Fried egg crochet pattern — one piece, nine rounds, nothing to sew
This free fried egg crochet pattern makes a flat coaster about 11 cm across at its widest, worked on a 4.0 mm hook in two colours in under an hour. The counts are those of a plain circle — six, twelve, eighteen and on to fifty-four — but from round 5 the six increases are bunched along one side, and that is what makes the white spread into a puddle instead of a ring. All nine rounds are written out in one piece, each carrying the count it ends on.
Maths verified, not yet made. Every one of the 9 rounds was checked against the round before it by machine — the counts, the increases and the decreases all add up. What nobody can promise you yet is how it sits in the hand.How we check
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Why it is rated Beginner
Beginner: nine rounds, one piece, and single crochet throughout — where the increases land is a decision rather than a technique, and a wrong one still gives you an egg.
Sell what you make. Anything you crochet from this pattern is yours to sell — any quantity, no fee, no credit required.
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00What you need before you start
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What you need before you start
Yarn — two colours, all weight 4
scraps, about 5 gWorsted / aran cotton, CYC 4
about 20 g, well inside one skeinWorsted / aran cotton, CYC 4
Tools
5 you probably ownYou likely have
Tapestry needle
Scissors
Stitch markers
Measuring tape
Blocking pins and a mat
Optional
Felt or cork backing and fabric glue, if it will live under a mug
A stitch marker in a contrast colour for the round start
Gauge and finished size
the last check before you cast onTension
Not critical. Work tight enough that the white lies flat instead of curling up at the edge — a looser hand only makes a wider egg.
Finished size
~11 cm across at the widest, lying flat and unstuffed
Cotton at this hook keeps the fabric flat, which is what a coaster wants. A larger hook only makes a wider egg — the nine rounds and their counts do not change.
How to make the fried egg
Switching rewrites every round:US6 sc in mrUK6 dc in mrWork a US sc as a UK single crochet and the fabric comes out looser and taller.
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01The egg
A flat circle that starts yellow, turns white at round five, and…9 RNDS
starts in yolkYellow· magic ring· Piece 1 of 1
First six rounds[6] [12] [18] [24] [30] [36]
The yolk, worked even
RND 1–41[6]
2[12]
3[18]
4[24]
The white, worked uneven
RND 5–95[30]
6[36]
7[42]
8[48]
9[54]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasest(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneFasten off and weave the tail into the back of the last round. Hold it up before you cut — if the white came out too even, work one more round with all six increases in a single quarter and it will lean.
You are here
Eight notes on the fried egg
Read themClose
01An original Crochet Genie design.
02The fabric is plain single crochet all the way through — smooth and even, with no ribbing, clusters or gaps anywhere in it.
03Worked flat in a spiral, nothing to join and nothing to sew. Leave it unstuffed.
04The irregular outline is the whole charm. Each white round adds six increases, and where you put them is yours to choose: bunch four or five of them along one side of the round and spread the rest thinly around the other side. That side flares and ripples into a puddle, the quiet side stays tight, and the egg stops being a circle.
05Keep bunching on roughly the same side each round so the flare builds in one place instead of cancelling itself out.
06The pattern records six increases per round as a total, so the placement lives in this note rather than in the counted stitches — the app will count 6 inc and 42 sc for round 9 wherever you put them.
07The yolk sits dead centre, because a flat spiral grows outward from its middle and the colour change lands on a whole round. A real fried egg's yolk usually sits off to one side; this one does not, and that is a limit of working the whole thing as one piece.
08A light steam block on the finished piece settles the ripple without flattening it out.
Four questions this pattern answers
Not questions anybody asked. Each one is written from this pattern's own record, and every answer is read off the fields it names.
Can the fried egg be made with a different hook or yarn?
How much yarn will the fried egg take?
What hook will the fried egg need, and what is the finished size?
How long will the fried egg take to crochet?
A round that will not add up?
Tell us the piece and the round number — the stepper already knows where you are.There is nowhere to send one yet.
Put the laptop down mid-round
The iPhone app keeps your place — piece of 1, round of — and hands it back where you left it.
