How to Crochet Easter Eggs - Crocheted Easter Eggs Tutorial

Learn how to crochet these adorable Easter eggs for Easter! Make up a bunch of these and display them in a crocheted doily bowl and you've got yourself a neat Easter center piece! These are relatively quick to make and are a great way to use up a sock yarn stash. I used Premier Yarns Deborah Norville Serenity Garden Yarn in Mountain Heather but any fine weight (2) yarn will work. Finished eggs are just over 2 1/2" tall. One skein of yarn will make 10-12 finished eggs. I used an F size (3.75mm) crochet hook to make these. Pattern: Join after each round into the top of the first sc of round or insert stitch marker after last stitch of round and omit joining. inc: 2 sc in the same stitch dec: insert hook into top of first stitch, yo, pull through loop, insert hook into top of next stitch, yo, pull through loop, yo, pull through all 3 loops on your hook rnd 1: magic ring and 6 sc in ring [6 stitches] rnd 2: inc around [12 stitches] rnd 3: (sc, inc) x 6 [18 stitches] rnd 4: (sc 5, inc) x 3 [21 stitches] rnd 5: (sc 6, inc) x 3 [24 stitches] rnd 6: sc 2, inc, (sc 7, inc) x 2, sc 5 [27 stitches] rnd 7: (sc 8, inc) x 3 [30 stitches] rnd 8: sc 4, inc (sc 9, inc) x 2, sc 5 [33 stitches] rnd 9-14: sc in each stitch [33 stitches] rnd 15: (sc 9, dec) x 3 [30 stitches] rnd 16: sc 4, dec (sc 8, dec) x 2, sc 4 [27 stitches] rnd 17: (sc 7, dec) x 3 [24 stitches] rnd 18: (sc 2, dec) x 6 [18 stitches] rnd 19: (sc, dec) x 6 [12 stitches] stuff with fiber fill or stuffing of choice rnd 20: dec x 6 [6 stitches] fasten off and weave tail into loops of all stitches and pull tight to close. Weave in end.