Easter is right around the corner and it’ll be the first year that we’ll make an egg hunt and fun activities like that for my daughter Melody who is 2 1/2 years old. Of course I had to make a little basket but to make it different of the traditional bunny I decided to go with a cute little chick coming out of his egg. As you can see it’s more of a decorative basket instead of a Easter egg hunt basket since it doesn’t have a handle but you could whip one up if you want. I also have a pig basket and a unicorn basket if you want to mix things up !
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Materials
- Worsted weight yarn in white and yellow for the basket. Yellow for the wings, orange for the beak and black for the eyes.
- 6mm crochet hook for the basket
- 4mm crochet hook for the eyes and beak
- tapestry needle
Measurements
- 6 inches in diameter and 4 inches for the height.
Abbreviations:
ch : chain sl st : Slip Stitch Sc : Single Crochet
Hdc : Half Double Crochet Dc : Double Crochet Tr : Triple Crochet
Inc : increase Dec : decrease
Notes
- For the basket I used a double strand to make the basket stiffer and hold his shape better.
- The eyes, wing and beak are made with a single strand of yarn.
Pattern
We will begin crocheting the base of the basket (working in joined rounds):
Using 6 mm hook and white yarn. (Double strands)
Round 1: Ch 1, 8 hdc in Magic Ring. Sl st to first hdc (8 sts).
R2: Ch 1. *Inc*, rep 8 times. Sl st to first hdc (16 sts).
R3: Ch 1. *Hdc 1, Inc*, rep 8 times. Sl st to first hdc (24 sts).
R4: Ch 1, *Hdc 2, Inc*, rep 8 times. Sl st to first hdc (32 sts).
R5: Ch 1, *Hdc 3, Inc*, rep 8 times. Sl st to first hdc (40 sts).
R6: Ch 1, *Hdc 4, Inc*, rep 8 times. Sl st to first hdc (48 sts).
We will now begin crocheting the body of the basket (still working in joined rounds)
R7: Ch 1, Hdc in back loop only around, Sl st to first hdc (48 sts).
R8-9: Ch 1, Hdc around, Sl st to first hdc (48 sts).
R10 A : Ch 1,in front loop only *sl st, sc, dc, tc, dc, sc* repeat between * until the end (48 sts).
Cut of white yarn and switch to yellow yarn
R10 B: Ch 1, in back loop only from the previous row. Hdc around, Sl st to first hdc (48 sts).
R11-14: Ch 1, Hdc around, Sl st to first hdc (48 sts).
Cut off yarn and rejoin 23 stitches away still with double strand.
We will do the little feather hair.
Ch3, hdc in second chain from the hook, hdc in next chain , slst in next stitch of the basket.
Ch4, hdc in second chain from the hook, hdc in next two chain, sl st in next stitch of the basket.¸
Ch3, hdc in second chain from the hook, hdc in next chain , slst in next stitch of the basket.
Fasten off and weave ends in.
** If you want to make your basket bigger simply continue after round 6 to increase your rounds until the desire size (for example the next round would be Ch1, *Hdc 5, Inc*, rep 8 times. Sl st to first hdc (48sts) and the next one Hdc 6 etc etc ). **
Wings (make 2)
Using 6 mm hook and yellow yarn. (Double strands)
Ch7, hdc in second chain from hook, hdc in each of the next 4 chains, 3 hdc in last chain, going on the other side of the chain, hdc in each of the next 4 chains, 2 hdc in last chain, join to first hdc with a sl st.
Tie off, keeping long tail to sew.
Beak
Using 4 mm hook and orange yarn. (Single strand)
Ch6, hdc in second chain from hook, hdc in each of the next 3 chains, 3 hdc in last chain, going on the other side of the chain, hdc in each of the next 3 chains, 2 hdc in last chain, join to first hdc with a sl st.
Tie off, keeping long tail to sew.
Eyes (make 2)
Using 4 mm hook and black yarn yarn. (Single strand)
4 hdc into a magic ring.
Tie off leaving tail to sew.
Using a little piece of white yarn and a tapestry needle pass the white yarn over a stitch.
Assembly
Center the beak under the feather hair over row 11 and 12.
Sew the eyes 2 stitches appart from each other between rows 13 and 14 right between the beak and feather hair.
Sew the wings 8 stiches from the beak on each side of the beak on row 12.
Make sure to weave all your ends in and you are done !
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