Transform yarn into festive decor with a colorful light display that won’t add to your energy bill. Crochet a Christmas light garland today by choosing your favorite free pattern from our curated collection.
Whether your Christmas decor style is contemporary or classic, you are sure to find a crochet Christmas light garland with a free pattern to suit your needs. You’ll have your pick of the litter from 10 dazzling designs. Scroll down and prepare to be inspired!
1. Christmas Light Amigurumi
Infuse some kawaii style into your festive Christmas display with this smiling strand of colorful lights. The 3-dimensional lights are made in the round like amigurumi using just single crochet stitches.
Designer: Raffamusa Designs
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2. Christmas Lights Garland
Here’s another crochet Christmas light garland pattern that’s free. It is designed in the ragdoll style where the front and the back are made separately before being sandwiched together and seamed around the edges.
Designer: Zamiguz
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3. Christmas Lights Garland
Saturated colors and vintage style lights are what classic Christmas dreams are made of! This pretty garland of lights and stars would fit right in with a farmhouse decor scheme.
Designer: Off the Beaten Hook
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4. Scrap-Buster Holiday Light Garland
The best part about any crochet Christmas light garland pattern that’s free is that you won’t need very much yarn to make it happen. That means you can work through some of your scraps to make room for new purchases!
Designer: Carla D.T. Fisher
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5. Christmas Light Appliques
Keep it sweet and simple with a brightly colored garland of lights that’s as cute as it is easy. You’ll crochet quick little 2-dimensional light shapes and then string them together – no stuffing required!
Designer: Repeat Crafter Me
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6. Holiday Lights Garland
These oversize lights are made to impress. They are crocheted in the ragdoll style. I like that the way that they are attached to the garland so that they can move freely and be spaced as you see fit.
Designer: Lily Sugar’n Cream
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7. Holiday Lightbulb Garland
Here’s another quick and easy ragdoll style design with a unique round shape. As an added bonus, the picture gives you inspiration for where to hang your garland if you don’t have a mantle to display it.
Designer: Kristen Stoltzfus for Yarnspirations
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8. Pom Pom Christmas Light Garland
There’s not very much crochet involved in this Christmas light garland pattern but it’s free and too cute to pass up. Colorful lightbulb shaped pom poms are strung together on a length of crochet chain stitches.
Designer: With Alex
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9. Lights Advent Calendar
Hollow lightbulbs are the perfect receptacles for little toys and treats, so why not make this fun and interactive advent calendar? Kids will have so much fun counting down to the big day.
Designer: KE Crochet
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10. Christmas Lights Decoration
How about one more ragdoll style design for the road? This tutorial includes step-by-step photos to make things super easy, even for beginner crocheters. My favorite aspect of this design is how many different colors the designer used!
Designer: Marinke Slump for Tuts+
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Crochet a Christmas light garland today with a free pattern! All you have to do is decide which one is the winner in your book. Let us know in the comments below, which design gets your gold star of approval?
If you enjoyed these crochet Christmas patterns, then you’ll want to check out more of my Christmas crochet patterns HERE.
Happy Crocheting!
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