FREE PATTERN: Easter Eggs

I've made these eggs a few times now, this year I decided to keep things simple and just use cotton yarn in beautiful pastel colors. But you can use all your creativity and make stripy eggs, decorate them with embroidery, buttons, sequins, felt and ribbons, the possibilities are endless.

It's a great pattern to try if you are completely new to crocheting toys - there's no sewing or complicated shapes and they work up really quickly, but you will learn the basics of crocheting amigurrumi.

SIZE

About 6.5 cm (2 1/2") tall and 4.5 cm (1 3/4") wide, when crocheted with fingering weight cotton yarn and a 1.75 mm crochet hook.

SKILLS REQUIRED

Magic ring
Crocheting in spiral
Chain stitch
Single crochet stitch (double crochet stitch in UK and Australia)
Increasing
Decreasing
Finishing a closed piece

YOU WILL NEED

Yarn. I used Madame Tricote Paris 'Camilla', a fingering weight 100% cotton yarn, 125 m / 50 g (136 yds / 50 g) / 14 wpi / 1: super fine. You will need about 8 g of yarn for each egg.
1,75 - 2,25 mm crochet hook or according to the yarn.
Polyester fiberfill, wool, wadding etc. for stuffing.
Yarn needle, scissors, stitch marker.

ABBREVIATIONS

mr, sc n = magic ring – crochet n (number) single crochet stitches into the adjustable loop.
ch = chain stitch.
sl st = slip stitch.
sc = single crochet stitch (double crochet stitch in UK and Australia).
sc n = crochet n single crochet stitches, one in each stitch.
inc = increase – crochet two single crochet stitches in the same stitch.
dec = decrease – crochet two stitches together using the invisible decrease method.
(sc 4, inc) x n = repeat the pattern between parentheses n times.
[36] = number of stitches in a round after finishing round.

NOTES

Work in a continuous spiral, do not join rounds or turn your work, unless instructed otherwise in the pattern.
Use a stitch marker or a piece of yarn to mark the end or the beginning of a round. Move the marker up after completing each round.
All stitches are worked into both loops, unless instructed otherwise in the pattern.

PATTERN

1: mr, sc 6 [6]
2: inc x 6 [12]
3: (sc, inc) x 6 [18]
4: (sc 5, inc) x 3 [21]
5: sc 2, inc, (sc 6, inc) x 2, sc 4 [24]
6: (sc 7, inc) x 3 [27]
7: sc 3, inc, (sc 8, inc) x 2, sc 5 [30]
8: (sc 9, inc) x 3 [33]
9: sc in each stitch [33]
10: sc 4, inc, (sc 10, inc) x 2, sc 6 [36]
11-15: sc in each stitch [36]
16: (sc 10, dec) x 3 [33]
17: sc 4, dec, (sc 9, dec) x 2, sc 5 [30]

Start stuffing the egg. Keep adding a bit of fiberfill after every couple of rounds, stuffing the egg firmly.

18: (sc 3, dec) x 6 [24]
19: (dec, sc 2) x 6 [18]
20: (sc, dec) x 6 [12]
21: dec x 6 [6]

Finish stuffing. Cut the yarn, leaving a long yarn tail, and fasten off. Thread the tail onto a needle and use it to pick up the front loops of all the remaining stitches and close the opening (TUTORIAL).

Fasten and hide all yarn tails. And done!

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me or leave a comment below, I am always happy to help.

I would love to see how your eggs turn out, so do post a photo my Facebook page or tag me in your social media posts, I'm @kristitullus on Instagram and Facebook.

Please do not post this pattern to your website or blog, instead post a link to https://kristitullus.com/blogs/news/free-pattern-easter-eggs. You MAY use this pattern as a teaching aid in any free class or e-course, or as part of a free crochet pattern, provided you credit me as the designer (Kristi Tullus, http://kristitullus.com).

Feel free to sell items made with this pattern.

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