Knitted Christmas Tree Banner

This adorable Knitted Christmas Tree Banner is quick and easy to knit. The Christmas tree banner looks beautiful draped across a mantel and brings the colors of Christmas into your home.

Vivid reds, greens, and whites will always be the color of Christmas deco in my home. I remember growing up and how much my mother loved Christmas. She would make decorating the tree and also our home, very special.  After we decorated the tree, we would make homemade divinity. Our divinity always failed so we would laugh and eat the divinity with a spoon. We still ask her to make us a bowl of failed divinity every year. It was still delicious even if it didn’t look perfect.

I remember how excited I would get when I pulled all of the ornaments out of the boxes. It brought back memories of all of our past Christmases. I have always wanted my children to have the same experience. I don’t know why but they do not act that excited about using the same ornaments every year. I guess things are different these days but I still want to use the same traditional colors that we had in our home every year.

I do love that people are bringing back the vintage decor this Christmas. While shopping, I saw some little knitted Christmas tree ornaments and I was inspired to make something similar to use as a garland for the fireplace.

I played around with some patterns until I had adapted a pattern to make the trees large enough for a banner. These trees are easy to knit and can be knitted very quickly. I tied the trees to a felted ball garland but you could use rope, twine, or ribbon if you desire.

I sewed a craft stick to the bottom of the tree so that my knitted trees would stay open and not curl.

Supplies

Size 13 Knitting Needles

Chunky yarn in the colors you choose. 2 colors for striped tree and 1 color for tree trunk.

Pattern

I am sharing the pattern for a striped tree.

Cast on 14 stitches in color A (red).

Row 1 Knit

Row 2 Purl

Row 3  K1. ssk. Knit to last 3 sts. K2tog. K1 – You will have 12 stitches now.

Row 4 Purl

Change color to color B (white)

Row 5 Knit

Row 6 Purl

Row 7  K1. ssk. Knit to last 3 sts. K2tog. K1 -You will have 10 stitches.

Row 8 Purl

Change color to color A

Row 9 Knit

Row 10 Purl

Row 11  K1. ssk. Knit to last 3 sts. K2tog. K1 -You will have 8 stitches.

Row 12 Purl

Change color to color B

Row 13 Knit

Row 14 Purl

Row 15  K1. ssk. Knit to last 3 sts. K2tog. K1 -You will have 6 stitches

Row 16 Purl

Change color to color A

Row 17 Knit

Row 18 Purl

Row 19  K1. ssk. Knit to last 3 sts. K2tog. K1 You will have 4 stitches

Row 20 Purl   DO Not Change Yarn Color Here

Row 21 K 2tog. Knit 2 tog.

Cut yarn leaving at least 6-inch tail and pull through remaining 2 stitches. Tie in a knot.

Tree Trunk

Cast on 3 stitches (or more if you want a wider trunk) and knit 5 rows. Cast off.

Sew the trunk to the tree.