Possessing certain skills and abilities, you can make something incredible and beautiful for any holiday, able to improve the mood for both the owners of the house and the guests. Easter in this sense was no exception. Since boiled eggs are considered the main symbol of this holiday, it is possible to decorate them in the first place. So, how to crochet Easter eggs?
Jewelry Options
You can make an ordinary knitted egg or add to it bead patterns, ribbons, sparkles, sequins. Another option is not only to tie the holiday symbols themselves, but also to add peculiar accessories to get, for example, knitted Easter eggs in a basket. Some craftswomen go even further and knit not just openwork patterns, but whole figures of animals. Such Easter eggs will be especially interesting for children.
The first way, the classic
How to crochet easter eggs? A dense product is knitted, stuffed with a synthetic winterizer, decorated. To do this, you will need any yarn you like, simple or sectional, a suitable hook, padding pad for stuffing. A chain of seven air loops is dialed, locked into a ringlet. The second row knits as many SC. The next row already consists of fourteen loops. The fourth row is also fourteen. In the fifth row, again you need to add seven SC. The sixth row repeats the same number - 21 loops. In the seventh row, the addition of 7 columns again, that is, in each third loop, a column is added. The result is twenty-eight stitches. From the eighth to the thirteenth row, this number is repeated, and from the fourteenth it starts to decrease as much as it was added, that is, seven loops. The fifteenth row consists of 21 loops, in the sixteenth the number again decreases, to fourteen. The seventeenth is knitted without changes, the eighteenth reduces the number of loops by seven. Now the egg can be filled with filler. In the nineteenth row, each column is knitted through the loop of the previous row, and all remaining loops are pulled together. The thread is fixed. Everything, the work is finished.
Second way
How to crochet Easter eggs if you want something more original? You can make printed animal figures. Bright and colorful, they will decorate any table. Yellow chickens, white bunnies and mice will please both adults and babies. The body of the figure is knitted with a dense crochet according to the scheme described in the first method. When the product is finished, you need to sew on the connected ears (round for mice, long for hares), crests for chickens and make faces: it is enough to make eyes, noses and beaks. The final touch will be the paws (only the upper ones are enough), wings and tails. It remains to put funny figures on the festive table.
The third way: the main part
And how to crochet Easter eggs, if you want to make them openwork, airy and transparent, in the form of a case for a real egg? It is still simpler here. A beautiful thin yarn is taken, for example, “Iris”, a thin hook (you can take 1.5 mm), a boiled egg. An air loop is crocheted, two more loops are drawn into it, and ten single crochets are crocheted in the second loop. At the end of the row, knitting is closed in a circle. Now the second row: one loop for lifting, a column in the connecting loop, after which three air loops are connected in a circle, connected by a column with the previous row. So to the end, all ten arches. In the third row four air loops are knitted, then a column in the arch of the second row, all the same ten arches will be obtained, already four loops in each. The next five rows are knitted the same way: in each arch, five air loops are knitted, and each of them is connected to the previous row using a single crochet. Arok is still ten.
Egg cap
Now that the Easter eggs are almost crocheted, you can start making the “cap”. The exact same first loop is made as at the beginning of knitting, two more are knitted into it, five single crochets are made into the resulting chain, everything is closed in a circle with the help of a connecting column. Now you need to collect four air loops, connect them in a column with the next loop of the row, and thus knit only five arches. After this, the thread can be cut, the tail fixed and hidden.
Halving
It remains only to connect the Easter eggs crocheted (patterns for such knitting are always very simple and understandable). This can be done in two ways: using a tape or a simple seam with a thread and a needle. If everything is clear with a needle, then with a tape a little more complicated. The lower part of knitting is taken, a boiled egg is pushed into it, covered with a lid. Now the halves are connected with a thin satin ribbon, which with a hook must be passed through the arches of both parts of the knitted egg. The ribbon should be tied with a bow so that you can easily dissolve it. It remains only to put the resulting beauty on the table.