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What’s cuter than an Easter egg? A MINI Easter egg! From basket filler to an adorable amigurumi accessory, these mini Easter eggs can have a ton of uses! Crochet your own mini Easter egg by following my free pattern below.
Looking for an actual egg-sized Easter egg? Find my free pattern here!
Marcia Alpaca from Animal Friends of Pica Pau deserved an Easter makeover so I made her this mini Easter egg garland.
Skill Level: Beginner
Materials Needed:
- Crochet hook: B/2.25mm
- DK or light worsted yarn. I used Bernat Softee Baby Cotton in Duckling, Cotton, Blush and Jade Frost.
- Tapestry needle to weave in ends
- Polyfill stuffing
- Stitch markers to mark the beginning of each round if desired
Skills Needed and Abbreviations Used:
- Single crochet (sc)
- Adjustable magic circle (mc)
- working continuously in the round
- Single crochet increases (inc): make 2 single crochets in the same stitch
- Invisible decreases (dec): decrease in the front loop only
- Changing colors if wanted
- * * Instructions in asterisks means to repeat the instructions as many times as indicated
- The number in parentheses at the end of the round is the number of stitches you should have at the end of the round. Stitch markers are helpful for counting your stitches because then you know where your row began.
Gauge: Not too important. Use a small enough crochet hook to keep the stitches tight and the stuffing enclosed and invisible. Iβve used DK yarn here and recommend using that instead of worsted (4) because the curvature might be different.
Free Mini Easter Egg Crochet Pattern
Make a magic circle (MC)
Rnd 1: 6 sc in MC (6)
Rnd 2: *1 sc, 1 inc* 3 times (9)
Rnd 3: Sc around (9)
Rnd 4: *2 sc, 1 inc* 3 times (12)
Rnds 5-6: Sc around for two rounds total (12)
Rnd 7: *2 sc, 1 dec* 3 times (9)
Rnd 8: *1 sc, 1 dec* 3 times (6)
Finish off by cutting your yarn with a tail several inches long. Using your tapestry needle, thread your yarn and insert the needle in the front loop of the next stitch, needle point facing toward the inside. Pull the yarn through. Repeat in the next five stitches. Insert the needle into the hole created in the middle and exit somewhere else in the egg. Pull your yarn a bit to tighten and cut it.
Striped version
If you would like to make stripes, crochet Rnds 3 and 7 in a contrasting color.
Make the garland
To make a garland, crochet at least three eggs and string them on another piece of yarn. Add some pom poms for a cute twist!
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