These egg babies are so cute and practical. They're easy to make, and great for
chucking at people's heads.
They were inspired by the egg I carried around as a class project many, many years ago.
You know, the class that teaches you how having a baby is a ginormous responsibility by
making you carry around an inanimate object that most likely got broken within a day by
irresponsible rough housing in a fast food restaurant, when it clearly should have
been left locked safely in the car, as any real responsible parent knows.
I loved my egg a lot.
Pattern:
I used worsted weight yarn and a G hook. They ended up about the size of a regular chicken
egg. You can go crazy and make a parakeet egg or an ostrich egg by using smaller or larger
hooks and different weight yarn or thread.
Ch 4, join to make a circle
Ch 1 (counts as sc), 8 sc in circle (9 sc) At this point I just worked in rounds without
joining, but used a marker that I kept moving up.
2 sc in each sc (18 sc)
On the next round, increase 4 sc evenly around (22 sc)
Work 8 rounds even
Next round, decrease 4 sc evenly (18 sc)
SC in next 4, dec 1 around (15 sc)
Right around now you can start to stuff them with fiberfill. Keep stuffing as you close up
the hole. They're nicer when they're very firmly stuffed.
SC in next 3, dec 1 around (12 sc)
Dec every stitch around for a total of 6 stitches, then cut the yarn and using the yarn
tail, sew the hole closed.
Embroider cute (or hideous) faces on felt or scrap fabric and sew them to the Egg
Baby. My dog liked the one I left on the floor so I let her keep it.
Here's a little copyright information:
All patterns offered on sockmonkeyrescue.org are copyrighted to Alicia Infanti forever.
Feel free to make them and share them with your friends. Selling these free patterns is
prohibited, not to mention wrong. Since they're free.
If you think you can make any money selling the items you make from my patterns, you may
do so as long as it's small scale (less than 100 a year) and not anywhere on the internet.
Your hometown shops and craft shows is fine, and I really wish you luck! If we could all
make money from our crafts, it would be a happy, happy world.