Celebrate spring with these classic crochet Easter eggs — a simple, timeless project that adds handmade charm to any holiday decor.
Perfect for baskets, garlands, or gifting, this beginner-friendly free pattern works up quickly and can be made in any color you love. Let’s start stitching your perfect Easter eggs.
Skill level
Intermediate
Materials
- Puli (100% Cotton, 125m (137yds)/50g (1.76oz), Sport Weight) Yarn
- Crochet hook: 2.00 mm
- Filling
- Scissors
- Tapestry needle
Abbreviations
- St(s) – stitch(es)
- Mr – magic ring
- Sc – single crochet
- Hdc – half double crochet
- Dc – double crochet
- Inc – increase (2 st in next st)
- Dec – decrease (2 st worked off together)
- (nr) – indicates the total number of stitches in the current row/round
Size of the finished item
The Easter egg is 5 cm (2 inches) tall, if you use similar weight yarn. In case you use a thicker yarn, your egg will be bigger, if you use thiner yarn, your egg will be smaller.
Pattern Instructions
For this Easter egg you can use any color combination and yarn you like to match any other Easter decoration you have. As you need small amounts from each yarn, this is also a perfect way to use up your yarn scarps from your stash.
I started with red yarn.
Round 1: 12 dc in mr (12)
Change color to white
Round 2: sc*12 (12)
Change color to red
Round 3: Crochet double crochets in the back loop only (inc)*12 (24)
Round 4: sc*24 (24) for the 3rd, 7th, 11th, 15th, 19th, 23rd sc only change color to white
Round 5: (sc in the 1st st, hdc and dc in the next s, dc in the next st, hdc and sc in the next st)*6 (36)
Change color to white
Round 6: sc*36 (36)
Change color to red
Round 7: Crochet in the back loop only (dc, hdc, sc, sc, hdc, dc)*6 (36)
Round 8: sc*36 (36) for the 1st, 7th, 13th, 19th, 25th, 31st sc only change color to white
Round 9: (dc, hdc, sc, sc, hdc, dc)*6 (36)
Change color to white
Round 10: sc*36 (36)
Change color to red
Round 11: Crochet in the back loop only (sc, hdc, dc, dc, hdc, sc)*6 (36)
Start stuffing the egg and keep on stuffing while crocheting.
Round 12: sc*36 (36) for the 3rd, 9th, 15th, 21st, 27th, 32nd sc only change color to white
Round 13: (dc, dec)*12 (24)
Change color to white
Round 14: sc*24 (24)
Change color to red
Round 15: Crochet in the back loop only (dec)*12 (12)
Round 16: sc*12 (12)
Round 17: dec*6 (6)
Finish off.
Congratulations! Your Easter egg is now finished.
More Free Crochet Patterns
Here are a few more crochet patterns you may be interested in.
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