Chicken egg / Easter egg

Crochet pattern by Kristi Tullus

Make yourself some colorful Easter eggs to decorate your house, play egg hunting with your toddlers or make a basketful to give as a gift. Or use a white or brown yarn for a more realistic-looking play food and fill a whole carton. Pattern is written in English using standard US crochet terminology. Size: If you use 4 ply cotton yarn (125m/50g, 137yds/50g) and a 1,75 mm crochet hook, your eggs will be about 6 cm (2.4 in) high and 4,5 cm (1.8 in) wide. Skills required: magic ring (starting with an adjustable loop), single crochet stitch, increasing, decreasing, finishing a closed piece, knotting and hiding yarn tails. If you need help, take a look at my crochet photo tutorials or ask me a question kristi@spire.ee sidrun.spire.ee www.facebook.com/sidrunszoo

Tip! You can use the same pattern to make larger or smaller eggs by using finer or bulkier yarn. Pick a crochet hook at least a size smaller than suggested on yarn label. Use a hook as small as possible in order to achieve a tight gauge that retains stuffing and does not allow it to show through the fabric.

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Materials & tools: Cotton yarn. I used 4 ply cotton, 125m/50g (137yds/50g) (Madame Tricote Camilla, Steinbach Wolle Capri), but any yarn can be used. You will need about 6-10 g of yarn. Steel crochet hook (thread hook) 1,75mm (US size 4) or according to the yarn. Stuffing polyester fiberfill, wool, wadding etc. Scissors, yarn needle, stitch marker. Beads, buttons, embroidery floss, ribbon for decorating, thread and sewing needle. Abbreviations: 1: - number of round. mr, n magic ring, crochet n sc into the adjustable loop. sc single crochet stitch, through both loops of a stitch. sc 4 make four single crochet stitches, one in each stitch. inc increase, make two sc from the same stitch. dec decrease, use invisible decreasing. 5,6 dec crochet 5th and 6th stitch together, one sc into every other stitch. sc 4, inc, repeat [1/3] (36) repeat the sc 4, inc pattern, but make one of the first four single crochet stitches at the beginning and three at the end of the round. In other words - sc, inc, (sc 4, inc) x 5, sc 3. sc 4, inc, repeat [1/3] (36) number of stitches in a round after finishing said round.

Notes:
Do not join at the end of each round, work in a continuous spiral. Use a stitch marker or a piece of yarn to mark the end or the beginning of each round. Move the marker up every round. All stitches are worked into both loops, unless stated otherwise in the pattern.

CHICKEN EGGS
1: mr, 6 2: inc around 3: (sc, inc, sc 2, inc) x 2, sc, inc 4: (sc 3, inc) x 4, sc 5: (sc 6, inc) x 3 6: (sc 7, inc) x 3 [3/4] 7: (sc 8, inc) x 3 8: sc 5, inc, sc 16, inc, sc 7 9: sc 15, inc, sc 16 10: sc 32, inc 11-13: sc in each stitch 14: 1,2 dec, 18,19 dec 15: sc 8, dec, (sc 9, dec) x 2 16: (sc 8, dec)x2, sc 7, dec[3/5] 17: (sc 5, dec, sc 4, dec) x 2 18: (sc 4, dec, sc 3, dec)x2[2/2] 19: (sc, dec) x 6 20: dec around (6) (12) (17) (21) (24) (27) (30) (32) (33) (34) (34) (32) (29) (26) (22) (18) (12) (6)

* Eggs are crocheted from the top down. Start the egg with an adjustable loop and pull it tightly closed to avoid a hole in the top of the egg. * Start stuffing the egg after round 17. Stuffing is what gives your finished piece the shape, so take your time to fill the eggs properly. Loosen the stuffing between your hands and add a little bit at a time. Keep adding the stuffing until your eggs are firm and hold shape. * Make the egg, stuff it firmly and fasten off. Cut the yarn leaving a short tail. Pull it through the loop and thread onto a yarn needle. Close the opening by picking up all the remaining stitches and pulling the center closed. * Bring the yarn to the side of the egg, fasten with a double knot and hide the tail.

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