Easter eggs can be painted and dyed, pasted over with special thermal pictures or decorated with foil patterns. But you can come up with even more unusual options - for example, braiding the egg with wire, beads or homemade lace. These Easter souvenirs will be great gifts for family, colleagues and friends.
It is necessary
Knitting; - hook; - chicken eggs or wooden blanks; - satin ribbons
Instructions
Step 1
Think over the idea of a future souvenir. If you want to present a decorative egg on a stand, purchase a special wooden blank of the required size. Lighter options are needed to decorate bouquets and wreaths. Gently blow out the contents of the raw chicken egg by punching two holes in it.
Step 2
Try this technique of crocheting Easter eggs. Choose the right thread color. Cotton or acrylic in delicate shades - golden, pink, blue or pistachio - will do. Prepare matching satin ribbons.
Step 3
Cast on five air loops and close them into a ring. Continue in single crochet stitches, knitting two in each loop of the previous row. After two rows, start the pattern - in the first loop, knit two double crochets, skip the loop and repeat the pattern. Knit the fourth row in the same way, but instead of two stitches, knit three. In the next row, do four instead of three. You will end up with a small cap that gradually expands upward.
Step 4
Make petals along the edge of the cap. Tie a chain of five stitches and, skipping four stitches of the previous row, pull the chain through the fifth, securing it with a double crochet. In the next row, in each arch formed, knit 10 double crochets. The petal border can be made in a different color. Fringe with golden or silver thread looks very nice.
Step 5
Tie two caps and slide them over the egg at both ends. Now the halves need to be connected by stretching chains of air loops between them. The length of the connecting strands depends on the size of the egg. The chains can lie parallel or intersect with each other.
Step 6
To make the egg even more elegant, decorate it with narrow satin ribbons to match. Pass them between the loops of the connecting chains. Tie the ends of the ribbons with a small bow.
Step 7
At one end of the braided egg, make a long loop of ribbon. Now the souvenir can be hung on a pussy willow bouquet or to decorate an Easter wreath with it.
