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Use this Christmas Gift Card Holder Crochet Pattern to create your own modern Christmas gift card holder. This reusable Christmas Gift Card Holder is a versatile as it provides a stylish way for you to carry your cards and keep them in one place. Make it from bright cheery colours or your favourite neutral tones. The choice is yours. What a great gift idea to switch up how you can present your gift cards to loved ones at Christmas or any time of the year!

 

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Hi everyone. I am so excited to share this new free crochet pattern with you. The Christmas Gift Card Holder crochet pattern makes up so fast and is also a great stash busting project. Make it in two contrasting colours for the striped look or using lots of your stash to create a rainbow one. You can use cotton or acrylic yarn for this pattern.

 

The Festive Christmas Gift Card Holder.

The Festive Christmas Gift Card Holder is a great way to package your surprise gift cards at Christmas. You can also add gift tags and hang them on the tree as a surprise for folks to find. 

The card holder itself makes a great present as it can be used year round to keep your credit cards etc in one place in your purse or bag.

Description of my Festive Gift Card Holder:

This Festive Gift Card Holder is made with the granny stripe stitch with a twist. For this project I decided to go with half double crochet instead of double crochet when making the granny stripe stitch.  This makes for a tighter and more delicate look to the holder. it is still super beginner friendly. It is made in the round so there are no seams to sew up.

There are so many colour combinations you can use that will give it a different feel and vibe.  To keep with the Christmas Festive feel I used red and white, but green and white or any colour you associate with the holiday season would work perfectly. Gift Card Holders make a great gift and they are so quick and easy to whip up. 

Don’t forget to pin it for later so you don’t lose it.

 

Design Inspiration for my Festive Christmas Gift Card Holder.

 

You can purchase the inexpensive ad free PDF from Ravelry.

 

Here is a video tutorial  showing how to make the Festive Coffee Cup Cozy. You can see how I create the granny stripe stitch in the round. 

Here is the right handed version. 

 

 

Do you love the Granny Stripe Stitch and Granny Squares.

This gift card holder uses the granny stripe stitch and I have lots of patterns that use this stitch, One of the most popular is the Granny Square Bucket Hat and I have a great video tutorial for this pattern. 

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The Festive Gift Card Holder

Pattern by Pam Carr ©2022

 

  

Introducing the Festive Gift Card Holder Pattern. This Festive Gift Card Holder is great for teacher’s gifts or for anyone you wish to give a gift card to for Christmas. It also doubles as a tree ornament so it is perfect for the Holiday Season. It is reusable and a versatile and beginner friendly. Make it from bright cheery colours for Christmas or your favourite neutral tones for any time of the year. The choice is yours

The Festive Gift Card Holder is made with the granny stripe crochet stitch and. It is beginner friendly.

 

 

The Festive Gift Card Holder

 

Supplies you will need:

Yarn: worsted weight yarn (4) The gift card holder in the pictures is made with Red Heart Super Saver Yarn. You will need red and white for this Festive Gift Card Holder.

You can use any worsted weight yarn.

Hook: Size H/8 -5.0 mm
Notions:  Scissors, tapestry needle.

Gauge: 12 hdc – 10 hdc rows = 4” (10 cm)

Abbreviations (uses US conventions)

• Ch = chain

• Sl st = slip stitch

• st = stitch

• hdc = half double crochet

• FPhdc = front post half double crochet

• BPhdc = back post half double crochet 

Special Stitches for this Pattern.

FPhdc/BPhdc:

The ribbing at the top of the gift card holder is created with alternating fphdc and bphdc stitches.

Here are the written instructions for how to do the FPhdc or front post half double crochet.

Yarn over, insert hook from the front side of the work to back and then to front again, around the post of the indicated stitch on the previous row; yarn over and pull up a loop (3 loops on hook), yarn over and draw through all three loops, (1 loop on hook).

And for the BPhdc or back post half double crochet.

Yarn over, insert hook from the back side of the work to front and to back again around the post of the indicated stitch on the previous row; yarn over and pull up a loop (3 loops on hook), yarn over and draw through all three loops (1 loop on hook)

A tip to remember when working this type of ribbing.

When you work 1 front post half double crochet (FPhdc) around the post of the half double crochet in the row below, this stitch is raised on the surface of the fabric facing you. Always make sure that the post stitches are raised to the same side in each successive row.

 

This pattern uses US terminology. The US and UK crochet terms are different, but they use the same terms to describe different stitches. Here is a simple conversion chart for anyone in the UK.

 

US Half Double Crochet (hdc)

UK Half Treble crochet (htrc)

 

Size:

The finished gift card holder measures 4.25” (11 cm) tall and 3.5 “(8 cm) wide approximately. This is fits credit card sized gift cards.

Instructions:

Note: I will call the two colours Colour A and Colour B so you can use whatever colours you choose.

With colour A

Chain 10

Round 1: Hdc into the 2nd chain from hook (this acts as a ch2 and a hdc), hdc into each of the next 7 chain stitches, make 2hdc into the last chain, hdc down the other side of the ch, there will be 8 st each side of the 2hdc shell. Join with a sl st to the top of the ch2 at the beginning

 

 Round 2: Ch2, make 2 hdc into the same st (this acts as a 3hdc shell), *sk2 st, make 3hdc into the next st, * repeat between * and * to the end, there will be 1 st, skip this st and join with a sl st to the top of the ch2. (there will be 7- 3hdc shells)

 

Change to Colour B

Round 3: Ch 2, make a 3hdc shell into the next sp, make 3hdc into each sp around, make 2hdc into the last sp and join to the top of the ch2 with a sl st.  (there will be 7 – 3dc shells)

 

Change to Colour A

Round 4: Ch 2, make a 3hdc shell into the next sp, make 3hdc into each sp around, make 2hdc into the last sp and join to the top of the ch2 with a sl st.  (there will be 7 – 3dc shells)

 

Change to Colour B

Round 5:   Ch 2, make a 3hdc shell into the next sp, make 3hdc into each sp around, make 2hdc into the last sp and join to the top of the ch2 with a sl st.  (there will be 7 – 3dc shells)

 

Change to Colour A

Round 6:   Ch 2, make a 3hdc shell into the next sp, make 3hdc into each sp around, make 2hdc into the last sp and join to the top of the ch2 with a sl st.  (there will be 7 – 3dc shells)

 

Change to Colour B

Round 7:   Ch 2, make a 3hdc shell into the next sp, make 3hdc into each sp around, make 2hdc into the last sp and join to the top of the ch2 with a sl st.  (there will be 7 – 3dc shells)

 

Change to Colour A

Round 8:   Ch 2, make a 3hdc shell into the next sp, make 3hdc into each sp around, make 2hdc into the last sp and join to the top of the ch2 with a sl st.  (there will be 7 – 3dc shells)

 

Round 9: Ch1, hdc into each stitch around to the end. (20 hdc st)

Round 10: Ch1, FPhdc, BPhdc repeat around

Round 11-12: Ch1, FPhdc, BPhdc repeat around

Fasten off and weave in the ends.

You now have a beautiful Festive Gift Card Holder.

 

If you have any questions or problems, do not hesitate to contact me at carrowaycrochet@outlook.com

 

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