FREE CROCHET CANDLE PATTERN

Easy to make free crochet Candle pattern. Enjoy!

Size 6 cm / 2.36 inch in height

Tools & Materials

• Crochet hook size 2.5 mm

• Polyester Craft Filling for toys

• Tapestry needle and craft pins

• Scissors

• Stitch marker or a piece of yarn to mark the end of a round

• Small piece of cardboard (for the candle' bottom)

Yarn

• Yellow (Rico Essentials Cotton DK, Banana (63), 100% Cotton, 50g)

• Violet (Stylecraft Natural DK Bamboo + Cotton, Heather (7138), 60% Bamboo 40% Cotton, 100g)

• Light Yellow (Stylecraft Natural DK Bamboo + Cotton, Buttermilk (7129), 60% Bamboo 40% Cotton, 100g)

• Dark Brown (Stylecraft Natural DK Bamboo + Cotton, Espresso (7148), 60% Bamboo 40% Cotton, 100g)

Skills required / abbreviations / info

• MG – magic ring (make specified number of single crochet stitches into the loop)

• Sc – single crochet

• Inc – 2sc increase (crochet 2 single crochet stitches into the same stitch)

• Dec – 2tog decrease (crochet 2 stitches together)

• BLO – back loops only

• FLO – (front loops only)

• F/O – finish off

• R – spiral round 

• Row – row

• ( )* – repeat the sequence in brackets to the end of the round

• (12) – number of stitches expected at the end of the round

• Work in spiral rounds, do not turn/join unless stated otherwise

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CANDLE TOP (colour light yellow)

R 1 mg, 6sc (6)

R 2 (inc)* (12)

R 3 (inc)* (24)

R 4 sc 24 (24)

F/O and leave longer tail for sewing.

CANDLE (colour violet)

R 1 mg, 6sc (6)

R 2 (inc)* (12)

R 3 (inc)* (24)

R 4 sc 24 (24)

R 5 BLO 24 (24)

R 6 - 11 sc 24 (6 rnds) (24)

R 12 FLO 24 (24)

R 13 sc 24 (24)

• Make 1sl st to the next stitch to even out the edge. F/O and cut off yarn.

• Take small piece of cardboard (any thick piece of paper will work) and cut out a circle of a size of the candle’ bottom. Next, place the circle on the bottom of a candle – it will help to keep it flat.

• Flip the edge of the ‘Candle’ to expose BLOs and using needle, attach ‘Candle Top’ (candle top’ BLOs to candle’ BLOs). Before sewing is finished, leave a little hole and stuff ‘Candle’ properly (small tweezers may be helpful); when done, close the hole and F/O.

FLAME (colour yellow and dark brown)

R 1 mg, 5sc (5)

R 2 (inc, sc 4) (6)

R 3 (sc 1, inc)* (9)

R 4 (sc 2, inc)* (12)

R 5 (sc 1, dec)* (8)

R 6 (sc 2, dec)* (6)

Flatten the Flame (don’t stuff), then close with sl st; leave longer tail for sewing.

Using needle and a piece of dark brown yarn, make wick on a both sides of the ‘Flame’.

Ready ‘Flame’ attach to the top of the ‘Candle Top’.

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