MC Blue Ombre for the Body

CC Sweet Roll Banana

This may be is my favorite ESC, so far, out of 26. I was so surprised about the random use of the Banana yarn, and how it all worked out.

Video Tutorial

Used the 3 needle bind-off to join the two tail sections. Knit each tail section with the same number of rows. (41) This gives you the correct stitch count when you pick up the stitches for the chicken body.

Did the Banana Yarn striping in Stockinette.

Added two extra rows to the neck.

Used Swish Honey for the beak with Size 6 DPNs.

For the beak after there were 5 stitches I purled back and then K 1, slip one, K2 tog, PSSO, K 1; pull through the 3 remaining stitches and then did the seaming.

Double Wattle (knit the wattle and before ending it did a few plain rows and then knit the pattern in reverse.)

Block all the pieces after knitting and before any sewing.

Created an inner “beanbag” with nylon sock and Poly-Fil Poly-Pellets. Enclose this with lots of regular Poly-fil Fiber Fill stuffing.

One 2 pound (32 oz) bag of the Poly-fil stuffing seems to be enough for 3 chickens with the large bean bag of Poly-Pellets also taking up lots of room!

Helpful Seaming Video

Source for Safety Eyes

Decided to set a goal of 24 Emotional Support Chickens in 2024. (24in24) This is ESC #26