Crochet Easter egg basket with handles and flower applique
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The pattern can be easily adjusted to any size of an egg. For this tutorial I am using a 3mm crochet hook and a “normal” or a standard size egg.
The increase is of the number of six (6) until you reach the desired size of the bottom of a basket.
For my egg and my crochet hook I only needed to go up to stitch count of 36. If you need a smaller basket, then you can stop at 30 stitches or 24 and if you want to make a bigger basket then you can continue with the increases of 6 until the size you want (42 or even 48 stitches).
The stitches used in this pattern for the tulip flower egg basket are:
- magic ring
- sl st – slip stitch
- ch – chain stitch
- sc – single crochet stitch
- inc – increase single crochet stitch – make 2sc in 1
Materials needed for the letter:
- crochet hook (3 mm) for the basket and a (1.5mm) for the flowers and leaves
- yarn (appropriate size for the crochet hook) – beige for the basket, yellow for the flowers and green for the leaves
- scissors
- needle
Pattern:
Starting with base color of white:
- R1: 6sc – 6st
- R2: 6inc – 12st
- R3: {sc, inc} x6 – 18st
- R4: {sc, sc, inc} x6 – 24st
- R5: {sc, sc, sc, inc} x6 – 30st
- R6: {sc, sc, inc, sc, sc} x6 – 36st – join last stitch in the back loop only
- R7: 36sc in the back loop only – 36st
- R8, R9, R10, R11, R12 : 36sc – 36st
- R13: (6sc, ch5, skip 4 st, 8sc) x2
- R14: (6sc, 8sc in the loop of ch5, 8sc) x2
cut yarn, join invisibly
Pattern for the flower applique:
- magic ring
- (ch3, dc, ch3, sl st) x5
cut yarn and fasten off
The diagram for crochet flower:
Pattern for the leaf:
- ch6,
- in each of the chain do (ch1, sc), hdc, dc, dc, hdc, sc
cut yarn and fasten off
The diagram for crochet leaf:
You can check how it is done in my YouTube video tutorial:
Happy crafting
Alex xx
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