Hello Spring

Bring Spring inside your home! Whether subtle, colorful, or in trendy mixed materials look – let your creativity run free. Especially around Easter these decorative egg-shapes are a real eye-catcher.

The egg-shapes are quick to crochet and can be designed in a multitude of ways. Whether with crocheted decorative items, ribbons, buttons, tendrils… Decorate your egg-shapes just the way you want them to make them a perfect fit for you and your home.

Instructions for flowers, leaves, embroidery and the little egg are included in this pattern. As well as some design ideas.

All steps are explained in detail in words and pictures, so this pattern is suitable for (practiced) beginners as well.
This pattern contains 18 pages of crochet instructions and 20 pages of detailed step-by-step instructions.

For the egg-shapes single crochets, slip stitches, increases, (invisible) decreases, and crocheting in the back loops are used.
For the decorative items single crochets, half double crochets, triple crochets (instructions included), increases, (invisible) decreases, and crocheting in the back loops are used.

The items are crocheted in continuous rounds/spirals as well as back and forth in rows.

FORMAT

• pattern in PDF format (with watermarks)
• to open and read the file you need a specific program, e.g. Adobe‘s free Acrobat-Reader (www. adobe .com)

Both egg-shapes are crocheted with DK yarn or with two strands of Fingering or Sport yarn. With a 3.0 mm hook.
The decorative items are crocheted with Fingering or Sport yarn and a 2.5 mm hook.

DK yarn: e.g. Puppets Lyric 8/8
Fingering or Sport yarn: e.g. Catania Originals, Puppets Lyric 8/4

With yarn and hooks mentioned above the egg-shapes get to be 14 and 17 cm tall.
With lighter/heavier yarn the size varies respectively.

amount of yarn:

• small egg-shape: less than 1 skein of DK yarn (less than 2 skeins of Sport weight yarn)
• big egg-shape: a bit more than 1 skein of DK yarn (a bit more than 2 skeins of Sport weight yarn)
• fringe around the egg-shape base: DK/Sport weight scrap yarn
• small eggs & other crocheted items: scraps of Sport weight yarn