If you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and like snow globes, you may want to make this crochet snow globe for your home decoration or as a unique handmade gift.
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For the embellishments I used St. Patrick’s Day-themed craft buttons – shamrocks, leprechauns and pots of gold. You will find links below in the Materials section.
This St. Patrick’s Day snow globe is my 4th crochet snow globe. My Winter Snow Globe was the first. It became very popular and was featured in Country Woman Magazine!
This inspired me to make snow globes themed for Valentine’s Day and also for Halloween. This then led to the St Patrick’s day theme featured now.
You may also like these other St. Patrick’s Day patterns: Crochet Horseshoe Applique, Crochet Shamrock and Lucky Clover Applique, Crochet St. Patrick’s Day Gnome, and Happy Shamrock in a Hat.
More crochet patterns for St. Patrick’s Day can be found in this post: St. Patrick’s Day Crochet Patterns, Crochet Patterns for St. Patrick’s Day on Etsy, and under the tag St. Patrick’s Day.
If you are looking for more St. Patrick’s Day crochet patterns, check out these patterns on the Etsy website!
St. Patrick’s Day Snow Globe – Crochet Pattern
The pattern for this crochet St. Patrick’s Day Snow Globe is also available as a print-friendly, styled, and advertisement-free PDF file. You can get it from my Etsy shop. Free pattern is below.
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Abbreviations:
BL, BLO – back loop, back loop only
Ch – chain
RS – right side
SC – single crochet
Sl St – slip stitch
St (Sts) – stitch (stitches)
WS – wrong side
Skill Level:
Intermediate (must know Fair Isle crochet)
Finished Size:
This St. Patrick’s Day Snow Globe is about 5” (13 cm) tall.
Yarn:
Red Heart Super Saver medium weight #4 yarn. Color A – spring green, Color B – hunter green
Hook and Other Materials:
Crochet hook E/4 (3.5 mm)
Stitch marker
Large sewing needle
Piece of cardboard
Scissors
Hot glue gun
Weighted stuffing material (I used Poly Pellets weighted stuffing beads)
St. Patrick’s Day themed buttons of your choice (try to get flat back buttons. If you get shank buttons, you will need to remove the shanks). I like to buy buttons on Etsy. My favorite buttons can be found HERE.
You will also need a craft cutter to remove the shanks.
Notes:
1.How to change to a new color – work the final stitch with the first color, but do not complete the stitch. You will have 2 loops remain on the hook. Drop first color and draw through the loops on the hook new color and complete the stitch.
2. The snow globe is worked in continuous rounds and rows. Use a stitch marker to mark the first stitch of each round.
3. This pattern uses the Fair Isle crochet technique, also known as the carried yarn method, where the yarn not in use is carried behind the crocheted stitches. This leaves a strand of yarn on the back of the work. (I found that using this technique instead of tapestry crochet creates a nicer color change on the right side).
When you change colors, make sure to put unused yarn toward the wrong side. Keep the dragged yarn on the wrong side loose.
Special Stitches
INV DEC (invisible decrease) – put hook through the front loop only of two consecutive stitches. You have three loops on hook. Yarn over and pull through two loops. You have two loops on hook. Yarn over and pull through those two loops.
INV DEC WS (invisible decrease on the wrong side) – put hook through the back loop only of two consecutive stitches. You have three loops on hook. Yarn over and pull through two loops. You have two loops on hook. Yarn over and pull through those two loops.
Instructions:
Snow globe
With Color A, make magic ring;
Round 1. Ch 1, 6 SC in magic ring. Total – 6 SC.
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Round 2. 2 SC in each St around. Total – 12 SC.
Round 3. [2 SC in first St, SC in next St] 6 times. Total – 18 SC.
Round 4. SC in first St, [2 SC in next St, SC in each of next 2 Sts] 5 times, 2 SC in next St, SC in next St. Total – 24 SC.
Round 5. [2 SC in first St, SC in each of next 3 Sts] 6 times. Total – 30 SC.Round 6. SC in first St and in next St, [2 SC in next St, SC in each of next 4 Sts] 5 times, 2 SC in next St, SC in each of next 2 Sts. Total – 36 SC.
Round 7. [2 SC in first St, SC in each of next 5 Sts] 6 times. Total – 42 SC.
Round 8. SC in first St and in each of next 2 Sts, [2 SC in next St, SC in each of next 6 Sts] 5 times, 2 SC in next St, SC in each of next 3 Sts. Total – 48 SC.
Round 9. [2 SC in first St, SC in each of next 7 Sts] 6 times. Total – 54 SC.
Round 10. SC in first St and in each of next 3 Sts, [2 SC in next St, SC in each of next 8 Sts] 5 times, 2 SC in next St, SC in each of next 4 Sts. Total – 60 SC.
Round 11 – 16. SC in each St around.
Continue working in rows with turn at the end of each row. Beginning Ch-1 doesn’t count as a St.
Row 17 (RS). A:(SC-2), [B:(SC-2), A:(SC-1), B:(SC-2), A:(SC-7)] 4 times, B:(SC-2), A:(SC-1), B:(SC-2), A:(SC-5), turn. Total – 60 Sts.
Row 18 (WS). Ch 1,A:(SC-5), [B:(SC-5), A:(SC-7)] 4 times,B:(SC-5), A:(SC-2),turn.Total – 60 Sts.
Row 19 (RS). Ch 1, A:(SC-3), [B:(SC-3), A:(SC-9)] 4 times, B:(SC-3), A:(SC-6), turn. Total – 60 Sts.
Row 20 (WS). Ch 1, [A:(SC-3),B:(SC-3), A:(SC-1), B:(SC-1), A:(SC-1), B:(SC-3)] 5 times, change to Color A, turn. Total – 60 Sts.
Row 21 (RS). Ch 1, A:(SC-1), [B:(SC-7), A:(SC-5)] 4 times, B:(SC-7), A:(SC-4), turn.Total – 60 Sts.
Row 22 (WS). Ch 1, [INV DEC WS, A:(SC-1), B:(SC-3),A:(SC-1), B:(SC-1), A:(SC-1), B:(SC-3)] 5 times, change to Color A, turn.Total – 55 Sts.
Row 23 (RS). Ch 1, [A:(SC-4), B:(SC-1),A:(SC-4), INV DEC] 5 times, turn. Total – 50 Sts.
Row 24 (WS). Ch 1, [INV DEC WS, A:(SC-3), B:(SC-1),A:(SC-4)] 5 times, turn. Total – 45 Sts.
Row 25 (RS). Ch 1, INV DEC, A:(SC-1), [B:(SC-1),A:(SC-3), INV DEC, A:(SC-3)] 4 times, B:(SC-1), A:(SC-5), do not turn. Fasten off Color B. Total – 40 Sts.
With a large sewing needle and Color A, join ends of rows together from the wrong side. Continue working in rounds.
Round 26. SC in next 2 Sts, [SC in next 6 Sts, INV DEC] 4 times, SC in next 6 Sts. Total – 36 Sts.
Round 27. Sl St in each St around. Total – 36 Sl Sts.
Continue working on base. Join Color B to BL of first St of previous round,
Round 1. Ch 1, BLO: SC in same St and in each of next 7 Sts, 2 SC in next St, [SC in each of next 8 Sts, 2 SC in next] 3 times. Total – 40 SC.
Round 2. SC in each St around. Total – 40 SC.
Round 3. [SC in each of next 9 Sts, 2 SC in next St] 4 times. Total – 44 SC.
Round 4. SC in each St around. Total – 44 SC.
Round 5. [SC in each of next 10 Sts, 2 SC in next St] 4 times. Total – 48 SC.
Round 6. SC in next St, Sl St in each of next 2 Sts. Fasten off.
Bottom
With Color B, make magic ring;
Round 1. Ch 1, 6 SC in magic ring.
Round 2. 2 SC in each St around. Total – 12 SC.
Round 3. [2 SC in first St, SC in next St] 6 times. Total – 18 SC.
Round 4. SC in first, [2 SC in next St, SC in each of next 2 Sts] 5 times, 2 SC in next St, SC in next St. Total – 24 Sts.
Round 5. [2 SC in first St, SC in each of next 3 Sts] 6 times. Total – 30 Sts.
Round 6. SC in first St and in next St, [2 SC in next St, SC in each of next 4 Sts] 5 times, 2 SC in next St, SC in each of next 2 Sts. Total – 36 Sts.
Round 7. [2 SC in first St, SC in each of next 5 Sts] 6 times. Total – 42 Sts.
Round 8. SC in first St and in each of next 2 Sts, [2 SC in next St, SC in each of next 6 Sts] 5 times, 2 SC in next St, SC in each of next 3 Sts. Total – 48 Sts. Leave long tail for sewing bottom to the base.
Finishing
Stuff your snow globe and the base, leave some space at the bottom. Stuff the snow globe well, make sure it has a nice, spherical shape.
Cut out a circular piece of cardboard that is slightly smaller than the diameter of the bottom. A compass is very useful for this purpose.
Using a sewing needle and saved long tail, start sewing the bottom to the base (don’t forget to insert the cardboard circle inside). Sew about ¾ of the diameter, add more stuffing as necessary. Add weighted material for stability, and finish sewing the bottom.
Your snow globe is now ready for embellishment.
If your buttons have shanks, cut the shanks off.
Using a hot glue gun, glue the buttons to the snow globe.
Congratulations! Your crochet snow globe is complete!
I hope you enjoyed this St. Patrick’s Day Snow Globe free crochet pattern!
Happy Crocheting!
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I love your snowglobe patterns, but try as I might, I can’t get the patterns in the globes (hearts or shamrocks) to come out right. I don’t believe this is due to your pattern directions, but to my inexperience as a crocheter.
What I have done, and this might be of use to anyone else who finds themselves in this situation and still really wants to make these, is to go back to your original Snowglobe Amigurumi pattern and follow it for rows 17-26. It creates snow at the bottom of the globe instead and it works nicely. I added a few more embellishments to liven it up. :}
Thank you so much for designing these and sharing them with us. You are a terrific artist and I look forward to everything you are doing next.
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Send me a message at [email protected] and I will try to help you with shamrock snow globe.