Make your own cute Easter chickens with this free amigurumi pattern. The pattern is suitable for beginners and for more experienced crocheters with little time. At only 2.5 inches (6 cm) tall they will make great decorations as well as lovely little gifts to add to your Easter basket.
Designer: @bondo_toys
You will need:
- Gazzal Baby Cotton yarn (60% cotton, 40% acrylic, 50 g/ 165 m): white color #3410, red #3439, orange #3418, mustard #3447
- 2.0 mm crochet hook
- Black sewing thread for embroidering eyes
- Sewing needle and scissors
- Sewing pins
- One plastic circle (the size is equal to the diameter of the bottom). You can cut it out of a plastic lid
- Fiberfill
Free Easter chicken crochet pattern
Abbreviations:
R – row
ch – chain
sl st – slip stitch
sc – single crochet
inc – increase (2 sc in one stitch)
dec – decrease (2 sc together)
[…] – number of stitches you should have at the end of the row
(…) – repeat whatever is between the brackets the given number of times
Head and body (one piece)
With main color yarn:
R 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
R 2: (inc) repeat 6 times [12]
R 3: (1 sc, inc) repeat 6 times [18]
R 4: (2 sc, inc) repeat 6 times [24]
R 5: (3 sc, inc) repeat 6 times [30]
R 6: 1 sc, inc, (4 sc, inc) repeat 5 times, 3 sc [36]
R 7: 35 sc in BLO, then crochet the tail: 1 sc in the front loop, 4 ch, from the 2nd ch from the hook: 4 sl st (the last sl st in the front loop of a crochet stitch of R 36); 3 ch, from the 2nd ch from the hook: 3 sl st (the last sl st in the front loop of a crochet stitch of R 36).
R 8: (5 sc, inc) repeat 6 times [42]
R 9-14: 42 sc (6 rows)
Put and glue a plastic circle on the bottom.
R 15: 12 sc, 10 ch, sl st in the 1st ch (10th ch from the hook), 8 ch, sl st in the 1st ch (8th ch from the hook), 18 sc, 8 ch, sl st in the 1st ch (8th ch from the hook), 10 ch, sl st in the 1st ch (10th ch from the hook), 12 sc [42]
R 16-17: 42 sc (2 rows)
R 18: (5 sc, dec) repeat 6 times [36]
R 19-20: 36 sc (2 rows)
R 21: (4 sc, dec) repeat 6 times [30]
R 22: 30 sc
R 23: (3 sc, dec) repeat 6 times [24]
R 24: 24 sc
R 25: (2 sc, dec) repeat 6 times [18]
Stuff with fiberfill.
R 26: (1 sc, dec) repeat 6 times [12]
Fasten off.
Crest
With red color yarn:
Part #1
R 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
R 2: inc, 5 sc [7]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.
Part #2
R 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
R 2: (inc, 2 sc) repeat 2 times [8]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.
Beak
With orange color yarn:
R 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
R 2: (inc, 2 sc) repeat 2 times [8]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.
Feet (make 2)
With mustard color yarn:
R 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
R 2: 2 ch, sl st in the 2nd ch from the hook, sl st in the foundation of the chain, (2 ch, sl st in the 2nd ch from the hook, sl st in the next st) repeat 2 times
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.
Assembly
Sew the feet to the body as shown in the picture, working with needle and thread around the foot and fixing each toe.
Sew the crest on the head: the part #1 is forward, the part #2 is behind.
Sew the beak to the face, positioning it as shown in the picture.
Mark the places for eyes with sewing pins. Embroider the eyes with black thread (each eye is 3 sc long).
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