I am arranging a room for my little troublemakers 😉. Within few days cute wallpaper with forest animals should be delivered. Recently, a beautiful beech bed-house came to us. Looking through Instagram, I noticed that garlands are often hung on them. I decided to do one on my own 😉. The theme of colorful hot air balloons was chosen. I need at least 6 of them for the satisfactory final result. One hot air balloon is ready and in today’s post I would like to show you how to crochet it 😁. The crochet pattern is available for free and created by me for my own needs.
The hot air balloon’s height is about 9 cm. Together with hanging basket it is 14 cm. You can mix colors, but it is worth to be consistent with room colors.
What you’ll need to crochet hot air balloon?
- Yarn, I used Gazzal Baby Cotton (60% cotton, 40% poliacrylic) in colors consistent with room colors
- 3 mm hook
- Scissors
- Fiberfill
- Yarn needle
How to crochet hot air balloon?
Dictionary:
mr – magic ring
sc – single crochet
inc – increase
dec – decrease
ch – chain
st – stitch
Balloon
1: MR [6]
2: Inc*6 [12]
3: (sc, inc)*6 [18]
4: (2 sc, inc)*6 [24]
5: (3 sc, inc)*6 [30]
6: (4 sc, inc)*6 [36]
7: (5 sc, inc)*6 [42]
8: (6 sc, inc)*6 [48]
9: (7 sc, inc)*6 [54]
10-16: sc in each st
17: (7 sc, dec)*6 [48]
18-19: sc in each st [48]
20: (6 sc, dec)*6 [42]
21-22: sc in each st [42]
23: (5 sc, dec)*6 [36]
24-25: sc in each st [36]
Fill with fiberfill
26: (4 sc, dec)*6 [30]
27-31: sc in each st [30]
The bottom of the balloon I crocheted as below:
1: MR [6]
2: inc*6 [12]
3: (sc, inc)*6 [18]
4: sc, inc, (2 sc, inc)*5, sc [24]
5: (3 sc, inc)*6 [30]
Balloon – details
I started with about 54 chains. Then I crocheted: 3 sc, 1 hdc, 1 dc, 1 tr, 1 dc, 1 hdc, 3 sc itd. Jointly I received 6 “bulges”. Finałly I sewed 60 chains string to the bottom of it.
Basket
1: MR [6]
2: inc*6 [12]
3: inc*6 [24]
4: (3 sc, inc)*6 [30]
5: 30 sc in BLO [30]
6-15: sc in each st [30]
Fold the edge of the basket outwards.
Basket’s string
I crocheted 4 string, 25 chains each of them, leaving the long tail for joining at the top of the balloon.
Joining together
Finałly I joined everything together starting from the balloon and its details. Then I hang the basket using 4 chains. Keep your fingers crossed so that I can deal with the remaining balloons quickly and come back to you with a ready garland 🙂
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I have been passionate about DIY since my childhood, and my innate patience and accuracy make the whole process of creation a lot easier for me and that gives me a lot of satisfaction and pleasure. During my first pregnancy I learnt how to sew, what resulted with few tutorials about sewing clothes for kids on the blog. In the beginning of my second maternity leave, I have learned how to crochet amigurumi from yt. I found out, that I really love it, that’s why so many blog posts describe my crochet creatures.
