addiExpress instructions
addiExpress crank chicken
The chickens are laughing! Quickly cranked decoration with the addiExpress Professional knitting machine. Ideal for utilising leftovers
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What you need:
- Wool for body ca. 50g with a yardage of 100m/109yd per 50g
- Scraps of wool for details in red and yellow
- addiExpress Kingsize Professional
- addi crochet hook 4 mm (US 6)
- Stuffing material
- Shiny beads, 2 mm diameter as eyes
- Wool needle
- Scissors
Abbreviations:
- single stitch (sc)
- chain (ch)
- double crochet (dc)
- slip stitch (sl st)
How it works
addiExpress crank chicken
Instructions for one chicken.
Body:
- Knit with the addiExpress 1 square 2-ply in straight knitting mode over 40 rows (addiExpress over all needles, addiExpress Kingsize with stopper limited to 19 needles).
- Then fasten off the tube.
- Sew the squares together across the corner to form a triangle using a stitch and stuff with the wadding.
- To give the body the typical chicken shape, sew a tight stitch once in the centre of the back across the body to the foot section.
Details:
- For the red comb at the head, crochet 3 double crochets in the same place, repeat twice at 1 cm intervals.
- Crochet 11 ch for the red wattle and fasten to the ring, then crochet 1 row of sc on the ch. Sew the threads and shape everything.
Details:
- For the red comb at the head, crochet 3 double crochets in the same place, repeat twice at 1 cm intervals.
- Crochet 11 ch for the red wattle and fasten to the ring, then crochet 1 row of sc on the ch. Sew the threads and shape everything.
Foot:
- Place a thread ring for the foot and crochet 8 sc, finish the round with 1 sl st.
- 2nd round: crochet 3 sc in each stitch.
- 3rd round: * 2 sc, crochet sc in the same stitch. * from * to *.
- 4th round: * Crochet 3 sc, sc in the same stitch. * from * to * repeat.
- 5th round: * 4 sc, crochet sc in the same stitch. * from * to *.
- Sew the foot to the underside of the chicken's body. Consider the desired posture of the chicken (upright, pecking...).
Eyes and beak:
Eyes:
Embroider the eyes in yellow, then attach a black lustre bead to each eye.
Beak:
Work the beak from 6 ch, crochet a slip stitch in the 1st round.
Fasten once in half with a stitch to the head.
Design by Ute Krugmann.
Eyes and beak:
Eyes:
Embroider the eyes in yellow, then attach a black lustre bead to each eye.
Beak:
Work the beak from 6 ch, crochet a slip stitch in the 1st round.
Fasten once in half with a stitch to the head.
Design by Ute Krugmann.
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