Crochet Easter Egg Pattern

These little eggs are so easy to work up and are a great way to use up extra yarn. They can be put on your spring nature table, given as gifts or even added in your child's basket. If you make enough of them maybe you can go on a hunt! You can do them all one color or you can keep changing yarn to make striped eggs.

Supplies Needed:

Extra Yarn

Play with Various Sized Crochet Hooks

Filling (wool is best)

Round 1: Ch 4, join with slip stitch to make a ring

Round 2: Make 6 sc inside the ring, join with slip stitch and add ring marker to help count rows

Round 3: *2 sc in next st, 1 sc in next 3 sts, rep from * around - the rest of the pattern will be worked in the round so you do not have to join with slip stitch at the end of each row... use stitch marker to gauge when to start next round.

Round 4: *2 sc in next st, 1 sc in next 4 sts, rep from * around

Round 5: *2 sc in next st, 1 sc in next 5 sts, rep from * around 

Round 6 *2 sc in next st, 1 sc in next 6 sts, rep from * around 

Round 7: * 2 sc in next st, 1 sc in next 7 sts, rep from * around 

Round 8: *2 sc in next st, 1 sc in next 8 sts, rep from * around 

Round 9: *2 sc in next st, 1 sc in next 9 sts, rep from * around 

Round 10: 1 sc in every st around 

Round 11: *sc 2 tog, 1 sc in next 3 sts, sc 2 tog, 1 sc in next 4 sts, rep from * again

Round 12: *sc 2 tog, 1 sc in next 2 sts, sc 2 tog, 1 sc in next 3 sts, rep from * again

Round 13: *sc 2 tog, 1 sc in next st, sc 2 tog, 1 sc in eext 2 sts, rep from * again

Stuff egg with fiber and continue to close off:

Round 14: sc 2 tog all the way around 

Close off with slip stitch at end and fasten. Weave ends. 

By the way, if you do not yet know how to crochet we have an amazing and very affordable online course for beginners. It is a full 5 week course which includes emails, a private group and video tutorials as well as personalized support from the instructor, myself and fellow students. You can start anytime and work at your own pace in the comfort of your own home.

We hope you join us and get HOOKED too! 

Beginner Crochet Five Week ECourse

Beginner Crochet with Instructor, Jennifer Tan

Only $34.95 for ALL 5 Weeks!

Learn how to crochet a variety of projects with one hook through a 5 week online course at Little Acorn Learning. Beginners and those who know a bit of crochet are welcome! Taught by fiber artist Jennifer Tan of Syrendell, this 5 week course includes step by step directions, tips and inspiration in words, pictures and video each week. 

Work at your own pace from home! 

What You Will Learn In This Course: 

1.  Basics of crochet, history, supplies, making a washcloth
2.  Three new stitches, making an afghan
4.  Basics of Tunisian crochet, history, supplies, making a scarf
5.  Two new Tunisian stitches, making a “knit-look” toy ball

Supplies You Will Need For Your Course:

1.     One size I or J or K crochet hook (we recommend wood for all hooks)
2.  One size L or M straight (no cable) Tunisian crochet hook
3.  6-10 skeins of yarn in different colors, worsted weight (or bulky weight if you want a chunkier look on any of the projects). Light to medium colors, only.  No multi-color skeins.  Wool is best, or a wool blend for 8 of the skeins.  If allergic to wool, alpaca, silk or acrylic blends are fine.  For the washcloth, 1-2 skeins of cotton yarn.  These skeins will get you started on the projects in the course.  

Jennifer Tan, MA is a fiber artist, professional flutist, aromatherapist and educational consultant who leads workshops for parents in the areas of Waldorf curriculum, homeschooling and handwork. Jennifer has 14 years of experience as a public school teacher, school principal and university professor. She has homeschooled her own three children in a Waldorf-inspired environment. Jennifer enjoys leading teleseminars, writing eBooks and sharing her love of yarn with others!  She may be reached through her website http://www.syrendell.com, blog www.syrendell.blogspot.com, or on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/syrendell.

Little Classes in My Home and Our Backyard Farm

Last week began a series of little classes I am offering in my old daycare space to children in town and in my neighborhood.  Nature Detectives is VERY full and each week we focus on a new subject of learning about nature.  Last week was The Sun and Sundials to celebrate the Summer Solstice. It was so nice to have neighborhood children walking to my house and friends of mine dropping off their children to spend the morning learning with us.

 We made pretty woven suns in miniature format from the tutorial in our Midsummer Festival E-Book (by the way, there is a SALE right now for only two more days!)

We also played fun nature games and made pocket sundials.

 The class is so big I employed my teenager to help as well as my friend who does the outdoor programs with me through Park and Rec.  It is so nice to have such a big response so soon... but it was also a lot of prepping and difficult to find enough activities to keep the children engaged for the full two hours.

 We also made simple paper plate sundials and tested them outdoors.  

My little Nature Detectives!  It's so funny how big my own daughters are compared to these children now. They are still willing participants in all of my classes but it's pretty obvious they are growing up and away from our Little Acorn days. 

 I also held my first Learn to Crochet class with a small group of girls last week.

Crochet is NOT easy to teach but once they mastered how to hold the yarn and hook, they were able to learn the chain stitch and made a VERY long chain that we turned into necklaces and belts. 

Tomorrow is week two of both classes.  I worked hard tonight preparing in advance and hope it goes ok.  

I also have a Mommy and Me Learn to Crochet Class starting on Thursday night. That should be really fun.  

In between, I've been working in the garden a lot.  

The chicks are getting SO big and they LOVE it when I take them into the garden to free range.  I let the bunny out too and it's so cute to see them all in there together. 

I think I may have two roosters though. They are still too young to know for sure but their combs are huge compared to their same breed sister and it's pretty obvious there is a distinct difference in the way they look, their size and also the noise they make. We will have to see how it all works out but I won't be keeping roosters... so we may be down to only 6 chickens. I knew I should have gotten more!