Easter Egg Holders

Well, my brother and his boys have flown home this afternoon ...

 

I hate that abandoned, empty feeling a house has after your guests have gone.  We dropped them off at the airport leaving them on the loading zone because my family all knows I hate long drawn-out goodbyes ... so we don't go into the airport with them anymore.  It's drop, hop back into the truck, and zoom off to more furious waving ... quick like a bandaid! ... but no less painful.

 

I'll miss all the boys' little paper monster creations that have been scattered around the house for the past two weeks ...

 

 

So when we returned home, I thought I'd console myself with a little blogging since I've not been able to do much of it while they were all here. 

 

Over the years, my kids decorated a lot of Easter eggs.  I used to just set them out in a special bowl at Easter time to show them off, but I got tired of that (and I also got tired of the huge number of eggs we had saved!). 

 

This egg decorating:  Drizzle rubber cement glue on the egg; allow it to dry; dip egg in dye; allow dye to dry; peel off rubber cement glue

 

So last year I created a simple little egg holder from cotton yarn to hold the eggs ... and I got rid of quite a few eggs at the same time.  The brown eggs below were dyed with onion skins wrapped around them and boiled in water.

 

 

I always poke holes in the eggs we're going to decorate and blow out the liquid egg.  And I always get a severe headache from it.  I've never seen one of the handy egg 'pumps'(?) that removes the liquid egg without giving yourself a brain aneurism at the same time, but if I do I will buy it.  Until then, I always have the Advil handy ;)

 

 

Anyway, back to the egg holders.  If you're interested in making your own, these are the instructions:

 

Knitted Egg Holders

 

Using 4 ply cotton yarn and a set of four 3mm DPNs,

cast on 28 stitches,

divide on three needles as 9, 9 and 10 stitches,

knit 10 rows,

bind off loosely.

 

easy peasy

 

The cotton  and the fact that these are small keeps the holders rather stiff, so there's no need for stuffing inside.

 

 

They don't take much yarn either, and you can whip off a few in a short amount of time.  It's the egg decorating that's so time consuming!

 

 

I hope you're all having a great weekend ... our sunshine has returned and I can see some iris just poking through the ground from my kitchen window ... not long now before SPRING truly arrives (fingers crossed!!).

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Wendy