My Emotional Support Comfort Chicken!

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It seems like everyone in the world has gone emotional support chicken crazy and I decided to join them!

I might be a bit of a crazy chicken lady. LOL

My chickens are different than the trending Emotional Support Chicken knitting pattern in a couple ways. My chickens are all knitted in pieces that are sewn together and all the knitting is done on a circular knitting machine. The Video Tutorial is Here!

If you haven’t seen the Sentro 48 needle or the Addi Kingsize Express 46 needle machines before here’s what they look like!

The Sentro is marketed as a toy and the Addi as a Tool but they do the same thing! The build quality is obvious but if you just want to try it out the Sentro is worth the under $75 you will spend. The Addi is made in Germany with a great build quality and is solid and smooth working. If you know you will stick with it I’d go ahead and start with the Addi!

Body Pieces are all knit on a Circular Knitting Machine in panels. Details are simple crochet pieces sewn on at the end.

Tools:

48 Pin Sentro Circular Knitting Machine

46 Pin Addi Express King Size Knitting Machine:

Crochet hook 4 or 4.5

Darning Needle

Clippy Stitch Markers or Quilter’s Clips

Scissors

Materials:

Worsted Weight Yarn (great Scrap Buster project) Chicken

Red Worsted Weight for the Details

Yellow Worsted Weight yarn for the Beak

Waste Yarn

Poly Fill stuffing

2 Black Safety Eyes

Scraps of felt for backing Safety Eyes

Head/ Neck/ Chest

Long Tail Cast on 9 Needles

Knit 2 rows

Increase (inc) 2 needles across 2 rows *(Row 4 Immediately Increase needle on the right knit back across Row 5 increase 1 needle on the left work back across)* (11 needles)

Inc row 6/7 (13 Needles)

Inc row 8/9 (15)

Inc row 10/11 (17)

Inc row 12/13 (19)

Inc row 14/15 (21)

Inc row 16/17 (23)

Inc row 18/19 (25)

Inc row 20/21 (27)

Inc row 22/23 (29)

Inc row 24/25 (31)

Inc row 26/27 (33)

Inc row 28/29 (35)

inc row 30/31 (37)

Inc row 32/33 (39)

Inc row 34/35 (41)

Knit 5 rows.

Waste Yarn Cast Off

Single Crochet Bind off Edge

Remove Waste Yarn

Body/ Back/ Tail

Waste Yarn Cast On 21 Needles

End Waste yarn on Far Left needle add 1 single row different color waste yarn Zip Strip

Main Yarn

Knit 5 rows

Increase (inc) 2 needles across 2 rows *(Row 6 Immediately Increase needle on the right knit back across Row 7 increase 1 needle on the left work back across)* (23 needles)

Inc row 8/9 (25 Needles)

Inc row 10/11 (27)

Inc row 12/13 (29)

Inc row 14/15 (31)

Inc row 16/17 (33)

Inc row 18/19 (35)

Inc row 20/21 (37)

Inc row 22/23 (41)

Knit 10 rows

Waste Yarn Cast off

Single Crochet Bind off

Remove Waste Yarn

Gusset (neck/chest/under tail)

Long Tail Cast On 7 needles

Knit 5 rows

Increase (inc) 2 needles across 2 rows *(Row 6 Immediately Increase needle on the right knit back across Row 7 increase 1 needle on the left work back across)* (9 needles)

Knit 2 rows 8/9

Inc row 10/11 (11)

Knit 2 row 12/13

Inc row 14/15 (13)

Knit row 16/17

Inc row 18/19 (15)

Knit row 20/21

Inc row 22/23 (17)

Knit row 24/25

Inc row 26/27 (19)

Knit row 28/29

Inc row 30/31 (21)

Knit row 32/33

Inc row 34/35 (23)

Knit row 36-70

Long Tail Cast off

Crochet the Details

4.5mm crochet hook

Beak: (yellow or orange or gold yarn)

Chain 10 turn

Sc in each chain space (9 stitches) turn

Insert hook in first stitch wrap yarn over pull through = 2 loops on hook, insert hook in next stitch wrap over pull through all 3 loops on hook – 1 decrease completed.

5 Sc across to last 2 stitches – work decrease turn

Work decrease

3 Sc across to 2 last stitches – work decrease turn

Work decrease

1 sc, Work decrease in last 2 stitches. Turn

Work decrease

1 SC

Tie off

With darning needle stitch 2 sides of beak together

To make a triangle.

Beak done

Waddle: Red Yarn

Ch 2

Work all stitches in same chain loop *(Slip stitch in 2nd chain from hook, 1 single crochet, 1 half double crochet, 1 double crochet, 2 treble crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 1/2 double crochet, 1 single crochet, 1 slip stitch)

Ch 3

Slip stitch in 2nd chain from hook, 1 single crochet, 1 half double crochet, 1 double crochet, 2 treble crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 1/2 double crochet, 1 single crochet, 1 slip stitch)

Tie off leave long tail to sew this to the chicken’s chin.

Crown: Red Yarn

Chain 9

Slip stitch 2nd chain from hook, 1/2 double crochet,(4 times total), across to end and turn

Slip, 1/2 double (4 total)

Tie off cut leave long tail to sew on to top of head.

Sew the pieces together – follow the video for how to

Attach the Safety Eyes– make sure to use a strip of felt inside the head to keep the eyes from pulling out.

Sew on the Beak

Stuff with PolyFill

How to keep the chicken upright– Give the chicken a bit of weight. Fill a small muslin bag with poly pellets (4-5 ounces). Sew it closed securely.

Finish her up by sewing the back end closed and squishing and shaping her to your liking.

My current flock! Left to right Olivia, Queenie and Rosie

If you enjoyed this project leave me a comment here and on the video tutorial if you watched it!. Go ahead and share this post with your friends and if you make one of these cuties and post to Instagram please tag me @stephaniebcreativity

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