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Spring Vibes
Knit Easter Eggs and Decorations
Nothing creates a better holiday mood than hand-knitted decorations on spring branches. Here's everything you need to get started!
Spring and Easter constitute a fantastic season for crafts. After a long winter, we long for bright, vivid colors. To knit easter decorations is also one of the smartest things you can do with your stash, as these tiny projects rarely require more than a few grams of each color!
How to knit easter eggs
The undeniably most popular project for the season is to knit easter eggs. They are lightning fast to make, perfect small gifts to put inside a larger candy egg, and look stunning hung in a window or on some birch branches in a vase.
How are they made?
A knitted egg actually strongly resembles knitting a top-down hat, except you both start and end with just a handful of stitches. You cast on, for instance, 8 stitches on DPNs, and increase evenly on alternating rounds until the egg reaches its widest diameter. Then you knit a few straight rounds before decreasing to shape the top.
Remember the stuffing! It's easy to get so caught up in the miniature knitting that you pull the top stitches together before remembering the filling! Push the polyfill inside when you have about a third of the decreases left to do.
Bust your stash
Easter decorations are the ultimate stash-busting projects! Use up the yellow leftovers from your summer tee, or tiny skeins of pink and spring green. It doesn't matter much if the yarns are slightly different weights when knitting colorwork, as long as you make sure to knit tightly enough so the white stuffing doesn't show through the fabric. A great trick is to use needles half a size smaller than the yarn recommends.
More than just eggs!
While eggs are classic, there are thousands of patterns for other cute springtime knits:
- Knitted chicks and hens: Cozy figures to stand on your breakfast table alongside the real eggs!
- Yellow socks: Is there anything more classic for a mountain cabin trip than a pair of thick, yellow and red patterned rag socks?
- Rabbits and bunnies: Knitting plush toys is slightly more time-consuming, but a knitted bunny often becomes a beloved heirloom passed down to the next generation.
What do you fill knitted easter eggs with?
You can assemble them over styrofoam or plastic craft eggs to keep their shape perfect, or simply stuff them with polyfill or yarn scraps.
What yarn is best for easter decorations?
Smooth cotton yarn or thin wool (like merino) are perfect choices. Cotton yields clear colors and a firm structure that holds its shape nicely.