Crochet egg pattern — one piece, fourteen rounds, speckles at the end
A speckled egg about 6 cm tall and 4 cm across, worked on a 3.5 mm hook in one shell colour with two more for the markings, in about three quarters of an hour. The egg shape is in the closing: rounds 11 and 12 take out three stitches each where a ball would take out six, so the top tapers over four rounds while the base stays blunt. This crochet egg pattern writes out all fourteen rounds with the count each one ends on.
Maths verified, not yet made. Every one of the 14 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: one piece, plain single crochet from the ring to the last round, and no colour change at all — the markings are French knots worked after it is closed.
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00What you need before you start
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What you need before you start
Yarn — three colours, all weight 3
1 small ball (~15 g)DK cotton or a smooth DK acrylic
scrapsDK cotton, split to 2 plies for finer knots
scrapsDK cotton, split to 2 plies for finer knots
Tools
3 you probably own, 1 to buyYou likely have
Tapestry needle
Scissors
Stitch markers
You need to buy
Polyester stuffing (~8 g)
Optional
A stitch marker in a contrast colour for the round start
A plastic pellet bag if you want the egg to sit heavy in the hand
Gauge and finished size
the last check before you cast onTension
Tight enough that the stuffing does not show between stitches. A looser hand only makes a larger egg.
Finished size
~6 cm tall and ~4 cm across
Cream instead of the robin's egg blue reads as a quail's egg and takes the same chestnut and pink knots. Worsted on a 4 mm hook gives a larger egg on the same fourteen rounds.
How to make the speckled bird 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
Open out to twenty-four, run straight for six rounds, then close the…14 RNDS
starts in robinsEgg· magic ring· Piece 1 of 1
First six rounds[6] [12] [18] [24] [24] [24]
Opening the base
RND 1–41[6]
2[12]
3[18]
4[24]
Straight sides
RND 5–105[24]
6[24]
7[24]
8[24]
9[24]
10[24]
Narrowing the top
RND 11–1411[21]
12[18]
13[12]
14[6]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreasest(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneStuff it firmly before the last round, close the hole with the tail through the front loops, and pull it snug so the point sits neat. Now the speckles: split a strand to two plies and work French knots across the wide half, chestnut first and soft pink dropped into the gaps.
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Seven notes on the speckled bird egg
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01An original Crochet Genie design.
02Worked in a continuous spiral in plain single crochet from the first round to the last. The fabric comes out smooth and even — there is no ribbing, no openwork and no gaps anywhere in it, and the egg reads as an egg through its shape alone.
03The egg shape comes from six straight rounds at 24 instead of the four a ball would take, and from a top that narrows over four rounds while the base stays blunt. Take out one straight round for a rounder egg, add one for a longer one.
04The speckles are French knots embroidered onto the finished shell after stuffing, not crocheted in and not sewn-on pieces. Work them once the egg is closed so you can see where they land.
05For the speckles, split a strand down to two plies and scatter twenty to thirty knots over the widest half of the egg, thinning them out towards the narrow end the way a real clutch is marked. Chestnut first, then a dozen soft pink knots dropped into the gaps.
06Cream makes a good alternative shell colour if you would rather a quail's egg than a songbird's — the chestnut and pink speckles read just as well on it.
07Stuff firmly in the last two rounds. An egg that gives under a thumb has lost its shape, and the top rounds are the hardest to reach once they close.
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