Get ready to infuse your holiday season with warmth and charm with our curated collection of 51 free Christmas knitting and crochet patterns. From adorable ornaments to cuddly toys, festive decor, and heartfelt gifts, this treasure trove of patterns will fill your days with creativity and joy. Whether you're a seasoned crafter or just starting out, our simple and easy patterns, available for convenient PDF download, are perfect for everyone. Let's embark on a magical journey of handcrafted holiday delights!

Shaun the Sheep Christmas Stocking to Crochet

Get ready for Christmas with this super-cute Shaun the Sheep stocking. It's easy to make with appliqué patches - much simpler than colourwork!

Knitted Christmas Table Set with Holly

This simple table set is sure to become a Christmas favourite. The cream base and holly leaf decoration is a timeless combination. It includes a placemat, coaster, napkin ring and gift bag – making it the perfect stocking filler.

Christmas Crochet Characters Blanket

Little ones will love this cosy throw, featuring adorable festive friends. Crochet the blocks in any combination to create your own unique blanket!

Intarsia Festive Gift Bags to Knit

Knit these cute little gift bags with our free pattern! Choose from a snowman, tree, gingerbread or santa motif and finish the bag off with a candy cane trim.

Merry & Bright Modern Crochet Christmas Wreath

Hook up a bright and beautiful wreath this Christmas with our easy pattern. This simple design is perfect for beginners and will look fabulous hanging on your door this festive season!

Knit Matching Christmas Stockings for You and Your Pet!

Make the perfect stocking this season with this quick and easy pattern, featuring mix-and-match colourwork motifs for you and your pet.

Reindeer Appliqué Crochet Cushion

Get cosy with this cuddly reindeer pillow, featuring a fabulously simple reindeer motif.

Santa and His Elf Crochet Toys

This simple pattern is easy to crochet and will look adorable sitting on your mantlepiece! It uses only simple stitches to create these classic Crhistmas characters.

Cuddly Knitted Reindeer Toy Pattern

This adorable little chap is sure to put a smile on anyone’s face on Christmas morning. We really love Cilla’s toy designs – her imagination seems to know no bounds. When we saw her idea for this cute Christmas toy, we got very excited and just had to ask her to write the pattern! Hopefully you and your little ones will love him just as much as we do.

Little Drummer Boy Crochet Amigurumi Pattern

Celebrate the 12 days of Christmas with this adorable drummer! Download your free crochet pattern to make this simple pattern tonight.

Festive Friends to Knit

Make the most of your yarn stash and make Father Christmas and friends! This easy pattern is perfect for stashbusting.

Ernie the Elf Amigurumi Pattern

Everyone needs a gift for Christmas and Ernie is no different, so get hooking this festive friend complete with his own little teddy bear tonight.

Knit a Winter Polar Bear - FREE PATTERN

Download our easy-to-follow pattern to knit your own adorable polar bear - complete with hat and scarf! This pattern is designed for small amounts of DK wool yarn, making it perfect for stashbusting.

Santa and Reindeer Amigurumi

These miniature versions of classic Christmas toys are perfect little stocking fillers for kids and adults of all ages.

Knitted Nutcrackers for Christmas

These cute knitted toys will be the perfect addition to your seasonal décor! Make them in your own Christmas colours using and DK yarn from your stash.

Easy Festive Fair Isle Baubles

Deck the halls with these dinky baubles, which can be knitted from scrap yarn in a matter of hours and look adorable on your tree. The baubles are knitted in the round on DPNs and feature three colourwork charts to choose from.

Vintage Crochet Baubles

Pick your brightest yarns to make these quick and easy vintage baubles, featuring simple spike stitches.

Beginner-friendly Christmas Decorations Knitting Pattern

Give your tree the handmade touch with this quick and easy pattern to create your own tiny knitted trees. Each one can be made from just a few metres of yarn, making it a perfect stashbuster.

Granny Stripe Mini Crochet Trees

Use your granny square skills to crochet these quick and easy tree decorations! Download your free PDF pattern today.

Lace Christmas Star Tree Decorations

These sparkly stars make the perfect Christmas decoration, whether on the tree or as a garland. Grab your sparkly yarn and get knitting! They are knitted in the round on DPNs and then stiffened using a sugar solution.

Easy Snowflake Crochet Patterns from TOFT

Make these simple crochet snowflakes with our easy-to-follow pattern. They make perfect decorations for your tree, or add them to a crochet chain to make a festive garland.

FREE CROCHET PATTERN: Easy Intarsia Penguin Christmas Jumper

Get into the festive spirit with this adorable jumper - a must-make for your little ones! The pattern is crocheted in Sirdar Snuggly Snowflake and includes sizes to fit ages 2-8 years.

Baby Snowflake Cardigan, Hat and Mittens

This sweet little baby set is a fun, quick little knit featuring fair isle snowflakes. It's perfect for baby's first Christmas!

Cute Baby Crochet Christmas Cocoons

This free pattern is just adorable! Make memories to last a lifetime with these cuddle cocoons for Santa's littlest helper.

Little Star Easy Kids Christmas Jumper

Our easiest ever Christmas jumpers can be knitted in DK, aran or chunky and adorned with your choice of colourwork motifs! Download your free PDF pattern book now.

If you liked this, you might also like...

Free Christmas Knitting Book

Christmas Crochet: 52 Free Patterns

Christmas Gifts to Sew