Free Crochet Chocolate Egg Basket Pattern

I made these baskets for little Easter presents a few years ago and I have been making more this year and I have shared the pattern below.

I fill my little baskets with mini chocolate eggs that come in the little nets, I got mine from Tesco but I know a lot of the supermarkets do them and also I have bought them from Poundland in the past too. The Mini Baskets also fit a cadbury cream egg size egg in to but only the one!
You can re-use these each year – obviously just add more chocolate eggs as I can’t imagine they would last more that 5 minutes, let alone a whole year!

The baskets are very quick to make and make a great evening project in front of the TV or I like to wip a couple up whilst waiting in the car on the school run.

To make your Mini crochet Easter baskets you will need some DK yarn, 4mm hook, darning needle, some 3mm ribbon in a colour of your choice and of course some mini chocolate eggs. I have used Stylecraft special DK in mocha for most of my baskets but I have also made some pastel coloured ones too.

Crochet Chocolate Egg Basket Pattern
DK yarn
4mm hook
Darning needle
3mm Ribbon
Scissors
Chocolate Eggs!!

Abbreviations – UK terms
st – stitch
ch – Chain
slst – slip stitch
tr – Treble crochet
dc – Double crochet

Note: The chain 2 counts as st throughout

ch4, join in first ch to make a ring

Round 1 – ch2, 11tr into centre of ring, slst into top of ch2 (12st)

Round 2 – ch2, 1tr into same st as ch (bottom of ch 2 you have just done), 2tr in each st from previous round, join into top of ch2 (24st)

Round 3 – ch2, 1tr into back loop only of each st, join into top of ch2 (24st)

Round 4 – ch2, 1tr in each st around, join into top of ch2 (24st)

Round 5 – slst in each stitch around (24slst)

ch18 slst into tr st on opposite side of the basket, (I counted 12 st back from last slst in round 5), slst in next stitch along, then dc in each of the ch18 back across, slst into basket and tie off.