Crochet Stanford Tree

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One of our besties is heading to Stanford for grad school, so I crocheted him a tree that (hopefully) resembles their unofficial mascot. My creator notes are below.

This design is essentially a cone covered in 82 leaves with two eyes, a giant eyebrow, and a hat.

A few notes:

  • The pattern below is based on the notes I made when creating this tree. The pattern has not been tested so there may be errors to work around. Please let me know if you come across something that doesn’t make sense and I’ll do my best to update here.

  • This pattern should not be reproduced, sold, or otherwise claimed as your own. You may make items for yourself, to gift, or to sell, but always credit me as the designer and link back to this post.

Materials

  • 3.75mm crochet hook

  • Worsted weight yarns in the following colors:

    • Dark green (Red Heart Hunter Green)

    • Medium green (Red Heart Paddy Green)

    • Light/lime green (Red Heart Spring Green)

    • White (Red Heart White)

    • Black (Red Heart Black)

    • Red (Red Heart Cherry Red)

  • Stuffing

  • Yarn Needle

Terminology

  • Ch - chain

  • Sl st - slip stitch

  • Sc - single crochet

  • Hdc - half double crochet

  • Dc - double crochet

  • Increase - 2 single/half/double crochet in the next stitch

  • Decrease - invisible decrease

  • FLO - front loops only

  • Mini picot - chain 2, sl st into 1st chain

Pattern

Base Cone

In dark green -

Round 1: 6 hdc in magic ring (6)

Round 2: (hdc, increase, hdc) x 2 (8)

Round 3: (increase, hdc 3) x 2 (10)

Round 4: (hdc 2, increase, hdc 2) x 2 (12)

Round 5: (increase, hdc 5) x 2 (14)

Round 6: (hdc 3, increase, hdc 3) x 2 (16)

Round 7: (increase, hdc 7) x 2 (18)

Round 8: (hdc 4, increase, hdc 4) x 2 (20)

Round 9: (increase, hdc 9) x 2 (22)

Round 10: (hdc 5, increase, hdc 5) x 2 (24)

Round 11: (increase, hdc 11) x 2 (26)

Round 12: (hdc 6, increase, hdc 6) x 2 (28)

Round 13: (increase, hdc 13) x 2 (30)

Round 14: (hdc 7, increase, hdc 7) x 2 (32)

Round 15: (increase, hdc 15) x 2 (34)

Round 16: (hdc 8, increase, hdc 8) x 2 (36)

Round 17: (increase, hdc 17) x 2 (38)

Round 18: (hdc 9, increase, hdc 9) x 2 (40)

Round 19: (increase, hdc 19) x 2 (42)

Round 20: (hdc 10, increase, hdc 10) x 2 (44)

Round 21: (increase, hdc 21) x 2 (46)

Round 22: (hdc 11, increase, hdc 11) x 2 (48)

Round 23: (increase, hdc 23) x 2 (50)

Round 24: (hdc 12, increase, hdc 12) x 2 (52)

Round 25: (increase, hdc 25) x 2 (54)

Round 26: (hdc 13, increase, hdc 13) x 2 (56)

Round 27: (increase, hdc 27) x 2 (58)

Round 28: (hdc 14, increase, hdc 14) x 2 (60)

Round 29 - 30: sc around (60)

Cone Bottom

In dark green -

Round 1: 6 sc in magic ring (6)

Round 2: increase around (12)

Round 3: (sc, increase) x 6 (18)

Round 4: sc, increase, (sc 2, increase) x 5, sc (24)

Round 5: (sc 3, increase) x 6 (30)

Round 6: sc 2, increase, (sc 4, increase) x 5, sc 2 (36)

Round 7: (sc 5, increase) x 6 (42)

Round 8: sc 3, increase, (sc 6, increase) x 5, sc 3 (48)

Round 9: (sc 7, increase) x 6 (54)

Round 10: sc 4, increase, (sc 8, increase) x 5, sc 4 (60)

Leaves

I used 3 different colors for my leaves and fit 82 total onto my tree.

Ch 5

Round 1: sc 3, 3 sc in last ch, continuing up the other side sc 2, 2 sc in last ch (10)

Round 2: sl st into first sc, mini picot, sl st into next 2 sc, mini picot, sl st, (sl st, mini picot, sl st, mini picot, sl st) in end sc, sl st into next sc, mini picot, sl st into next 2 sc, mini picot, sl st into next sc, finish off

Here’s a mini tutorial for the leaves:

Eyes

In white -

Ch 5

Round 1: sc 3, 3 sc in last ch, continuing up the other side sc 2, 2 sc in last ch (10)

Round 2: sc 4, sc 3 in end sc, sc 4, sc 3 in last sc (14)

Round 3: sl st around, finish off

Embroider black down the middle and tie off

Here’s a mini tutorial for the eyes:

Eyebrows

Round 1: ch 20, sc 9, 3 sc in next ch, sc 8, sc followed by 2 sl st in last ch, sl st 17 down the other side, place 2 sl st in last ch then sl st to first sc

Here’s a mini tutorial for the eyebrows:

Hat

In white -

Round 1: 6 sc in magic ring (6)

Round 2: increase around (12)

Round 3: (sc, increase) x 6 (18)

Round 4: sc, increase, (sc 2, increase) x 5, sc (24)

Round 5: (sc 3, increase) x 6 (30)

Round 6 - 7: sc around (30)

Round 8: switch to red and sc around in FLO (30)

Round 9: in white - sc 2, increase, (sc 4, increase) x 5, sc 2 (36)

Round 10: (sc 5, increase) x 6 (42)

Assembly

  1. Sew the leaves to the cone and tie each one off inside. I started at the bottom and worked around the tree before moving up to the next round. I left about 2 empty spaces in between each leaf and each round was about 4 rounds high. I ultimately ended up with 7 rounds of leaves with the bottom round containing 18 leaves and the top round containing 4 leaves.

  2. Stuff the cone

  3. Sew the cone bottom onto the cone

  4. Sew the eyebrows onto the tree

  5. Sew the eyes below the eyebrows

  6. Sew (or just place) the hat on top of tree

  7. Celebrate because you’re all done!