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November 26th, 2023

Dreidel Crochet Pattern — Free Bobble Stitch Hanukkah Pillow

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Step into the vibrant celebration of Hanukkah with this free dreidel crochet pattern — a beautifully textured pillow that combines the cozy charm of decorative home goods with the cultural significance of the dreidel. Worked using intarsia colorwork and the raised bobble stitch, this pattern creates a captivating accent piece that radiates the joy and tradition of the Festival of Lights. 🕎

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This is one of three coordinated patterns in my Hanukkah Bobble Stitch Pillow Set — the Dreidel pattern is being shared free on the blog, while the matching Menorah and Star of David patterns are available as ad-free PDFs in the SeeLoveShare Etsy shop. Whether you make just this one or build the full coordinated set, you’ll have a beautiful piece of handmade Hanukkah decor to display year after year.

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Why you’ll love this dreidel crochet pattern

  • Stunning textured design — the bobble stitch creates a raised, three-dimensional dreidel that catches the light beautifully
  • Free full pattern below — complete row-by-row written instructions
  • Customizable size — written for a 16″ × 16″ pillow with notes on how to scale up
  • Meaningful handmade gift — perfect for friends, family, or your own Hanukkah display
  • Part of a matching set — pair with the Menorah and Star of David Bobble Stitch Pillows for a coordinated look

Want a printable graph and color tracker?

The full row-by-row pattern is below — but if you’d like a cleaner experience, I have an ad-free printable PDF version in my Etsy shop that includes the row-by-row PLUS the visual color graph for the dreidel design AND a digital row tracker to keep your place as you work through the colorwork. The graph is the same one I use myself when stitching this — most makers find it much easier to follow alongside the written instructions, especially for intarsia bobble stitch projects like this one.

Get the Ad-Free PDF + Graph + Tracker on Etsy →

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Save with the Hanukkah Bobble Stitch Pillow Bundle

Making more than just the Dreidel? The Hanukkah Crochet Pattern Bundle includes all three matching pillow patterns — Dreidel, Menorah, and Star of David — at a discounted bundle price. Perfect for stitching the full coordinated set.

Get the Hanukkah Bundle on Etsy →

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Pattern details

  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Finished Size: 16″ × 16″ (easily resizable; 3 rounds of edging fits an 18″ × 18″ pillow insert)
  • Technique: Intarsia crochet with bobble stitch texture
  • Hook: 5.5 mm (US I/9)
  • Yarn Weight: #4 Medium (worsted)

Materials

Gauge

12 sc × 15 rows = 4″ × 4″ (10 cm × 10 cm) with a 5.5 mm (US I/9) crochet hook.

Pattern notes

  • This pattern uses the intarsia crochet technique — multiple colors in a single row to create a specific design.
  • Each square in the graph represents an individual stitch — either a single crochet or bobble stitch.
  • Beginning Ch-1s do not count as a stitch throughout the entire pattern.
  • Bobbles are worked only on EVEN rows (wrong side of work) and are always worked in the contrast color. When bobbles are marked in the pattern, you follow the color change at the same time.
  • For simplicity, you can fasten off the contrast color after every even row and reattach at the next even row (this saves you from carrying yarn across two rows in the back).
  • Once the back and front panels are complete, edge the work with single crochet to ensure a clean seam when joining. You can increase the size of the work by adding more rounds of edging.

Tips on changing colors

  1. Finish the last stitch with the old color: Work until there are two loops on the hook with the old color.
  2. Yarn over with the new color: Before completing the last stitch with the old color, yarn over with the new color.
  3. Pull through loops: Finish the last stitch by pulling through the last two loops with the new color.
  4. Secure the old color: Once you’ve changed colors, secure the yarn of the old color by either crocheting over the tail or weaving it in later.

Abbreviations

Ch: Chain · Sc: Single crochet · Sl st: Slip stitch · St(s): Stitch(es) · MC: Main color · CC: Contrast color · WS: Wrong side · RS: Right side

Bobble Stitch

Yarn over, insert hook into stitch, yarn over and pull through (three loops on hook), yarn over and pull through 2 of the loops. Repeat the previous step four more times so that you have five not-quite-complete dc stitches worked into the same stitch. There will be six loops on the hook. Yarn over and pull through all six loops. This closes your bobble crochet stitch.

Dreidel crochet pattern — front panel

Tip: The visual color graph is included in the ad-free PDF version on Etsy and makes the colorwork much easier to follow alongside the written instructions below.

To start, with MC, ch 54.

Row 1: Sc in 2nd ch from hook to end, ch 1, turn. (53 sts)
Rows 2–9: Sc in each st across, ch 1, turn.

Row 10 (begin colorwork on WS): Sc in the first 15 sts, change color to CC2. *Work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 3 more times. Work bobble once more. Change color to MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn. (Color changes are called out in this row but will be integrated into the rows going forward — see pattern notes above.)

Row 11 (and every odd row through Row 53): Sc in each st across, ch 1, turn.

Row 12: Sc in first 13, with CC1 [bobble, sc, bobble, sc], with CC2 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 4 more times. Work bobble once more. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 14: Sc in first 11, bobble. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 3 more times. With CC2 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 3 more times. With black [bobble, sc]. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 16: Sc in first 11, bobble. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 3 more times. With CC2 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 4 more times. With black [bobble, sc]. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 18: Sc in first 11, bobble. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 4 more times. With CC2 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 1 more time. With black [bobble, sc]. With CC2 [bobble, sc, bobble, sc]. With black [bobble, sc]. With CC2 bobble. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 20: Sc in first 11, bobble. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 4 more times. With CC2 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 2 more times. With black [bobble, sc]. With CC2 [bobble, sc, bobble, sc]. With black [bobble, sc]. With CC2 bobble. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 22: Sc in first 11, bobble. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 5 more times. With CC2 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 3 more times. With black [bobble, sc]. With CC2 [bobble, sc, bobble, sc, bobble, sc, bobble]. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 24: Sc in first 11, bobble. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 6 more times. With CC2 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 2 more times. With black [bobble, sc]. With CC2 [bobble, sc, bobble]. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 26: Sc in first 11. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 2 more times. With black *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 2 more times. With CC1 [bobble, sc, bobble, sc]. With CC2 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 5 more times, work one last bobble. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 28: Sc in first 11. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 2 more times. With black *work bobble in the next st, sc*. With CC1 [bobble, sc, bobble, sc]. With black [bobble, sc]. With CC1 [bobble, sc, bobble, sc]. With CC2 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 3 more times, work one last bobble. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 30: Sc in first 11. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 3 more times. With black [bobble, sc, bobble, sc]. With CC1 [bobble, sc]. With black [bobble, sc]. With CC1 [bobble, sc, bobble, sc]. With CC2 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 1 more time, work one last bobble. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 32: Sc in first 13. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 2 more times. With black [bobble, sc]. With CC1 [bobble, sc]. With black [bobble, sc]. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 3 more times. With CC2 bobble. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 34: Sc in first 15. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 2 more times. With black [bobble, sc]. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 4 more times. With CC2 bobble. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 36: Sc in first 17. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 7 more times. With CC2 bobble. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 38: Sc in first 19. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 3 more times and then bobble once more. With MC, sc in next 5. With CC2 [bobble, sc]. With CC2 bobble. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 40: Sc in first 21. With CC1 *work bobble in the next st, sc* repeat within ** 1 more time and then bobble once more. With MC, sc in next 9. With CC1 [bobble, sc]. With CC2 bobble. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 42: Sc in first 23. With CC1, work bobble in the next st. With MC, sc in next 13. With CC1 [bobble, sc]. With CC2 bobble. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 44: Sc in 39. With CC1 [bobble, sc]. With CC2 bobble. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Row 46: Sc in 41. With CC1, bobble. With MC, sc to end, ch 1, turn.

Rows 47–53: Sc in each st across, ch 1, turn. Fasten off on final row.

Back panel

To start, with MC, ch 54.

Row 1: Sc in 2nd ch from hook to end, ch 1, turn. (53 sts)
Rows 2–53: Sc in each st across, ch 1, turn. Fasten off on final row.

Edging & sizing (work on both panels)

With the front side facing, starting at the bottom right corner, evenly space sc along the side edge of the pillow, 2 sc in the corner, sc along every stitch on the top, 2 sc in corner, down the side edge, 2 sc in corner, and along the bottom. Each row should be approximately one sc — so approximately 53 sts along the sides and top/bottom. Join with a sl st to first sc.

Each round of edging adds approximately ½”. If you’re working with a 16″ × 16″ pillow, only work one round. If your pillow is slightly larger, continue working rounds to ensure the best fit. The cover should not have any slack and should stretch comfortably to fit over the pillow or form.

Closing & finishing

Place the panels together with both right sides facing out. Work 1 sc into each st across the top, side, and bottom, working 2 sc into each corner. Insert the pillow form and close the last side by sc up the final side. Sl st into the first sc worked, fasten off yarn, and weave in ends.

dreidel crochet pattern

Working with the visual graph

Intarsia bobble stitch designs work much more smoothly when you have the visual color graph alongside the row-by-row instructions — you can easily see where your bobbles fall and quickly catch any miscounts. The complete printable graph is included in the ad-free PDF version on Etsy along with a digital row tracker that you can use on your phone or tablet to keep your place as you stitch.

Get the PDF + Graph + Tracker on Etsy →

Use code SEELOVE15 for 15% off

Make the full Hanukkah Bobble Stitch Pillow Set

Loved making this dreidel? The matching Menorah and Star of David pillow patterns complete the coordinated Hanukkah set. Each one uses the same bobble stitch + intarsia technique, so once you’ve worked through this dreidel, the others come together quickly.

More Hanukkah crochet patterns you’ll love

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