Let’s crochet this charming Easter Basket by combining the yarn and colorful beads. The process involves crocheting the basket base and sides while strategically adding beads for a decorative effect. You can choose pastel shades for a traditional Easter look or vibrant hues for a more modern twist. This basket makes a perfect gift, serving as a unique keepsake for a loved one or festive centerpiece filled with Easter treats.
This project offers a fun way to enhance your crocheting skills while celebrating the joy of the season. You will learn or practice crocheting with beads and popcorn stitches to make your Beaded Easter Basket.
VIDEO TUTORIAL OF BEADED EASTER BASKET
WRITTEN PATTERN OF BEADED EASTER BASKET
Materials:
- The yarn used in the tutorial is one ball of Bernat Softee Cotton (weight light 3)
- Crochet hooks 3.75 mm and 2 mm
- 120 x 10mm beads with large holes
- Round plastic canvas 5.75 inches
- Stitch marker
Finished size:
My Beaded Easter Basket measures about 7 inches in diameter and 4.5 inches tall.
Abbreviations:
beg = beginning
PC = popcorn stitch
ch = chain
dc = double crochet
sc = single crochet
sl st = slip stitch
yo = yarn over
Special stitches:
- Beg Popcorn Stitch = ch 3, dc 4 in indicated stitch, take hook out of the working loop, insert it through the 3rd beg ch and then through the working loop, pull the working loop through the ch.
- Popcorn stitch = dc 5 in indicated stitch, take hook out of the working loop, insert it through the 1st dc and then through the working loop, pull the working loop through the 1st dc.
- Bead + sc = put a bead on hook, skip next sc, insert hook in next sc, yo and pull it through the sc and bead, yo and pull through 2 loops on hook.
Pattern notes:
- Basket base and edge are worked in continuous rounds.
- My plastic canvas has 122 holes on its last round, if you have a different number of holes, you'll need to calculate how many holes to skip with 96 sc on the crochet circle.
BASE
- Make a magic ring:
- Round 1 = sc 8 in the ring.
- Round 2 = sc 2 in each sc (16 sc), place the stitch marker in 1st sc.
- Round 3 = *sc in next sc, sc 2 in next sc, repeat from* (24 sc), move the stitch marker in 1st sc.
- Round 4 = *sc in next 2 sc, sc 2 in next sc, repeat from* (32 sc).
- Round 5 = *sc in next 3 sc, sc 2 in next sc, repeat from* (40 sc).
- Round 6 = *sc in next 4 sc, sc 2 in next sc, repeat from* (48 sc).
- Round 7 = *sc in next 5 sc, sc 2 in next sc, repeat from* (56 sc).
- Round 8 = *sc in next 6 sc, sc 2 in next sc, repeat from* (64 sc).
- Round 9 = *sc in next 7 sc, sc 2 in next sc, repeat from* (72 sc).
- Round 10 = *sc in next 8 sc, sc 2 in next sc, repeat from* (88 sc).
- Round 11 = *sc in next 9 sc, sc 2 in next sc, repeat from* (88 sc).
- Round 12 = *sc in next 10 sc, sc 2 in next sc, repeat from* (96 sc).
- Round 13 = hold the crochet circle facing the right side and place the plastic canvas behind it, holding both together and inserting 2mm hook through sc and a hole on canvas, *sc 4, skip next hole on canvas (but don’t skip sc on crochet circle), repeat from* 22 times, **sc 2, skip next hole on canvas (don’t skip sc on crochet circle), repeat from** 4 times (96 sc).
- Round 14 = change back to 3.75mm hook, sc in each sc, sl st in 1st sc.
BODY
- Round 1 = beg PC, ch, skip next sc, bead + sc in next sc, ch, skip next sc, *PC in next sc, ch, skip next sc, bead + sc in next sc, ch, skip next sc, repeat from*, sl st in top of 1st PC.
- Round 2 = ch, sc in same st, ch, PC in next sc, ch, *sc in top of next PC, ch, PC in next sc, ch, repeat from*, sl st in 1st sc.
- Round 3 = beg PC, ch, bead + sc in top of next PC, ch, *PC in next sc, ch, bead + sc in top of next PC, ch, repeat from*, sl st in top of 1st PC.
- Round 4 = ch, sc in same st, ch, PC in next sc, ch, *sc in top of next PC, ch, PC in next sc, ch, repeat from*, sl st in 1st sc.
- Rounds 5-8 = repeat rounds 3-4.
- Round 9 = repeat round 3.
EDGE AND HANDLES
- Round 1 = ch, sc in same st, sc in each next 2 st, skip next st, *sc in each next 3 st, skip next st, repeat from* (72 sc).
- Rounds 2-3 = sc in each sc, place the stitch marker in 1st sc.
- Round 4 = (ch 20, skip 15 sc, sc in each next 21 sc) twice.
- Round 5 = sc in each ch and in each sc.
- Rounds 6-8 = sc in each sc, finish with sl st in 1st sc, cut off yarn, fasten off.
- Weave in ends.
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Happy crocheting!
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