About the Favorite Easter Egg 2021
Although this Favorite Easter Egg is released here in 2024, the design is back from 2021, when I made the Favorite Christmas Ornament 2021. It is exactly the same pattern – there are just a few changes in the number of stitches and rows, so we get this egg shape.
I absolutely love the design, and I think it’s perfect here for this egg too.
So grab that glitter yarn and all the nice spring colors 😍🌸🐣
Crochet time: 20-30 minutes
Skill level: Easy
Height: 5-6 cm
For the crochet pattern here, you must be able to make chains and single crochet + single crochet in the Back Loop Only (rib), so it’s not that complicated. You need to be able to make increases and decreases, and there are some different tips I have made a video on, so you can get it completely sharp. You can find that video here: Assembling of Favorite Christmas Ornament 2021 (same design – just changed number of stitches and rows). Click on the links here, or scroll all the way down to the bottom to see videos on the techniques.
You need …
The only glitter yarn I use is this “Lurex” from Lammy Yarns. It fits in crochet strength with cotton 8/4, and is just so beautiful and full of glitter! 😍
For the Favorite Easter Eggs in the pictures here, I have used the colors 02 Gold, 09 Pink, 20 Beige and 21 white (white is not recommended, because it just looks like plastic and no glitter).
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Before you get started
Before you get started with Favorite Easter Egg 2021, it’s very good to decide on your color changes. There are a whole lot of options, because you have a total number of 16 rows. As long as it just repeats the pattern/color changes all the way around. Here I have some different suggestions, but there are many more options than here:
The video here goes through the different techniques, and is a good support for the pattern. It’s a good idea to see it before you start, unless you are quite experienced 🤗
(Favorite Christmas Ornament 2021 and Favorite Easter Egg 2021 are based on the same design. The Easter egg here has a changed number of stitches and rows, but you can still use the tips in the video).
Solid color
The solid colors are really nice because there is still so much texture in the design.
3 rows + 1 row repeated
Here there are 3 rows of solid colour, and then 1 row of glitter (a bit hard to see on the white, but glitter thread is used). This is repeated 4 times to make it up to 16 rows in total.
2 and 2
Here there are (almost) used the same colors on 2 rows before the change. The pink/brown one has a few rows of glitter added, but the brown has 2 rows of solid colour, 2 rows of glitter.
1 and 1
Here I have changed the color after each row. On the pink one I have switched between rose cotton and rose glitter, and on the multi-coloured one I have used 4 colors repeated in the same order 4 times.
Turning Chain (tch)
You turn with a turning chain (tch). It’s a chain you use in the end of every row, to get up in height to the next row. You don’t crochet in it again, and it doesn’t count in the “stitch accounting”. Therefor you skip it and start in the loop after (2. loop from the hook), everytime you’ve made one.
Color change
When you make your color changes, you make them just before you make your turning chain (chain). When you have made the last stitch in the row, cut the yarn. Then you put the new color around the fingers, and crochet on, as if it were the “old” yarn you are crocheting on. You pull the new yarn through the loop and make a chain – that chain is your turning chain. Now it’s attached, you have made your turning chain, and you can crochet on.
Back Loops Only! … (almost)
When crocheting in the back loops, there are often holes in the edge/the ends. You can avoid them by making the very last stitch in the row in both loops.
Increase
At an increase: Insert the hook in the back loop in the stitch the first time, and in both loops in the same stitch the second time.
Decrease
At a decrease: Insert the hook in the back loop in the first stitch, and in both loops on the last stitch in the decrease.
In the starting chain, you just crochet as usual.
The pattern for the Favorite Easter Egg 2021
Start with a slightly longer end (20-30 cm) – it must be used for sewing together when you have finished crocheting 🤗 Feel free to start with cotton yarn, as the glitter yarn is not that strong to sew together with.
REMEMBER: All stitches in the back loops except the last stitch in the row (in the chain, you just crochet as usual), and to skip the turning chain (tch), and therefore start a new row in the 2nd stitch from the hook.
START Long start-end and chain 24 + 1 tch, turn
ROW 1 1 increase, 21 single crochet, 1 decrease, 1 tch, turn
ROW 2 1 decrease, 21 single crochet, 1 increase, 1 tch, turn
Repeat row 1-2 (meaning 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 etc.) until you reach 16 rows in total.
Finish with a chain, tighten it and cut the yarn.
Gather uuuup!
Lay your piece in front of you, so you have your long starting end to the right.
Sew it together, so you get a tube. Fold the ends in over the piece, and sew around so you start in the chain row, and sew it to the inner loop in the top row. That makes it pop up nicely like the other rows, and the seam becomes invisible. Tighten it well while sewing.
With some good large stitches, you sew around the ends. Then you can pull it together, so that the hole closes. If the hole isn’t completely closed or you want a certain color to meet in the middle, just take one more round. Here you only sew in the color you want to meet in the middle. It’s well explained in the video here.
Turn inside out and stuff it well. Then you take a new thread at the other end (or fit a new one if there are no threads from the color change) and sew around again.
Wow wow wow 😍
Well done! Now you are a Favorite Easter Egg richer. And most important: You have made it yourself 🌸🐣👏
I have made some helpful videos that should make it easier for you to understand the pattern. It’s just usually easier in live pictures 🙂 All videos are made and edited by Milla Billa. Music by www.bensound.com
