🏀 Add a festive touch to your Christmas tree with these adorable mini basketball ornaments! These quick and easy crochet basketballs work up in just an hour or two, making them perfect last-minute gifts for the sports fans in your life. Hang them on your tree, use them as gift toppers, or create a whole team of tiny basketballs!
Key Takeaways
- Quick project – complete in 1-2 hours
- Great for beginners – uses basic stitches
- Versatile – perfect for ornaments, keychains, or toys
- Customizable – create team colors with different yarns
- Gift-worthy – ideal for basketball lovers
Materials&Tools
- Yarn
- Polyester Fiberfill
- 2.25mm Hook(What I used in this pattern)
- Yarn Needle
- Glue (To connect the parts, you can also sew with yarn)
Abbreviation
- ch – chain
- sc – single crochet
- inc – increase (2 single crochets in one stitch)
- dec – decrease (merge 2 single crochets into 1)
- hdc – half double crochet
- dc – double crochet
- sl st – slip stitch
- magic ring – adjustable ring to start crocheting in the round
- BLO – back loop only
- FLO – front loop only
How to Read Pattern?
- R5: ch, [1 sc, sc inc] x 6, sl st
In Round 5, start with a chain stitch, then repeat the pattern “1 single crochet, single scrochet increase” 6 times. End with a slip stitch.
- (sc+sc+sc)
Parentheses ( ) indicate that all stitches within them are worked into the same stitch. So ‘(sc+sc+sc)’ means working 3 single crochet stitches all into the same stitch.
Pattern Info
Basketball
- Start with magic ring
- R1: 6 sc
- R2: 6 inc
- R3: [sc, inc] x 6
- R4: [sc, inc, sc] x 6
- R5: [3 sc, inc] x 6
- R6: [2 sc, inc, 2 sc] x 6
- R7: [5 sc, inc] x 6
- R8-15: 42 sc
- R16: [5 sc, dec] x 6
- R17: [2 sc, dec, 2 sc] x 6
- R18: [3 sc, dec] x 6
- R19: [sc, dec, sc] x 6
- R20: [sc, dec] x 6
- R21: 6 dec
- Using 2 strands black yarn for embroidery
