 stitches wide.

Keep the embroidery chain stitch at an even tension.

Embroidery Chain Stitch Examples

Letters

Here are the photos of each pennant I made showing the embroidery chain stitch letters to help you as a guide.

Bunting Cord Pattern

Starting Loop

With red, ch10, and sl st into the first chain to form a loop. Chain 10.

 

Join the Pennants

Single crochet across the top 27 stitches of the first pennant. 

Gaps

Chain 5 for the gap. 

Join the next pennant. 

Note 

Make sure the pennants are added in the correct order to spell the words “_MERRY_CHRISTMAS_” with a blank pennant at the front, a blank pennant between the two words and a blank pennant at the end.

 

Ending Loop

After the last pennant is joined, ch20 and slip stitch into the 10th chain from the hook to form a loop.

Fasten off. Weave in the ends.

 

End Loops

End Loops

Here are the photos of the two end pennants. 

They show the 10 chain loops with which to hang your bunting.

Tassels

Make the Tassels

The tassels hang at the point of each pennant. Cut four strands of yarn, two strands of red and two strands of white, 20cm (8 inches) long.

Fold in the middle.

I ran out of green and so I only used red and white.

 

Join Tassels

Right side facing, from behind, insert your hook into the base point of a pennant and pull the folded loop of the 4 strands through for about 2cm, then pull the rest of the loose strands through the folded loops. 

Gently ease the tassel into place.

Repeat on every pennant.

Slightly trim the tassels with sharp scissors if necessary.

About Old English Creations

Heartfelt Creativity

At Old English Creations, we’re building a small but heartfelt crochet business that celebrates creativity, mindfulness and the joy of making. Our focus is on sharing original crochet patterns, tips and inspiration which encourages you to bring more handmade beauty into your life.

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We currently earn a micro income through sales of our unique patterns on Etsy, with plans to grow further through our YouTube channel and our blog. Right now, the income is modest and just enough to buy more yarn and keep the creativity flowing, but every purchase, view and share truly helps support Alison’s work and passion for crochet design.

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Author Bio

Alison is a passionate crochet enthusiast and dedicated business blogger. She combines her love for crafting and entrepreneurship to inspire and connect with others.

With a knack for transforming yarn into beautiful creations and a flair for sharing valuable insights about running a successful crochet business, Alison embodies the perfect blend of creativity and practicality.

Read more about Alison’s crochet journey.

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by | Patterns

Christmas Stockings

Traditionally Christmas stockings are hung on the mantelpiece around a fireplace so Santa can come down the chimney and put gifts in the stockings for everyone. They are also know as Christmas socks.

In days gone by every sock has an orange and a piece of coal in the toe. This symbolized food and warmth for the year. These days we are just as likely to give a Terry’s chocolate orange and we always give chocolate coins or money in envelopes.

Traditionally the Christmas colours are red and green as these are the colours of holly. Holly is the main shrub with red berries and glossy green leaves that grows through the winter months and is available to take into your house for decoration at Christmastime.

Each stocking is embroidered with the person’s name so Santa has no problem working out whose is whose so he gets the gifts right. Well that’s the theory.

There many ways to make Christmas socks and here are the ones I’ve made for my family over the years.

Crochet stockings

Red crochet sock for Mom and striped crochet sock for Dad

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Knitted stockings

Knitted socks for the kids.

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The inspiration for the socks were from two were bought by my mother years ago in Johannesburg from a craft market. They are the inspiration for the other two kids stocking which I knitted when they were born, and that is over twenty years ago now.

I tried to make the second two socks similar to the first two socks because the younger children liked to have the same as the older children.

I am not really a knitter and these are about as fancy I I get with a pair of needles.

How to trim a Christmas tree

We put up  our family Christmas tree on the first Saturday of December every year. We have a “Trim the Tree” party where we order in food (which is actually a treat as we usually cook every meal in our home and don’t get takeout often).

We start at 5pm when the family arrives and it takes the whole evening to get the tree beautiful.

Every year you need to have a new ornament relating the what you did that year. This special ornament often has the year on it.

  • Open all the branches and straighten.
  • Add lights and check them by switching them on. Then switch them off.
  • Add tinsel by draping from one branch to the next like smiles.
  • Ad baubles.
  • Add chocolate ornaments
  • Switch on lights and say, “ohhh… and ahhh…”

Add the Christmas angel to the top. We have a Christmas book and write down each year which child added the angel and whose turn it is this year. The kids love to be the one to add the angel. Take family photos around the tree and it is done.

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Joe’s Story

Background

Joe was married and had three kids at school. Joe’s skill was woodworking. His talent was crafting wooden doll‘s houses. With having two daughters he had made the first doll’s house when the girls were very young and they had hours of fun playing with it. Joe worked in a factory. He did not earn much and Christmas was coming. 

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    Doll’s House

    That year he designed a traditional doll’s house. The roof was painted in magic green and this set off the rustic style of the house beautifully. The side hinged out so a child could play with the dolls and furniture and live out a fantasy life in miniature.

    One year Joe made a sample house and invited the neighbours around to see and hopefully to take orders. Joe got ten orders for his doll’s house that night. That meant he had four weeks to complete the work. He was excited. The next Monday be received an order or another five houses from the original people who had seen the sample house, and who had told their friends. And so it was. Joe had verbal orders to build fifteen wooden doll’s houses by Christmas Eve. He did.

    He worked a forty-hour week at the factory and then every evening after dinner he started sawing and nailing wood in his garage. He worked every weeknight until midnight and all day at the weekend. It took time. Every piece was cut and sanded by hand. The sides were glued and nailed together. The paint had to dry. He took pride in his work.

    The Plan

    He had bought all the materials he needed to make the houses for around $200. Joe planned to sell them for $20 each. So, his fifteen houses would be (15 x $20 = $300), giving him a profit of $100. This was the plan. In the end he made the fifteen doll’s houses.

    He was paid for ten as he delivered them the day before Christmas Eve but did not get paid for the final five. Why, because he was too late in delivering them (the plan was Christmas Eve) but the people who had ordered the houses from him got nervous, that they would be let down, and so they bought other gifts for their kids. That meant they did not have the cash to pay for the doll’s houses they had ordered from Joe. In the end Joe broke even and was left with five doll’s houses.

    Of course he may have broken even in the money numbers, but he was not compensated for all the work he had done for the past four weeks. That effort he was not paid for. He was tired and had no extra cash for his family for their Christmas meal and gifts. During the New Year he managed to sell the other houses, eventually.

    What Went Wrong?

    This happens often that crafts people go into micro businesses (which is what it is if you make things to sell) not fully understanding the time commitment required and how to price correctly for their hand made goods.

    Joe could have:

     

    • Taken a deposit for each order.
    • Delivered the houses one-by-one as they were made.
    • Charged a bit more for each house.
    • Got help building the houses.
    • Made fewer houses, at a better price, that could have been delivered early.

    How You Can Benefit

    You can benefit from Joe’s story in your micro business. There are a few things you can do to improve how you manage you small craft business and I will discuss them in future posts.

     

    • Your first sale.
    • How to calculate the true cost of your hand crafted items.
    • What to charge for your hand crafted goods.
    • How and why you should take a deposit.
    • How to respect your skills and charge accordingly.
    • What to do with the money you make.
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