Decorated Plastic Easter Eggs in a Crochet Basket

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Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - decorated eggs in crochet basket

Decorate several plastic eggs with a variety of finishes, such as twine, a crochet yarn chain, gem stones, or small buttons. Then crochet this cute little basket to display them in. This is a page about decorated plastic Easter eggs in a crochet basket.

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Put All Your Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket

By Sandi/Poor But Proud [940 Posts, 2,968 Comments]

April 4, 2017

I got a bag of plastic eggs the other day and today I covered 7 of them with unique covers and crocheted a basket. This is a fun thing to have sitting in your home, perhaps as a centerpiece!

Total Time: 5-6 hours

Yield: 7 eggs, 1 basket

Supplies:

7 plastic eggs in 2 sizes ($.29)
1/4 cup buttons ($.15)
1/4 cup gemstones ($.25)
1 square foot fabric
3-4 yd baker's twine ($.10)
1 8 inch circle of glitzy fabric
3-4 yd crochet chain
1 hot glue gun
6 ft glitzy thread
4 yd beaded strand
2 oz bulky yarn of your choice
1/2 Package Easter egg grass ($.29)
scissors
pliers
darning needle/thread
crochet hook, size N

Steps:

Plan each egg separately. Nothing is worse than getting hot glue on something and then not being ready.

For the green one, I cut fabric in a pretty green color and hot glued it around and around length ways.

Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - green fabric wrapped and glued to egg

For the crocheted chain, I crocheted a chain and began gluing at the top and winding/gluing as I went around the egg.

Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - make a crochet chain

Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - glue and begin wrapping

Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - continue wrapping and glue as you go

For the twine, I pretty much did the same thing

Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - glue and wrap twine

Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - twine wrapped egg

For the buttons, I just glued on what would fit, using large, medium, and smaller ones.

Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - egg with varying sized buttons glued on

For the glitzy fabric, I made a circle, threaded some thread around the top, and hot glued the egg bottom to the circle center. Then I drew up the thread, and wrapped it around and around and glued it. I then got some glitzy thread and folded it in half till I had about 1'. Then I used it for a tie and tied it twice, trimming the loops.

Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - cut a circle of glitzy fabric

Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - wrap and glue to egg

Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - tie with thread

For the beaded one, I began at the center bottom and wound the beads around as I glued. I didn't realize till I got half way through the eggs that I didn't have enough of the same color, so I just finished with what I had. Remember the planning part? This is why.

Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - glue beaded chain the same way

And finally for the gemstone one, I had fancy shower curtain rings and have been prying off the gems for a lot of cool crafts. This was no exception. Because they weren't very small, there are a lot of gaps where you can see the white egg color through the gems. If you painted it silver that would help.

Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - removing gems from shower curtain ring

Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - glueing gems to egg

To make your basket, follow this pattern and you can't go wrong. Chain 2, make 10 half-doubles in the first chain for 11. Join and chain 1, make 2 in each for 22. Join and chain 1, making a half-double in the first stitch and 2 in the next around for 33. Join and chain 1, making a half-double in the first stitch and the next, and 2 in the next around for 44. Join and chain 1 and make a half-double in the first stitch and the next 3, then 2 in the next around for 55. On the 6th row, make a single in each of the 55 around, join and chain 1, repeating this row till you have 4 rows. Then, chain 3 and make a slip stitch in every other stitch and break off working in your tails. Add your grass and your eggs and you have a basket of eggs like no one else! N-JOY!!

Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - crocheting the base of the basket

Unique Eggs in One Homemade Basket - making side walls of basket

Unique Eggs in On e Homemade Basket - blue crochet basket

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