Crazy Easter Chicken

 

https://www.etsy.com/pl/listing/775169328/crochet-pattern-no-2006-crazy-easter?ref=shop_home_active_1

Crochet chicken is around 26 cm (10.2 inches) tall when standing.

Easter Sheep

Easter sheep is around 20 cm (7.9 inches) tall when sitting down. I made it as an Easter gift for my mom, but as I made one I immediately fell in love – it’s sooooo adorable! I have to make (at least) one for myself now :)

 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/687889053/crochet-pattern-no-1905-easter-sheep-by?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Easter Thumper Rabbit from Bambi ETSY pattern

Thumper is a rabbit from Bambi. He is known and named by his habit of thumping his foot. Thumper pattern is now available to buy at my etsy shop:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/271256172/crochet-pattern-easter-thumper-rabbit?ref=shop_home_active_1

 Crochet Thumper when finished is 17 cm (6.5 inches) to the end of head, 23 cm (9 inches) with ears pointed up.

 

This 16 page PDF tutorial contains more than 50 photos and detailed instructions on how to crochet the toy. It is written in English with standard crochet terms. It contains 1 page with abbreviations (You can always check the symbol).

 

Bunny key chain

I don't know what is it about Easter season that everything looks like cute little bunnys and fluffy yellow chickens, but it may be just because I am pregnant. Anyway this month I made more bunnys and rabbits than in my entire crochet carrier :) So I proudly present my newest creation - Key chain bunny.

In early design phase he was suppose to be a brooch, but I decided on key chain later on. I think I will make another one for brooch as soon as I will get some time. That is the greatest thing about such small projects they don't take that much time to make and You can see the effect very soon.

I was looking for the other elements in store that could be used for crochet I already made: hair clips, brooch ( I have a few of these left so wait for another projects) and now the key chain.

Materials:

• grey, pink, orange, green yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• hook 3 mm
• 2 black beads ( 4 mm would be best)
• cotton or something else You will use as filament
• key chain element if You want it to be the key chain

Pattern:

Head - make 1

grey yarn

R1: 6 sc in MR (6)


R2: inc around (12)

R3: * sc 3, inc 3 * X2 (18)

R4 - R5: sc around (18)

R6: * sc 4, dec * X3 (15)

R7: * sc 3, dec * X 3 (12)

R8 - R9: sc around (12)

stuff

R10: dec 6 (6) FO

Chocobo!

What comes from a combination of fantasy and Easter - the largest known version of chicken - Chocobo :) If there is anyone who doesn't know Chocobos are super cute creatures from Final Fantasy video games. I can even remember them from a versions they were a bunch of yellow pixels, and let me tell You they were already cute!

I just finished him, it took so much time and so much yarn ... (I seriously don't have any yellow yarn in my entire house). I wrote down the pattern but I think it will take me some time to make the complete post with pattern. 

But after making these photos I could not wait to share them with you! He is all wired inside, so it is fully adjustable and therefore so photogenic. I am so pleased he can stand an sit and look great in almost every position. I think he will be the biggest decoration of our Easter table and when I say biggest I mean it :) He came up quite large but we will find the place, who cares about food, right?.

What do you think?

Easter is coming....

Easter is coming so, so fast so we all need to hurry with our Holiday crochet and table decorations. I am actually way forward because I menage to save some of my last year egg cozies. I made a lot of cozies last year :D Maybe I will menage to make one more this year! Do You have any ideas or requests? What cozies would You like me to make? Please write in comments.

Meanwhile I decided to clean up the last year patterns for cozies and here I will give You links to all of them.

Every cozy is made from the base and other elements
The first link is for the base of cozy:

BASE COZY

Links for each cozies:

1. Sheeps

SHEEP COZY

2. Flowers

FLOWER COZY

3.Hens

HEN COZY

4. Superbunny and Bunnyman



SUPERHERO BUNNY COZY

5. Mickey and Minnie Cozies

MiCKeY and MiNNie COZIES

6. Yellow chicks

CHiCKEN COZY

Potted plant decoration - Flowerman

Flowerman - As always, he is not the cutest or the prettiest one, but certainly my favorite! He is so weirdly cute that he makes me smile every time I look at him. He reminds me of some old RPG games, where he would be one of the easiest, lame enemies You fight when You are level 1 :)

Materials:

• yellow, green, blue or pink yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• hook 3 mm
• white sheet of foam (mine is 1 mm thick) for eyes
• 2 black beads ( 4 mm would be best)
• clothes pin - the best would be the smaller version - 3 cm 
• hot glue gun
• cotton or something else You will use as filament

Pattern:

Potted plant decoration - Ladybug

Materials:

• black, red  yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• hook 3 mm
• white sheet of foam (mine is 1 mm thick) for eyes
• 2 black beads ( 4 mm would be best)
• clothes pin - the best would be the smaller version - 3 cm 
• hot glue gun
• cotton or something else You will use as filament

Pattern:

Easter egg decoration - Sheep

Sheep I made some time ago for my Mom ( She collects sheep of any sorts and kinds). They are wonderful to decorate your table for Easter or basically any other occasion You serve eggs. They look really wonderful, a bit silly maybe but mostly very very cute.
When I was making pictures for this pattern I had this fantasy about making the whole flock of white sheep with only one black in the middle. What a wonderful table decoration that woud be. Anyway I recommend You to make at least two from the pattern below.

Special thanks to +Lương Bình who motivated me to write this pattern :)

Materials:

• white, black, brown, beige yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches/10 cm )
• hook 3 mm

Pattern:

Potted plant decoration - Silly Bee

I created this plant decorations to add a bit of color to my plants, which bloom but only occasionally. For the rest of the year when they are just green :) I like to make them more interesting.
Silly Bee is the first one of my "Potted Plant Decoration" series. Please see the pictures below for the sneak peek of other members of this family.

Materials:

• black, blue, yellow  yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• hook 3 mm
• white sheet of foam (mine is 1 mm thick) for eyes
• 2 black beads ( 4 mm would be best)
• clothes pin - the best would be the smaller version - 3 cm 
• hot glue gun
• cotton or something else You will use as filament

Pattern:

Easter Egg - Chicks

On special request I wrote down a pattern for chicks. Enjoy!

Materials:

• yellow, orange, red and white yarn 
• thick black thread for eyes
• hook 3mm 

Base of egg warmer:

http://krawka.blogspot.com/2014/07/projekt-jajo-ogolny-wzor-na-ocieplacz.html

Pattern:

Superbunny and Bunnyman - Easter egg cozies

Egg Cozies Easter Project - Flower

Those spring, colorful crochet flowers looks great as a decoration not only for Easter table. I would love to see the whole set of them all in different colors to cozy a dozen of eggs.

I strongly recommend this pattern for everyone who is starting to learn crocheting. All You need is a crochet hook (3 mm) and few colors of yarn, 3 at least green, yellow and one other color for petals
( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches if You would like to know more please write me a message and I will tell You the exact yarn I use)
Back to pattern It's really easy to follow, very fast to make all the parts for flower plus it's not that much sewing which is important for the starting projects in which You don't have so much experience.

Abbreviation You will need to know to follow this pattern:

MR - magic ring - it's one of the most common ways to start amigurumi. It's easier to see than to write bout it so I would advise You to see how to make MR for example here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLUaywX0-WE
It's not my video I'm only providing a link cause I think it's very clear and easy to follow.

sc - single crochet

sc 3 - make 3 single crochets in next 3 chains

inc - increase, make 2 single crochets in one chain

dec - decrease, make 1 crochet from 2 chains of last round
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcycT1YmSSM
Again I'm not the author of this video.

When You now the abbreviation You can start to make parts of Your flower ( free pattern for each part below)

Projekt jajo - myszka Miki i Mini

Easter egg cozies - Hens.

One of the first warmers that I made for my friend and her unmarried partner: D.

Base of egg warmer:

http://krawka.blogspot.com/2014/07/projekt-jajo-ogolny-wzor-na-ocieplacz.html

Materiały (Materials):

• yellow, orange, white, red, brown yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches/10 cm )
• 3 mm hook

Pattern:

Eye :

white yarn

R1: 6 sc in MR (6)

R2: inc around (12)

R3: sc around (12) FO

When eye base is finished use black thread and sew pupils in the middle of the eye


Beak:

yellow yarn

R1: 6 sc in MR (6)

R2: sc around (6)

R3: * inc, sc 1 * X3 (9)

R4: sc around (9) FO


The thingies under the beak - make 2 for each hen:

red or orange yarn

R1: 5 chains (5)

R2: in second chain from the hook ss, ss, sc 1, 3 sc

working on the other side of the chain, starting in the fourth chain of chain from the round 1:

R3: sc, ss 2 FO


Cockscomb - 3 for each one

red or orange yarn

R1: 6 sc in MR (6)

R2: sc around (6) FO



Legs - Make 2 for each hen

yellow yarn

R1: 8 ch, inc - in 2-nd chain, ss, 2 ch, inc in 2-nd ch, ss in same ss marked red, 2 ch, inc in 2-nd ch, ss in red ss, 4sc in the chains from the beginning. .
(so You should end where You started)

Egg Cozies Easter Project - Base pattern for cozies - FREE

 A simple idea for Easter gifts for family and friends - egg warmers :) or as You prefer Egg Cozies
Easter is such a wonderful time. I love this Christmas especially because of  color and flowers and warmth - well that isn't so sure actually two years ago we had snow on Easter, my godson was building snow rabbits in the garden :D. But what I like about Easter most of all is all the arts and crafts that comes with it.

Since I remember we were painting Easter eggs, for almost 10 years now me and my husband are competing whose eggs will be the best. I need to say my always won cause they were much more commercially friendly for the whole family to vote :) They were filled with cute chickens and bunny's while my husband painted hell hounds and crazy rabbits and whatever his crazy imagination told him. I actually always like his creations most and it actually tough me to think both:inside and outside the box :) In other words to make simple-obvious projects and creative-crazy too.

So beside the egg painting I was also trying to figure out other Easter projects that would give vent to my creativity and christmas spirit. That's how the egg cozies project was created. I wanted to decorate eggs in some other way than painting. Firstly I was going to make one pair of cozies for my table but I couldn't decide what to make I especially wanted to make Mickey and Minnie pair but I new it wasn't very Easter-y so I ended up making a bunch of cozies for my friends and family. I made sheeps, chickens a lot of rabbits, zombie sheep and rabbit :D

It's all based on one cozies crochet base (pattern below), which is very easy to make. I suppose there can be some differences in egg sizes (mine were quite big :) so when You will be making Yours please remember to try them on before making a lot of them.

If You like make Your own cozies with my base pattern or use ones I already made I wrote down the patterns:

Sheep
http://krawka.blogspot.com/2014/10/easter-egg-decoration-sheep.html

Chicks
http://krawka.blogspot.com/2014/07/projekt-jajo-kurczaczki.html

Flowers
http://krawka.blogspot.com/2014/07/projekt-jajo-kwiatki.html

Mickey & Minnie
http://krawka.blogspot.com/2014/07/projekt-jajo-myszka-miki-i-mini.html

and lastly SuperRabbit and Rabbitman they are a little differently made but are very very cute. I couldn't give them to anyone and I had to keep them :)
http://krawka.blogspot.com/2014/07/superkrolik-i-krolikman.html

I also wanted to add that this is such an easy project I recommend it to anyone who is learning to crochet, especially easy are flowers. Enjoy the free pattern and please don't forget to send me photos of Your creations.
And Happy Easter (if it's actually Easter when You are reading this:)

Materials:

•  yarn of the desired color  ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• 3 mm hook

Pattern: