Make a super cute crochet chicken in a smaller size easily and effortlessly, following the easier step-by-step pattern we're presenting. Go with the step-by-step process and use your experience to make the most fun and admirable chicken amigurumi yourself in no time. The given pattern is used to showcase a traditional hen. However, in my personal opinion, one can craft as many possibilities with the chicken amigurumi as the colors in a rainbow.
Crochet Chicken Pattern
As you select your yarn, remember that your chicken's color choice can be as simple or as vibrant as you wish, setting the stage for your chicken's unique personality to shine through. When crafting the beak, the shades of orange and red you choose will breathe life into your creation, giving it a character all its own. Whether you're a seasoned crocheter or picking up the hook for the first time, this project is a perfect way to hone your skills and add a touch of handmade charm to your home or gift it to someone special.
Materials
- 1. Yarn: Vita Brilliant (45% wool, 55% acrylic, 380 m/100 g, fingering weight) in white, beige and a little orange.
- 2. Hook size: 1.5 mm.
- 3. Eyes size 3 mm, glue.
- 4. Polyester fiberfill, sewing needle, scissors, pins.
You may use any other type of yarn, just remember to use a crochet hook suitable for your yarn weight. The size of the chicken is about 5 cm (1.96").
Abbreviations
- MR magic (amigurumi) ring ch - chain
- SC - single crochet slst – slip stitch dc - double crochet
- inc - increase
- dec - decrease
Head-body
Start with beige.
- 1-6 sc in MR 2-6 inc (12) 3-(1 sc, inc)*6 (18)
- 4-5 18 sc (2 rounds)
- 6-(5 sc, inc)*3 (21)
- 7-8-21 sc (2 rounds)
- 9-(6 sc, inc)*3 (24)
Chicken
Change to white. Do not cut off the white thread, leave it in front of work.
- 10 - work in back loops only 24 sc 11 - make 7 ch, work along the chain starting from the second stitch from the hook: inc, 5 sc, then continue working 24 sc around, next 6 sc along the second side of the chain (37).
Place the marker; it will be the beginning of the new round.
- 12-2 inc, 16 sc, 2 inc, 16 sc, inc (42)
- 13 - 1 sc, 3 dc with one top in one stitch (like a puff stitch), 40 sc (42)
- Return to the beige thread.
Work with beige thread in front loops of 9th round: (4 ch, skip one stitch, 1 sc in the next stitch) - repeat like this to the end of the round, finish with a slst. Cut off the thread weave in.
Now, continue working on the white part of the chicken.
- 14-17-42 sc (4 rounds) Decreases in rounds 18-20 are exactly in front and back of the chicken.
- 18-1 sc, dec, 19 sc, dec, 18 sc (40)
- 19 - (dec, 18 sc)*2 (38)
- 20 - (dec, 17 sc)*2 (36)
- 21 - (4 sc, dec)*6 (30)
- 22 - (3 sc, dec)*6
- (24) – stuff. 23-12 dec (12) - stuff to the end. 24-6 dec
Tighten the stitches with a needle. Cut off the thread weave in.
Chicken Wings (make 2) (white)
- 1 - 6 sc in MR
- 2-6 inc (12)
- 3-5-12 sc (3 rounds)
- 6-(4 sc, dec)*2 (10)
- 7-(3 sc, dec)*2 (8)
- 8-(2 sc, dec)*2 (6)
Beak (orange)
- 1 - 4 sc in MR
- 2-(1 sc, inc)*2 (8)
Cut off the thread and leave a threaded end for sewing. Do not stuff. Tighten the stitches with a needle. Cut off the thread and leave a thread end for sewing. Bring the thread to the middle of the inside part of the wing.
Assembly
- 1 - glue the eyes between the 4th and 5th rounds; there are 7 sc between the eyes.
- 2 - sew on the beak on rounds 5 and 6 in the middle between the eyes.
- 3 - comb: moving from the back to the beak. Insert the hook under a stitch of the second round (closer to the back), attach orange thread, then make 3 ch, work 1 sc under the next stitch (it's in the first round already), again make 3 ch, then 1 sc under the next stitch of the first round, 2 ch and 1 sc under a stitch of the second round.
- Cut off and secure the thread, weave in. 6 Sew on the wings on the sides of the body. I have them approximately in rounds 7-13, counting from the bottom.
Free crochet pattern by @scandistyle_dolls
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