Let’s start making this crochet easter bucket pattern. it has step-by-step instructions to make a charming bucket, it’s perfect for easter decor, and you can customize the colors according to your preferences.
Materials needed to make this plushie are sport weight yarn in green, grey, and white shades, a 1.25mm crochet hook, a yarn needle, fiberfill for eggs, thin wire for the flower leg, and a bucket handle.
These instructions include how to make the bucket and its handle, eggs, snowdrop, and its leaf, stem, and also the pattern includes a photo tutorial for how to make each part included in the pattern.
Let’s get started!
Designer: Natascha Zayceva
Materials & Tools
- Sport weight / 4ply yarn Alize Bella (50g/180m)
- Gray No.21 (bucket), greeen No. 492 and white No. 55 (snowdrop), any colors for eggs
- 1.25 mm crochet hook
- Polyester filling
- Thin wire for the flower leg and bucket 20 – 22 cm
- Scissors, needles, markers, glur
Size: bucket height 5.5 cm
Abbreviations
Mr – magic ring
ch – chain
sc – single crochet
dc – double crochet
sl st – slip stitch
inc – increase
dec – decrease
BLO – back loops only
FLO – front loops only
Bucket
Bottom (First part)
Rnd 1: 6 sc in Mr (6)
Rnd 2: inc x 6 (12)
Rnd 3: inc x 12 (24)
Rnd 4: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
Rnd 5: (sc, inc, 3 sc) x 6 (36), sl st
Bottom (Second part)
Rnd 1-5: as for the first part, but without sl st
Rnd 6: 36 sc (36)
Side Part
Join both bottom parts. Place them with the wrong side out, a smaller circle on top.
Rnd 7: through both loops of the upper part and front loops of the bottom part: 36 sc (36), sl st, ch 1, turn
Next, start all the rounds with ch 1 and end with sl st in the first chain of the round.
Rnd 8-9: 36 sc (36)
Rnd 10: (11 sc, inc) x 3 (39)
Rnd 11-13: 39 sc (39)
Rnd 14: (12 sc, inc) x 3 (42)
Rnd 15-17: 42 sc (42)
Rnd 18: (13 sc, inc) x 3 (45)
Rnd 19: FLO 45 sc (45)
Rnd 20: 45 sc (though front loops of the previous round and BLO of round 18) (45)
Rnd 21: FLO 45 sc (45)
Rnd 22: 45 sc (through front loops of the previous round and BLO of round 20) (45)
Rnd 23: (14 sc, inc) x 3 (48)
Rnd 24-26: 48 sc (48)
Rnd 27: 12 sl st, ch 3, skip 1 stitch, 23 sl st, ch 3, skip 1 stitch, 11 sl st, sl st in the first chain
Cut the yarn, fasten off, weave in the yarn ends.
Handle
For the handle, cut off a thin wire 10-12 cm long and wrap it with thread. Glue the thread at the ends. Pass the handle thouth the loops on the sides of the bucket and bend the ends.
Eggs
Rnd 1: 6 sc in Mr (6)
Rnd 2: inc x 6 (12)
Rnd 3: (sc, inc) x 6 (18)
Rnd 4-6: 18 sc (18)
Rnd 7: (4 sc, dec) x 3 (15)
Rnd 8: 15 sc (15)
Rnd 9: (3 sc, dec) x 3 (12)
Rnd 10: (2 sc, dec) x 3 (9)
Rnd 11: (sc, dec) x 3 (6)
Fasten off, tighten the hole, weave in the yarn ends. Crochet any number of multi-colored eggs. The bucket holds 6 pieces.
Snowdrop
Flower
Begin crocheting in green color. Leave a tail about 40 cm long at the beginning and then bring it in front.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in Mr (6)
Rnd 2: (sc, inc) x 3 (9)
Rnd 3: 9 sc (9)
Rnd 4: (sc, dec) x 3 (6), sl st
Cut the yarn, fasten off, weave in the yarn ends. Turn, attach the white yarn to any inner loop.
Rnd 5 (inner petals): FLO (sc, crochet 2sc, 3 sc into the base of the last stitch, 2 sc down on the other side, skip 1 stitch) x 3, sl st
Crochet (make) 2 sc, not on the chain:
- insert the hook into the side of the stitch, which we crocheted from the loop of the green part
- stretch the loop
- in the same loop pull another loop (there are still 2 loops on the hook)
- crochet both loops on the hook – one sc is ready
- now insert the hook not into the side part, but into the base of the last ready
Continue crochet through back loops. The inner petals should be between the outer ones (first crochet 2 sc according to the scheme, and then the petal, you can start with 1 sc or without sc at all, but then crochet 2 sc between the petals).
Rnd 5 (outer petals): BLO (2 sc, [ch 10, from the second chain on the hook: sl st, sc, 5 dc, 2 sc]) x 3, sl st
Cut the yarn, fasten off, weave in the yarn ends.
Paint the edges of the inner petals in green.
Leaf
ch 8, from the second chain on the hook: sl st, sc, 3 dc, sc
Cut the yarn, tie the ends with a knot.
Stem
Take a wire 10 cm long, attach it to the base of the green part. Wrap the wire densely and tightly with the remaining green thread. After 1 cm, put the leaf inside out and wrap the ends to the wire. At the very end, fix the end of the thread with glue.
