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Cute & easy Easter crochet ideas: Little Chicks & Mini Baskets

Looking for easy Easter crochet ideas? These adorable chicks and mini baskets are quick to make and perfect for gifts or decorations.

Are you looking for a cute and easy Easter decoration? Or a fun way to wrap a small gift?

Recently, I came across some adorable crochet patterns by Elke Eder that I just had to try: Sweet Little Chicks and Cute Little Baskets.

I found them as a bundle on Crazypatterns.net, but they’re also available separately there or on Ravelry.

Both patterns are quick and easy to make.
The instructions are very detailed and easy to follow. They include plenty of helpful photos covering stitches, assembly, and decorative details.

Besides basic stitches, both patterns use a special stitch called “Doppelmasche”, which is explained in a clear and easy-to-follow way.

Overall, the patterns are easy to follow and very beginner-friendly. That said, having a bit of experience with amigurumi is definitely helpful for making the little chicks.

The patterns are available in English (US terms) and German. You’ll find the pattern links at the end of this post.

A sweet little chick and matching basket

Sweet Little Chicks

The Sweet Little Chicks are about 5 cm tall and have simple, slightly triangular bodies. Their bright colours make them look really cheerful.

The pattern includes various suggestions for colour placement – from solid colours to two-tone or striped designs – as well as ideas for embroidery. Of course, there are no limits to your imagination, so you can easily get creative with your own variations.

So far, I’ve made three of the designs from the pattern. I especially like the ones with embroidered details. As I’m not very good at embroidery, I’ve only tried it on one of them so far.

The tiny combs and beaks are a bit fiddly to make and do require some patience – especially when it comes to attaching the beaks. But it’s absolutely worth the effort, as those little details really bring the chicks to life.

For the eyes, I decided to use small googly eyes instead of crocheting them, which gives them a slightly playful look that I really like.

Cute Little Baskets

The tiny baskets from the second pattern are perfect for wrapping small gifts and also make lovely Easter table decorations.

This pattern also comes with several ideas for decorations, such as small flowers, butterflies, and embroidery details.

The baskets are made in two parts: an inner and an outer layer. Everything is explained and illustrated very clearly. While I was working on mine, I was briefly worried that it might not stand up properly – but that turned out to be completely unfounded. The finished basket is nice and sturdy and stands upright without any problems.

So far, I’ve only made one basket, but I’ll definitely be making more!

My yarn and colours

For my projects, I used various brands of cotton yarn from my stash:

Schachenmayr Catania
Schoeller + Stahl Limone
Woll Butt Camilla (a German Brand)

All are 100% Cotton with 125 m / 50 g

I used the hook sizes recommended in the pattern (2.5 mm and 3.0 mm). However, since I noticed that my Doppelmasche-stitches turned out a bit looser than my single crochet stitches, I switched to a 2.25 mm hook for that part.

Pattern links

If you’d like to try them yourself, you can find the patterns here:

Sweet Little Chicks on Ravelry

Cute Baskets for tealight and other little things on Ravelry

Bundle Sweet Little Chicks and Cute Little Baskets on Crazypatterns.net

All in all, I really enjoyed working with these patterns. They’re quick, versatile, and perfect for adding a small handmade touch to Easter – whether as decoration or for little gifts. I’m really happy with how my chicks and basket turned out, and I’ll definitely be making a few more soon.

Have a lovely time 🐣

Happy Easter

Happy Easter to all of you!

My brand new Easter decoration

As if I had nothing else to do I had to make a little decoration shortly before easter. I just couldn‘t resist when I saw this lovely animation of the Easter Dudes that Dana (misssBerlin) posted on Instagram. At nearly the same time I came across the easter eggs by Tatiana Saienko from Planet Piu and I thought both would go very well together. And voila!

The Easter Dudes

I had the chance to test the Easter Dudes back in 2019. I was – and still am – fascinated by the beautiful embroidery that Dana used to decorate the caps. I wish I could do that! Unfortunately, I never learned that and I have a really hard time doing it. So I am afraid, instead of pretty flowering branches, my embroidery will always be a bit more graphic and rustic.

The test for the Easter Dudes was about one Dude and one cap only.

I‘ve crocheted quite a few Dudes by now. And they all differ a bit. Although I – felt – always make them the same, they are always different. Smaller, bigger, thicker or thinner with different arms and / or noses. And there is Fred.

Fred is my first Easter Dude and the only one (I hardly dare to say) that has a name. I made him as a part of the test and somehow he turned out very small. And with his cap on he seems tiny and shy to me. That‘s why I gave him a name. He only wears his Easter Cap and doesn‘t have to model for other caps.

However it was fun to dig out the pattern again and to crochet another Easter Cap. This time I tried a little embroidery and I think it worked out quite well.

I used Camilla yarn from Woll Butt for the cap. That’s a German brand and I tried it for the first time. It‘s a cotton sport weight and has exactly the same yardage like Scheepjes Catona or Schachenmayr Catania. It‘s soft and easy to work with. For the embroidery I used Scheepjes Catona in the color Lavender. I just split the thread for it.

I always find it surprising how fast some things can be crocheted if you are not currently testing the pattern. Maybe I should do a few more? Or do one every year, together with

The Easter Eggs

I discovered this pattern by chance on Instagram. It is a free pattern that you will also get on Ravelry. More precisely, there are two instructions, one for a small egg and one for a bigger one. Both are easy and quick to make and you can let your creativity run free.

I started with the small yellow egg. It is the same yarn and color like the cap for the Easter Dude. I wasn‘t sure if it was good to stuff the egg first and then to embroider it, but it worked out very well.

The other eggs are also made with cotton yarn but different brands.

The big one is crocheted in one color as well and later embroidered. The blue yarn is from Wenco, also a German brand.

But at this point it was definitely enough embroidery for me! So I decided to crochet the other two small eggs in two colors.

The lavender egg has contrasting stripes in cream. (Lavender is Catona, Cream is Catania). The color changes are made in the rounds 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13. For the other one the main color is Cream and the green parts are done in rounds 5, 8-11 and 14.

I absolutely love the result!