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use up your yarn stash and make
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something beautiful in this video I will
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show you how to make these super cute
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granny square Christmas trees so to make
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your Christmas trees you're going to
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need some yarn you can use as many
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colors as you like this is an arum
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weight which is the equivalent of us
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wased you will also need some dute twine
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scissors 5 mm hook you'll need both a
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large daring needle for sewing the yarn
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and also one with a small eye to sew on
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the buttons some star-shaped wooden
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buttons some cinnamon
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gun so we're going to start by making
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our granny square so you want to put a
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hook and chain four one 2 3
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four we're going to join with slip
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stitch to make a ring and then going to
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chain three this counts as a double
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crochet and we they going to put two
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double crochet into the
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ring then going to chain two this is our
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first corner and then put three double
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crochet into the ring
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oops now I'm working over my tail as I
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go because you can then just pull that
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tight and it closes up that ring a
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bit so we're going to chain two for the
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next Corner another three double crochet
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two and three more double crochets into
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ring and we're going to end with another
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chain two and join with the slip stitch
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to the top of that chain
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three and then we're going to fasten off
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now I like to weave my tails in as I go
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so what I do I turn this granny square
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over and I just put my hook through
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these bumps on the back of the
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stitches and then I pull that through
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and I do that on the next one as
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well when we work the next round we're
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going to work over the top of those and
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they'll be secured and then o you need
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end right so let's join our next
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three again that counts as our first
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double crochet so we're in the corner
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space here we going to put two more
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double crochet into that space
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chain two for the corner and then three
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double crochet into that space and again
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I'm working over my tail
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one two now the way I like to carry this
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across I don't like to leave this float
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at the back here I know the we're not
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going to see them in this particular
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um in these trees but just so that you
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know how to do it without carrying a
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float I'll show you so you do the first
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crochet like so then you take the tail
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you lay it over the top of the hook and
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then you just finish off your double
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crochet stitch so now this tail is up
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here you're now going to hold it to the
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next corner and you work around the tail
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and your working yarn so that's you yarn
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over with both go into that corner pick
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up that Loop and then finish off your
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Stitch as normal and then you can just
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give that a little bit of a tug and then
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that disappears completely and then you
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can work over into that corner as well
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and then your tail is
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secured and you have no long floats at
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the back so if you're making a blanket
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with granny squares and you want it to
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be double-sided then you can use this
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method so we chain two for the corner
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another three double crochet into that
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and we're going to do this in in both of
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the the next two corners so we'll three
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double crochet into the chain space
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chain two three double crochet and the
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same into the next chain space there we
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are at the end of the round and we're
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just going to join with the slip stitch
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to the top of that chain
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three and fasten off okay so we're ready
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three and this is the round that you
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will just repeat to make your Square as
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big as you want so I'm going
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in I like to to go in at the the space
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next to the corner space I'll show you
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why in a minute so we go we'll join on
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three that's our first double crochet
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space and then I'm going to carry that
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yarn Again by laying it over the hook
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finishing off my Stitch
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and then pulling that across to the
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corner now when you work over your end
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at the corner it's got six stitches
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holding it in in place rather than just
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three so it's a bit more secure so
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that's the only reason why I start off
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next Rec Corner instead of in the corner
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I know most people like to start off in
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the corner but we're going to put three
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double crochet chain two three double
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crochet into this corner
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then I'm going to put three double
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crochet into the next space and then
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work another Corner three double crochet
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into the next space work a corner three
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double crochet into the next space and
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work that corner and that's exactly what
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you're going to do until you have four
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rounds so when they get to the end of
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that round then just join the top of
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that chain three with a slip stitch I'm
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at the end of round five and I'm finish
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off as normal with a slip stitch top of
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that chain three and fasten off I'm
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going to leave quite a long tail now so
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that I can use this tail to seam the
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tree so you probably want to leave
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in now all of these tails in the back
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you can just go ahead and snip those off
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because we've worked over all of those
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Tails so there's no ends to weave in at
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all okay so we're going to turn our
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granny square over to the wrong
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side with your tail end here
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and your Square oriented in a kind of
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diamond shape we're going to fold these
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over this will be where you will
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seam and this side will go up
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by pushing your cinnamon stick
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through so you've got the center of the
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square here you've got one two corner
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holes it's going to go through that
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second one just push that
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inside like that and you want to have
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like the seam of the cinnamon stick at
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the back and the top of your cinnamon
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stick should reach the center of the
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square so we're going to pop a little
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glue right in there just put a little
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and just push your cinnamon stick down
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that then we're going to put another
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top and we're going to fold this end up
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corner and just push that into the
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glue like so then going to take a length
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top of that cinnamon stick there and
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we're going to wrap the twine around
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yourself enough space to tie a knot
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afterwards we just wrap it
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around few times as many times as you
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and then just tie the
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tight cut those ends off now I'm going
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to make a tiny little bow out of the
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front can be a bit Filly you could
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probably actually buy already made ones
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if you wanted to you could use ribbon if
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you didn't want to use J
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I like The Rustic feel you get with the
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J and I think it goes with the colors
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I've chosen but if you wanted to use
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like really nice bright colors it might
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look really pretty with some colored
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ends and put another blob of
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glue and stick your on
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there think I stuck my fingers to the
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tree there so we're next going to make a
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Loop so make that as long as you would
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end and then we're going to put another
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blob of glue in the top here
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and stick our hanging Loop in
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so then going to take
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needle I'm going to fold these sides
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over now if you want you can sew the
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bottom piece of this down or you could
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leave it open in case you wanted to put
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anything in there like a gift card or a
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you maybe put a Bible verse in there so
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I'm just going to take the yarn across
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with a few stitches to get to where we
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need to sew together and then I'm going
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to go through the back
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loops and just to do a little whip
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Stitch I'm going to put one stitch just
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through here to secure but if you want
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to as I said you can leave that open
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and then just go through the back Loops
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Stitch all the way up to close your tree
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top you just want to make a little
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Loop put your needle through there to
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knot and then Hide Your
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Tail inside the tree there we go it
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looks really cute already I'm going to
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add a little star to this so I've got
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these uh cute little wooden star buttons
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I got I got all of the um extra
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materials from Amazon so what I will do
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is I will link all of these into my UK
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Amazon shopf front um and I will try and
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find equivalent things for the US shop
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front so you can go and have a look
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there and if you want to get any of
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these you can do okay so for this we're
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going to use a piece of
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jute what I've done is because this J is
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quite thick I've split it this piece
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into three strands so that I can spread
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needle there we go so all we're going to
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do is with the right side of the button
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facing we're going to go from front to
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back with the jute through the
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button and then we're going to go just
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top and then back through the other side
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and then all we need to do is just tie a
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knot and then we can
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just snip off those long
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ends and then you have a really cute
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Christmas tree ornament as you can see
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from these larger squares I used five
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rounds for these and for this smaller
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one I used four rounds if You' like more
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stash busting ideas then check out my
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playlist right here on YouTube bye-bye
