Spring arrives this week on Friday, March 20th, so our challenge this week is to crochet and decorate an egg. While most of us associate decorated eggs with Easter, the early symbolism of the egg relates to fertility, life, and the renewal of life.
Click here to read a great article about the history of eggs from foodtimeline.org. Scroll down to the symbolism section.
I crocheted my egg using yarn that I had dyed with Kool-aid, but there are many ways to decorate your egg. You could add beads, “paint your yarn”, add tiny flowers, make it into an amigurumi chick, whatever you wish.
Below is my egg pattern to get you started. Have fun with it and be creative!
Egg – cellent egg crochet pattern
Materials:
Small amounts of medium weight yarn, size H (5 mm) crochet hook, polyester fiberfill for stuffing, stitch marker.
Special stitch: single crochet decrease (sc dec)
I like to use an invisible sc dec when I am crocheting amigurumi, or anything where you won’t see the wrong side. It is worked over two stitches to form a decrease.
Insert hook in front loop of the first st. Keeping this loop on your hook, insert the hook in the next st through the front loop. You will have 3 loops on your hook. Draw your yarn through 2 of the loops on your hook. Yarn over, and draw through the 2 remaining loops on your hook to complete the stitch.
Notes: this egg is worked from the top down in a continuous spiral. The pattern does not include striping instructions, and I chose to make my sample sample using the continuous spiral because I didn’t want a seam. If you want to crochet stripes and keep them even, you can end each round with a slip stitch in the beginning stitch. To begin the next round, ch 1 and sc in the same stitch.
Instructions:
Rnd 1 (RS): ch 2, work 6 sc into 2nd ch from hook. (6 sc)
Rnd 2: 2 sc in each sc. (12 sc)
Rnd 3: *sc in next sc, 2 sc in next sc. Rep from * around. (18 sc)
Rnd 4: sc in each sc.
Rnd 5: *sc in next 2 sc, 2 sc in next sc. Rep from * around. (24 sc)
Rnd 6: sc in each sc.
Rnd 7: *sc in next 3 sc, 2 sc in next. (30 sc)
Rnd 8 thru 11: sc in each sc.
Rnd 12: *sc in next 3 sc, sc dec. Rep from * around. (24 sc)
Rnd 13: *sc in next 2 sc, sc dec. Rep from * around. Stuff with fiberfill. (18 sc)
Rnd 14: *sc in next sc, sc dec. Rep from * around. (12 sc)
Rnd 15: *sc dec. Rep from * around. (6 sc)
Fasten off leaving a length for sewing, and sew remaining rnd closed.
Abbreviations:
Ch(s) – chain(s)
Rnd(s) – round(s)
RS – right side
Sc – single crochet
Sc dec – single crochet decrease
St - stitch
How will you decorate your egg? Celebrate spring and enjoy!
it is eggcellent!
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