Friday, March 29, 2013

Easter Blog Bash -- Crocheted Eggs

Some friends and I are doing Easter related blog posts.   I have posted the links to each of their blogs at the end of this post.

This is a crocheted Easter egg pattern I found on Pinterest.   Here is the link for the  Crocheted Egg Pattern.   These eggs are crocheted around plastic eggs, which I had never done before.  I used worsted weight yarn that I had on hand, but I did have to use larger hooks for both the eggs and the flowers.  She used a size G-hook for the eggs and a D-hook for the flowers, but I used a range between G-I sized hooks for the eggs and size E-G for the flowers.  When I used the G or H hook I had to add another increase row.  I don't know if it is just my tension or that my plastic eggs were larger than hers.

These are the ones I made:


Here are some Easter eggs that I made up several years ago.  I used Patons Grace yarn which is 100% mercerized cotton.  They are pretty similar to the pattern above, but I filled them with cotton or poly fill instead of using a plastic egg.  The baskets I started the same way as the eggs, but added a couple more increase rows before doing just single crochet rows.   Then the handle is just a chain connected to the basket.  These are fun little projects that are nice to give as gifts.
 
 
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Here are the other blogs that have Easter blog posts that you may like to see:
Becca's Blog
Spencer's Blog
Justin's Blog

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Baby Boy Diaper Cover


I been thinking that my blog is named Handwork by Hannah and I haven't had anything I've crocheted or knitted on my blog for a while.  So here is a baby boy diaper cover (they are also called soakers) I just finished.

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