Get ready to score a crafting goal with these adorable soccer ball ornaments! Perfect for decorating your Christmas tree, making gifts for the soccer lover in your life, or adding a sporty touch to your home decor. These quick-to-make crochet soccer balls work up in just a few hours and use minimal yarn.
Key Takeaways:
- Quick project that’s perfect for beginners
- Great way to use up yarn scraps
- Makes wonderful personalized gifts for soccer fans
- Versatile design works for ornaments, keychains, or toys
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
Soccer Body
- 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-R15: 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
Small Black Patches x 12
- Start with magic ring
- R1: 5 sc
- R2: 5 inc
Note: Connect with black thread, split the thread into 2 strands, embroider the black lines, and glue to the soccer body
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Happy crocheting! Don’t forget to share your finished ornaments with us using #SoccerCrochetFun


