How many Crochet Easter Eggs will you be making?!! They work up so quickly, are fun to use for decor, to share, and best yet, they’re absolutely perfect for using up all the scrap yarn in your stash!
Make them solid, two-toned, striped, or more. Really they’re a blank canvas ready for whatever you might want to bring to them.
Love embroidery? I think that I’ll be pulling out my embroidery floss and adding some flowers, stems, designs, and fun scenery to some of the eggs.
More options include adding buttons, beads, sequins, lace, fabric, and paints. Oh, the possibilities! Whatever you end up deciding to do I wish you an enjoyable time!
Read on to learn more about my inspiration and yarn choice for the Crochet Easter Eggs or scroll down to the bottom to find the free pattern.
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The Inspiration
Really inspiration for the Crochet Easter Eggs project came from the pure fact that Easter is on its way.
I was thinking about the Easter and Spring projects already on the blog like the Spiked Stitch Basket, the Bobble Sheep, and the Cottage Garden Bunny to name a few, and thought to myself, what would be fun to add? What would people be able to use and enjoy? Perhaps something quick and fun too?
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My little brainstorm session left me filled with so many ideas that I could seriously be creating for a lifetime just on the Easter and Spring-themed items but in the end, I decided to go with Easter Eggs.
Some of my favorite memories of Easter while growing up are gathering with family or community and hunting for eggs. Sometimes they were plastic eggs filled with candies, trinkets, and coins, and perhaps now old school, the real hard-boiled colored and decorated eggs were the treats to be found.
Later these would be turned into deviled eggs, egg salad sandwiches, and a variety of egg dishes until you were most definitely finished eating eggs for a while.
No matter the type of eggs there was always the thrill of hunting for them and then gathering in smaller clusters with those friends and family in attendance to share the grand discoveries of who had the prettiest eggs and the grand surprises awaiting inside.
What do your Easter memories include? I hope that you enjoy making these fun, quick, happy, colorful eggs as much as I did. Wishing you happy memories and happy crocheting!
The Yarn
The Crochet Easter Eggs were made using Yarnspirations Caron Simply Soft. It is a well-known and widely available yarn both online and in many craft stores, long loved by many crafters because of its softness, ease of care, and wide selection of colors.
It’s a worsted weight, size 4, acrylic yarn that comes in a wide range of colors and styles including the regular simply soft solids, collection, heathers, tweeds, ombres, brites, stripes, paints, speckles, camos, party, marled, and several more! Truly a wide variety to choose from for any project!
Really any and all of these options would be great for making the Easter Eggs.
Caron Simply Soft has a super soft feel with a bit of a sheen which I think makes it all the more perfect for Easter projects. A little sparkle and shine make any holiday a bit more festive don’t you think?
The biggest complaint that I hear about Caron Simply Soft yarn is that it can have a tendency to split.
Honestly, I must agree that this can be the case. When I first started using the yarn I had more trouble than I do now.
Once I learned how my hook and crochet style interacted with the yarn I rarely have this issue. In fact, when it comes to acrylic yarns it has become one of my go-to yarns over the years for making amigurumi.
In this design, I specifically chose to use Caron Simply Soft regular solids in the colors Gold, Pagoda, Chartreuse, Persimmon, and Fuschia, going for more jeweled tones, but really any colors can be used.
That’s the fun about Easter eggs, they can be made in whatever color(s) make your heart happy! Let creativity abound with all the ways that you choose to add extras to your eggs. Think embroidery, lace, buttons, sequins. So many possibilities!
Substitutions. Any brand of worsted weight acrylic yarn should work well for making the Crochet Easter Eggs but note that due to variations among brands the finished size may vary slightly. Also note, if mixing yarn brands, that it’s important to ensure that the thickness of the yarns are the same to ensure consistency in stitching. If a cotton yarn is preferred, this too should work fine.
The pattern has not been tested using other sizes of yarn but should work just fine if accommodation for hook size is also made according to the yarn size used.
As always, I’d love to see/hear about your experiences with making the design and the products you chose to use. Tag me on social media @jenhayescreations to share!
The Pattern
Difficulty
Beginner
Materials
- Crochet Hook, Size E/4 (3.5 mm)
- Stitch Marker(s)
- Scissors
- Poly-fil Stuffing
- Tapestry Needle
- Chopstick, dowel, or something similar to help with stuffing
- Yarnspirations Caron Simply Soft (worsted 4-Medium, 100% acrylic, 315 yds/288 m, 6 oz/170 g), Colors shown include Gold, Pagoda, Chartreuse, Persimmon, and Fuschia, using approx. 23 yds/21 m per egg
Gauge
Using hook size E/4 (3.5 mm) the first 4 rounds of the egg measure approximately 1 3/8 inches (3.5 cm) in diameter.
Finished Measurements
Using hook size E/4 (3.5 mm) the Crochet Easter Egg measures approximately 2 ⅝ inches (6.7 cm) tall and approximately 6.5 inches (16.5 cm) in circumference.
Design Notes
- The pattern is written in English using US crochet terminology.
- The pattern is written in continuous rounds. It will be helpful to place a stitch marker at the beginning stitch of the round and move it up at the start of each additional round.
- At the end of each round, the number of stitches for completion is noted in parentheses.
- Further design notes, options, and tips will be provided throughout the pattern to help aid in construction.
Abbreviations/Stitches Used
- ch – chain
- Rnd(s) – round(s)
- sc – single crochet
- sc2tog – single crochet 2 stitches together (invisible decrease)
- sl st – slip stitch
- st(s) – stitch(s)
- [ ] / ( ) – work instructions between brackets as many times as directed
- magic circle/adjustable ring
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The egg is worked from the top down.
Change colors as frequently as desired.
>Design Tip: If making a striped egg, to help eliminate some of the stair-step/jogging look that occurs when changing colors, make the first stitch in the new color a slip stitch rather than a sc. Work into the sl st regularly, as the pattern directs, in the next round. Note that this technique works best when making stripes longer than one Rnd in length.
- Rnd 1: 6sc in an adjustable (magic) circle. (6sts)
- Rnd 1 alternative: If preferred, ch 2 and then 6sc in 2nd chain from hook. (6sts)
- Rnd 2: 2sc in each st around. (12sts)
- Rnd 3: [Sc in the next st, 2sc in next st] 6 times. (18sts)
- Rnd 4: Sc in the next st, 2sc in the next st, [sc in the next 2sts, 2sc in the next st] 5 times, sc in the next st. (24sts)
- Rnds 5-6: Sc in each st around. (24sts for 2 Rnds)
- Rnd 7: [Sc in the next 7sts, 2sc in the next st] 3 times. (27sts)
- Rnd 8: Sc in the next 4sts, 2sc in the next st, [sc in the next 8sts, 2sc in the next st] 2 times, sc in the next 4sts. (30sts)
- Rnds 9-16: Sc in each st around. (30sts for 8 Rnds)
- Rnd 17: [Sc in the next 3sts, sc2tog] 6 times. (24sts)
Firmly stuff and shape the egg and continue to do so as the pattern progresses.
- Rnd 18: Sc in the next st, sc2tog, [sc in the next 2sts, sc2tog] 5 times, sc in the next st. (18sts)
- Rnd 19: [Sc in the next st, sc2tog] 6 times. (12sts)
- Rnd 20: [Sc in the next st, sc2tog] 4 times. (8sts)
- Sl st to the first st and fasten off leaving a long tail to close up the hole. Close the hole with a tapestry needle stitching only through the front loops until the hole pulls nicely closed, secure, and weave in the end.
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