Seasonal fun – the Easter Eggs crochet earrings pattern

So, you guys may not know this about me but I actually don’t care too much about holidays. I don’t decorate and for the most part I can’t even get into exchanging gifts and baking! I love to bake and I actually love giving gifts, knowing someone will love them that is. But as I move farther and farther away from my family I just can’t get my “want to celebrate” up. Eh. But you know what I do like? Seasonal crochet items! Halloween/fall earrings, snowflakes, and cupcakes. Well, I made some more:

What do you think?

Easter eggs:

Materials: 

• 2.00 mm steel crochet hook
• DMC Cotton Embroidery Floss
  • 4 colors
• Needle to weave in ends
• Fabric stiffener
• Metal Jump Rings and French hooks

Gauge:

• Not critical

Terms/ Stitches:

• Ch: Chain
• St: Stitch
• Sc: Single Crochet
• Sc2tog: Single Crochet 2 stitches together
• Dc: Double Crochet
• Dc2tog: Double Crochet 2 stitches together

Finished measurements: 

• Height: 1.5″ (not including metal jump rings and french hook)
• Width: 1.15″

Pattern instructions: 

Row 1: Color A: Ch 8, sc into second ch from hook -7 sc
Row 2: Turn, ch 1 (does not count as a stitch here), sc twice into first sc, sc across, sc twice into last St. – 9 sc
Row 3: Color B: Turn, ch 1 (does not count as a stitch here), sc twice into first sc sc across, sc twice into last st -11 sc
Row 4: Color C: Turn, ch 2, skip st, dc into next st (the ch 2 and dc count as a dc2tog), *ch 1, dc2tog w/ first leg (dc) of the st in the same st as the last dc then skip a st and place the next leg (dc) into the next st, * repeat from * to * 4 more times (last dc2tog has its second leg in the last st) – 6 dc2tog,
Row 5: Color D: Turn, ch 1, sc2tog in first 2 sts, sc across (including working into dc2togs and ch spaces), sc2tog I last 2 sts – 9 sc
Row 6: Turn, ch 1, sc across – 9 sc
Row 7: Color A: Turn, ch 1, s2tog in first two sts, sc across, sc2tog last two sts – 7 sc
Row 8: Color B: Turn, ch 2, skip sc, dc into the next st (the ch 2 and dc count as a dc2tog), ch 1, dc2tog w/ first leg (dc) in same st as last dc, skip the next st, dc second leg to next st, ch 1, dc2tog w/ first leg (dc) in same st as last dc, skip the next st, dc second leg to next st, ch 1, dc into last St – 3 dc2togs, 1 dc
Row 9: Color C: Turn, ch 1, sc first two sets together, sc across (including working into dc2togs and ch spaces), sc last two sts together – 5 sc
Row 10: Turn, ch 1, sc across – 5 sc
Row 8: Color D: Turn, ch 1, sc first two sts together, sc, sc last two scs together. -3 sc

Finishing:
Once you finish with weaving in all your ends, attach metal jump rings to the middle single crochet of row 8; attach french hooks to the jump rings. Then wet both earrings down with fabric stiffener and allow them to dry completely before you wear them.

Try out the pattern and let me know how it works for you. 😀

Also, just in case you were wonder, I have now added both the Meghan scarf and the Brittany scarf patterns to my website for $3.99.

And I’m working on writing up the pattern for the Amanda scarf,

if anyone would like to test it for me. 🙂