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Egging Around
I wanted to make a basket of Easter Eggs this year, so I bought a few dozen plastic eggs and got to knitting. I had so much fun choosing the accent colors! I hope my Easter basket inspires you to make your own nest full of colorful stranded eggs. They are knit top-down in the round, with fewer than 25 rounds of an easily memorized stranded knitting design.
The egg cozy is designed to fit a 3.5” (9 cm) tall plastic egg. You’ll slip the egg inside the knitting and then knit the last 3 rounds with the egg inside.
Techniques Used:
Turkish cast on
Small diameter knitting in the round
Stranded knitting
Knit front and back increases
Knit 2 together decreases
Materials Needed:
Yarn:
30 yards each of MC and CC, fingering weight yarn
Needles:
US 1 / 2.25 mm DPNs or 32” / 81 cm circular needle or size needed to achieve gauge
Notions and additional materials:
Removable stitch marker and additional markers to mark repeats, if desired
Tapestry needle
Plastic egg, 3.5” / 9 cm tall
Finished Measurements:
Fits a 3.5” / 9 cm tall plastic egg with negative ease.
Gauge: 18 sts and 23 rounds over 2”/ 5 cm in stranded knitting in the round.
This pattern has been professionally tech edited and test knit. If you find a mistake, need pattern support or are interested in private knitting lessons please write to info@theknittingtutor.net.
- First published: March 2021
- Page created: March 13, 2021
- Last updated: October 18, 2023 …
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