Easter Eggs-travaganza: Add a Handmade Touch with Crochet Decorations
Easter is a time of renewal, hope, and joy, and why don’t we celebrate it by adding a handmade touch to the holiday decoration. you can elevate the experience by creating unique and personalized decorations with crochet. Choosing a different color for creation will give it an organic appearance like an egg.
MATERIALS:
- I use 100% Acrylic yarn in green apples, Kale, Cream, and green apples.
- Use a 5mm Crochet Hook
- Scissor
- Tapestry Needle
- Stitch Marker (Recommended)
ABBREVIATIONS:
- CH = Chain(s)
- DC = Double crochet
- FPDC = Front Post Double Crochet, Yoh and draw up a loop around the post of the next stitch at the front of work, inserting the hook from right to left. (Yoh and draw through 2 loops on hook) twice.
- HDC = Half double crochet
- MOHDC = Modify Half double crochet
- DCBP = Back Post-Double Crochet, Yoh and draw up a loop around the post of the next stitch at the back of work, inserting the hook from right to left. Yoh and draw through all loops on the hook.
- DTR2tog = Double Treble Cluster in the Same Stitch/Space
- DTR3tog =
- DTR4tog =
- DEC = Decrease
- INC =Increase
- Pat = Pattern
- Rep = Repeat
- RS = Right side
- Sc = Single crochet
- St(s) = Stitch(es)
- SLST = Slip Stitch
- SK = Skip
- Tog = Together
- WS = Wrong side
- Yoh = Yarn over hook
NOTE:
- Collar Size: 15~25cm (6-10″), 25~35cm(10-14″), 35~45cm (14-18″)
- Width:
- Length:
- Reference from offthebeatenhook, lookatwhatimade.net
INSTRUCTIONS:
WHOLE EGG:
- Rnd 1: Magic circle, SC 6x. (6)
- Rnd 2: INC 6x. (12)
- Rnd 3: [SC, INC]6x. (18)
- Rnd 4: [SC 2x, INC]6x. (24)
- Rnd 5: [SC 3x, INC]6x. (30)
- Rnd 6-12: SC 30x. (30)
- Rnd 13: [SC 3x, DEC] 6x. (24)
- Rnd 14: SC 24x. (24)
- Rnd 15: [SC 2x, DEC]6x. (18)
- Rnd 16: SC 18x. (18)
- Fiber Filling
- Rnd 17: [SC, DEC]6x. (12)
- Rnd 18: SC 12x. (12)
- Rnd 19:[SC 2x, DEC 2x)2x. (8)
- Fasten off to close the hole and weave in the end.
FRIED EGG:
- Rnd 1: In yellow, magic circle, SC 6x. (6)
- Rnd 2: INC 6x. (12)
- Rnd 3: [SC, INC]6x. (18)
- Rnd 4: [SC 2x, INC]6x. (24)
- Rnd 5: SC 24x. (24)
- Rnd 6: In white, FLO [SC 3x, INC]6x. (30)
- Rnd 7: [SC 4x, INC]6x. (36)
- Rnd 8: [SC 5x, INC]6x. (42)
- Rnd 9: [SC 6x, INC]6x. (48)
- Rnd 10: SC 4x, HDC 2x, DC2tog, HDC 2x, SC 6x, DC 4x, DC2tog, DC 2x, HDC, SC 4x. (54)
- Rnd 11: SC 4x, HDC 2x, DC2tog, HDC 2x, SC 4x, HDC, DC2tog, HDC, SC4x, SC 8x. (60)
- Rnd 12: SC 4x, HDC 2x, DC2tog, DC2tog, HDC 2x, SC 4x. (66)
- Fasten off weave in the end.
Half Hard Boiled Egg:
Outside
- Rnd 1: CH 2x,Make 3 sc in the second ch from the hook, turn. (3)
- Rnd 2: CH, INC 3x. (6)
- Rnd 3: CH, [INC, SC 2x]3x, turn. (9)
- Rnd 4: CH, SC 9x, turn. (9)
- Rnd 5: CH, [INC, SC 2x]3x, turn. (12)
- Rnd 6-9: CH, SC 12x, turn. (12)
- Rnd 10-12: CH, [DEC, SC 2x] 3x, turn. (9)
- Rnd 13-14: CH, [DEC, SC 2x] 3x, turn. (6)
- Rnd 15: CH, DEC 3x, turn. (3)
- Rnd 16: CH, SC3tog. (1)
- Fasten off and work away your ends.
Inside
- Rnd 1: In yellow, CH, Magic Circle. (6)
- Rnd 2: CH, INC 6x. (12)
- Rnd 3: CH, [INC, SC] 6x. In Cream, SLST. (18)
- Rnd 4: CH, [INC, Sc 2x, HDC2tog, HDC 2x, INC, SC 2x] 4x, SLST. (24)
- Rnd 5: CH, [INC, SC 2x, HDC2tog, DC3tog, HDC2tog, Sc 2x, INC, SC 3x] 4x, SLST. (33)
- Fasten off and work away your ends.
Assemble Outside and Inside
SLST around the half egg together, and fiber filling.
