MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT COMFORT CHICKENS!

By Stephanie Bergeron April 2, 2024

Mini Pocket Sized Emotional Comfort Chickens Circular Knitting Project – Sweet and oh so huggable!

By Stephanie Bergeron (StephanieB Creativity YouTube)

Printable Pattern PDF download is available to all members of my Patreon– join us for all the rewards!

Please Watch the Pocket Size Emotional Comfort Chicken Video on StephanieB Creativity to see how the increases are worked and the pieces are sewn together.

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

Tools:

22 needle Sentro Circular Knitting Machine or 22 Needle Addi Express Professional

Crochet hook 4mm

Darning Needle

Clippy Stitch Markers or Quilter’s Clips

Scissors

Materials:

Worsted Weight (Aran) Yarn (great Scrap Buster project) Chicken

Red Worsted (Aran) Weight for Comb and waddle

Yellow Worsted (Aran) Weight yarn for the Beak

Waste Yarn

Poly Fill stuffing

Black and White Embroidery Floss

Head/ Neck/ Chest

Long Tail Cast on 5 Needles

Reset Counter to Zero

Knit 2 rows

Increase at the end of each row working back and forth until you have 18 Needles being used

Inc 2 rows 3/4 (7 needles)

Inc 2 rows 5/6 (9)

Inc 2 rows 7/8 (11)

Inc 2 rows 9/10 (13)

Inc 2 rows 11/12 (15)

Inc 2 rows 13/14 (17)

Inc 1 row 15 (18)

Knit 4 rows.

Waste Yarn Cast Off

Single Crochet Bind off Edge

Remove Waste Yarn

(Optional do a Shell border across the single crochet edge. Slip Stich (SS) in first SC space, Then Shell in next the space (1 SC, 1 HDC, 1 SC = Shell), SS in next space, Shell etc to other end. Finish row with a SS.

Body/ Back/ Tail

Waste Yarn Cast On 11 Needles

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

Reset Counter to Zero

Add Main Color Yarn

Knit 4 rows

Increase at the end of each row working back and forth until you have 18 Needles being used

Inc 2 rows 5/6 (7 needles)

Inc 2 rows 6/7 (9)

Inc 2 rows 8/9 (11)

Inc 2 rows 10/11 (13)

Inc 2 rows 12/13 (15)

Inc 2 rows 14/15 (17)

Inc 1 row 16 (18)

Knit 6 rows.

Waste Yarn Cast off

Single Crochet Bind off Both Cast on and Cast off Edges

Remove Waste Yarn

(Optional do a Shell border across the 11 Stitch Edge -(Tail Feathers) single crochet edge.

Slip Stich (SS) in first SC space, Then Shell in next the space (1 SC, 1 HDC, 1 SC = Shell), SS in next space, Shell etc to other end. Finish row with a SS.

Gusset (neck/chest/under tail)

Long Tail Cast On 5 needles

Knit 3 rows

Increase rows increase 1 needle at the end of each row

Inc rows 4/5 (7 needles)

Knit 2 rows 6/7

Inc rows 8/9 (9)

Knit 2 rows 10/11

Inc rows 12/13 (11)

Knit rows 14/15

Inc row 16/17 (13)

Knit to Row 32

Long Tail Cast off

Following the Video Stitch the 2 Back Pieces together

With a Running Back Stitch or however you like

Crochet the Details

4.5mm crochet hook

Beak: (yellow or orange or gold yarn)

Chain 8 turn

Sc in each chain space (7 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.

3 Sc across to last 2 stitches – work decrease turn

Work decrease

1 Sc across to 2 last stitches – work decrease turn

Work decrease, 1 SS

Tie off

With darning needle stitch 2 sides of beak together

To make a cone.

Beak done

Waddle: Red Yarn

Ch 2

Work all stitches in same chain loop *(SS in 2nd chain from hook, 1 SC, 1 half double crochet, 1 double crochet (DC), 1 HDC, 1 SC, 1 SS)

Ch 2 – (SS in 2nd chain from hook, 1 SC, 1 half double crochet, 1 double crochet (DC), 1 HDC, 1 SC, 1 SS) Tie off leave long tail to sew this to the chicken’s chin.

Comb: Red Yarn

Chain 7

Slip stitch 2nd chain from hook, 1 HDC next chain space, SS next Ch space across to end of ch.1

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

Sew the pieces together – follow the video for how to

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.

Attach Comb and Waddle

Embroider eyes

If you enjoyed this project leave me a comment.

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 @deliberatelycreative

And a fun on on the main channel Deliberately Creative doing a sweet little ZenDoodle Zentangle mini card

I hope you all are staying cozy and doing something creative!

I have more doodle cards coming and some fun things to share soon.

Cheers,
Stephanie

How to Knit the Cutest Baby Pop Over Sweater Vest on a Knitting Machine

Fun quick new baby sweater / jumper vest that is just too cute! Over on my new channel StephanieB Creativity on YouTube.

This project is really just 2 rectangles sewn on one side from the hem to the under arm and across the shoulder seam. The other side has buttons for the side and shoulde to make the super easy to put on and take off with out having to struggle with the baby’s head.

It also makes a great way for toddlers and preschoolers to practice with buttons by dressing their favorite toys!

I hope you’ll check it out!

#knittingmachinequeens #preschoolactivities

Jump Start Your Creativity! Using a Brush Pen to Color a Doodle

Just a quick short video posted to my  YouTube channel
I’m back to my doodles and having such a great time- doing this personal daily challenge really is jump starting my creativity! Try it out and let me know what you think!!

Happy week between the last two holidays of the year. I’m so excited that I actually finished editing this one. It is a fun and creative lesson with simple skills that everyone can do!

Are you looking forward to all the creative things you are going to do and share this coming new year? I sure am! I’m hoping to be more present and mindful in my art practice.

I know that more art and creativity will be shared here on my web site. There will be way more variety of projects being shared here than what I’m putting on my YouTube channel. Go ahead and subscribe!

Do you have any ideas or suggestions?

• Doodle patterns / zen doodles
• watercolor
• crochet
• knitting
• art journaling
• mixed media
• Book binding for crafters
• etc…

Yup I have a huge list of techniques and ideas I want to explore- do you have any idea of things I should look into? Leave me a comment and let me know!

Let’s Draw a Fast House Plant #shorts

I’m posting my new videos and #shorts here on my blog to see if they are something that folks want to see more of!

I need to share more here on my webpage so let’s get started with this cute and quick drawing lesson!

Do you have any suggestions for subjects you want to learn to draw? Leave a comment so I can start building my list for the next few months!

I just published a new fun and easy step by step beginner drawing and painting lesson. This beautiful Rose Lesson

If you have anything you want to learn to draw and paint leave me a comment with your suggestions! I appreciate you being here!

I have also been painting every day this month on a Livestream- this link is to the Have a Ball Playlist of all the videos!

Then I made 2 sets of downloadable Holiday Tags from the finished daily paintings!! All the designs are original art and they make me so happy!

I have Published a Coloring Book on Amazon and a Digital Download of that same book on my Teespring Shop! I told you all about those in my last post at the beginning of the month. But now I have added 2 sets of downloadable Gift Tags on my Teespring shop too! the links are below the thumbnails of each set! Every design is a hand-drawn original and each was painted with watercolor and gouache on daily live-streams on my Youtube Channel Deliberately Creative Here’s the Playlist with all the videos in one place!

The first set of 9 designs is fun and whimsical.

Oh my goodness, I think I like the 2nd set of Holiday Tags even better than the first. Maybe it is because I have been painting every day? My skills are growing each day-

I have surprised myself this month sticking with the daily painting and getting them put into packs of fun tags and ornaments is a bonus I didn’t even imagine at first.

I’ll be doing another month of daily painting for January- it is going to be a month of cozy, self care and a bit of whimsy for good measure! Lots of Cups, Mugs, Teapots and Coffee. 😊 I will be doing these as a fun drawing marathon on New Year’s Eve. I’ll be starting at Noon Pacific time and going until I finish drawing 31, 5×7” pieces ready to be painted one a day for the whole month!

The plan is to get them put together as a digital download on Teespring and a softcover coloring book on Amazon like I did for December. Is that something you would like to see? Do you have any ideas? Things you would like to see me try to draw and paint?

Leave a comment and let me know!

Sneak peek of the paintings going up during Christmas Week!

Basic tools are all you need! Paint, paper, brushes. You can do this!

4 easy steps!
check out the video

These reference photos were taken by Stephanie and Mark Bergeron- these are available for use as reference only. 2020 all rights are reserved Stephanie Bergeron