The Happy Hookers got Easter off to an early start this month with the creation of some lovely crochet Easter Eggs. A twig tree festooned with decorated eggs is a tradition in many countries and we thought it would be fun to create something similar without the worry of them breaking.
It involved the dreaded (by some) amigarumi technique, but the pain didn't last long as the eggs are small and don't need that many increases/decreases. The results are really lovely.
Wendy found a useful graphic recently which illustrates the resultant shape obtained depending on the starting number of stitches. It's slightly different for an egg shape - Bella Coco shows this clearly in her written pattern, or in her video if you prefer.
Gill watched a similar video and came up with a slightly different pattern to fit around the polystyrene eggs supplied for this make. The egg cover is worked in a spiral so you will need a stitch marker. NB the following instructions are in US terms.
Make a magic ring and crochet 6 singles into the ring and pull the magic ring tight
Row 2 - crochet 2 singles into each stitch (12 stitches)
Row 3 - crochet singles all the way round (12 stitches)
Row 4 - single crochet and increase in every other stitch all the way round (18 stitches)
Row 5 - crochet singles all the way round (18 stitches)
Put the crochet on the polystyrene egg to see if it is wide enough. If it is, continue with single crochet all the way round until the widest part of the egg. is reached. If not, continue to increase (i.e. single crochet x 2 stitches, 2 singles into one stitch and repeat all the way round to give 24 stitches and so on) until the make is wide enough
Put the egg in the crochet and start to decrease in the same way as the increases were achieved i.e. if the last row was 2 single crochet stitches followed by 2 stitches into one stitch and repeat all the way round, then the decrease row will be 2 single crochet stitches, followed by crochet 2 stitches together and repeat all the way round.
When there are 6 stitches left, take a needle and pick up the stitches and pull through to tighten
If you want to hang your egg, use your yarn to make 20 chains and cast off, then attach to one end of the egg
NB if your stitches are large you may need to skip the rows of singles in between the increase rows.