I tried the pattern for the Easter eggs in this book:
And I’ve got a lot to share about it! Firstly, I made 2 of them with more leftover Stylecraft Special DK and some 6in. 3.25mm DPNs that I had lying around (they’re not KnitPicks, but they were OK). So I wanted to start out with an egg that consists of only 2 colors, not being too confident in my abilities. Here’s the picture in the book of it:
It’s got hens going around it! How cute! Not being too comfortable with DPNs, I was nervous with this ungainly looking beginning:
Even at this point, I was thinking the whole thing might just be a recipe for disaster:
It started to look pretty good, though, and even the back looked pretty decent:
And here’s the finished egg:
I think it turned out great! A little bigger than I expected, but super-cute. I had a problem, though, with the increases at the beginning. Here’s how the book says to do increases:
Have you ever seen that before? It turned out to be really difficult for me, and very frustrating, so I started using a crochet hook to get into that stitch and pull a loop through. For my second egg, therefore, I decided to use M1L and M1R increases instead, and it looked almost exactly the same. Here’s the book’s example of the second egg I made:
And here’s how that one went:
I like it a lot, although perhaps I should have picked more contrasting colors than the pink and blue/green. Here are the two eggs together:
The second one is a little smaller, and I’m not sure if it’s because I’m getting tighter with my DPN skills or if I pulled the yarns too tight when changing colors. In any case, I love both of them!
I also apologize for the darker pictures — I took the pictures of the eggs at 3AM, right when I finished them, so it was very dark in the house.
That’s all for today, except I want to say thanks to everyone who responded to my last post about rape culture. It sparked some conversations on and off the Internet, and that’s really what I wanted, so thanks! And thanks for stopping by again — I’ll be posting again soon!
