A few weeks back, I was walking past a flee market store (there are a lot of them here in Vienna) and I saw a really cute Easter crochet chick egg cosy. I wanted to buy it but the store was closed, and when I came back a week later it was already sold. So I decided I make one myself. I browsed the net for some patterns but none of them looked quite like the one I saw in the store. So I decided to design a pattern myself :)

You can either download the pattern as PDF or just look at it here on my blog. Happy crocheting :)

EASTER CROCHET CHICK EGG COSY FREE CROCHET PATTERN PDF

Materials

• 3.5 mm (US: E) crochet hook
• Yarn weight: Worsted weight yarn (I used King Cotton from Gründl)
• Yarn colors: Green, Yellow, Pink, Dark red
• Black beads for eyes
• Red felt for beak
• Yarn needle

Spring up your home by upcycling

It's the beginning of March and all I see around are willow catkins. Flower shops are full of them and even grocery stores have put buckets full of them near the check out counters. Usually they sell a bundle of six thick birches that are about one meter long and full of catkins for 3€ (4$). Since I wanted only few short thin birches, I cut them off from the willow in the inner courtyard of our building, Then I just took an old olive glass jar and a colored straw ribbon with a flower wire  and our new spring home decoration was done :)

Materials

• four thin willow birches 
• old glass jar (thin and high)
• straw ribbon with flower wire (when you get a bouquet and it's time to dry it up or throw it away, don't forget to scavenge all the good parts like ribbons and flower wire)