Chicken & Egg by Fiona Goble

Chicken & Egg

Knitting
April 2017
DK (11 wpi) ?
20 stitches and 28 rows = 4 inches
in Stockinette (stocking)
US 3 - 3.25 mm
26 - 28 yards (24 - 26 m)
One size
English
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Knit a chicken and a life-size egg to pop it into!

Finished chick is the size of an actual large hen’s egg

You will need:

  • Oddments of DK/light worsted/8ply - 10m/11yd yellow and 15m/16.5m white. Wool or wool/acrylic mixes work best.
  • Very small amounts of black and orange yarn or embroidery floss (or use small buttons or beads)
  • A couple of small handfuls of polyester toy filling
  • A needle to sew your work together and a large-eyed embroidery needle

Skills needed: basic knitting skills plus how to increase and decrease and some basic embroidery skills.

You can sell items you make from this pattern in limited quanitities but distribution of the pattern itself in any way is prohibited.