Hatching Chick Pattern
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This pattern is written for a worsted weight chick. Modifications for the blanket yarn version will be in red text. While I leave a long tail for sewing on the finished parts of the worsted weight yarn version (as indicated in the pattern), I leave a shorter tail for the blanket yarn version. I weave the end in and use a similarly colored strand of worsted weight yarn to sew parts on (since blanket yarn tends to be more delicate/messy).
There are a couple of optional materials listed. First, a nylon sock with polybeads can help weigh down the egg, potentially allowing the finished product to stand on its own. I did this for the worsted weight version. The second optional material is Tacky glue. I glued the tips of the cracked egg onto the body (on both versions). Alternatively, you could leave them unattached or sew them down with ivory yarn.
Materials:
2.5 mm hook/4 mm hook
Worsted weight yarn in yellow, orange, and ivory/super bulky yarn (weight 6) in yellow, orange, and ivory
2 7 mm safety eyes/2 10 mm safety eyes
Polyester fiber stuffing
Finishing/tapestry needle (to sew parts together, embroider nose, and weave in ends)
Embroidery thread (or yarn) in pink, white, and black
Optional: Tacky glue, nylon sock with polybeads.
Skills:
Basic understanding of how to complete amigurumi and follow patterns
Working in a spiral
Sewing amigurumi parts together
Basic embroidery skills
Finishing off (f.o.) and weaving/tucking in ends
Chain (ch)
Single crochet (sc)
Increase (inc.)*
Invisible decrease (dec.)**
Regular decrease***
Double Crochet (dc)
Crocheting in back loops only (BLO)
Crocheting in front loops only (FLO)
Slip stitch (sl st)
*An increase is 2 scs in 1 stitch.
** An invisible decrease is completed by following these instructions: 1. Identify the next two stitches you wish to combine into one. 2. Insert your hook into the front loop of the first stitch. 3. Insert your hook into the front loop of the second stitch. You should have 3 loops on your hook. 4. Yarn over and pull through 2 loops. 5. Yarn over and pull through the remaining 2 loops.
*** A regular decrease is completed by following these instructions: 1. Insert your hook beneath the next stitch. 2. Yarn over and pull up a loop. 3. Insert your hook beneath the next stitch. 4. Yarn over and pull up a loop. You should have 3 loops on your hook. 5. Yarn over and pull through all 3 hooks.
This pattern is written in US crochet terms.
Beak
Use orange yarn. Do not stuff
I like to make the beak first and then sew it onto the head while I’m still working on the head. This allows me to get proper eye placement.
R 1: ch 2, starting from the 2nd ch from the hook complete 4 sc (4)
R 2: (sc, inc.) x 2 (6) *
To even out the beak, you can complete a slip stitch at the end and/or complete the following technique: take your finishing yarn in your tapestry needle, skip the next stitch (that comes right after the stitch you completed before finishing off), and insert your needle through the following stitch. Pull through. Then insert your yarn back through the back loop only of the stitch you just skipped and pull through.
Set beak aside.
Egg
Use ivory yarn.
R 1: ch 2, complete 8 sc in the 2nd ch from the hook (8)
R 2: inc. x 8 (16)
R 3: (sc, inc.) x 8 (24)
R 4: (2 sc, inc.) x 8 (32)
R 5-6: 32 sc (32)
R 7: (7 sc, inc.) x 4 (36)
R 8: (8 sc, inc.) x 4 (40)
R 9: (9 sc, inc.) x 4 (44)
R 10-12 (3 rounds): 44 sc (44)
R 13: FLO 44 sc (44)
R 14: (sl st in the next st, ch 1, dc in the next st, ch 1, sl st in each of the next 2 stitches) x 11
F.o. and leave a long tail for sewing. (You can later weave your tail in order to attach the chick to the left over back loops of round 12. Alternatively, you can weave in your ends and sew with a new piece of yarn.)
Head and Body
Use yellow yarn.
R 1: Ch 4. Starting from the 2nd ch from the hook complete: 2 sc, inc. On the other side of the chain complete: 2 sc, inc. (8)
R 2: inc. x 8 (16)
R 3: (sc, inc.) x 8 (24)
R 4: (2 sc, inc.) x 8 (32)
R 5: 32 sc (32)
R 6: (3 sc, inc.) x 8 (40)
R 7-9 (3 rounds): 40 sc (40)
R 10: inc. x 4, 12 sc, inc. x 4, 20 sc (48)
R 11-13 (3 rounds): 48 sc (48)
R 14: dec. x 4, 12 sc, dec. x 4, 20 sc (40)
R 15: (3 sc, dec.) x 8 (32)
The yarn tail (where you are ending and beginning each round) marks the side of the head. (The tail naturally falls to the left when the front side of the face faces you.)
Insert eyes between rounds 12 and 13, about 6 stitches apart. If desired, embroider white outer edges on each eye. Sew the beak onto round 12 in between the eyes. If desired, embroider blush using pink yarn in between rounds 13-14, about 2-3 stitches wide. Embroider eyebrows on round 10.
Stuff the head. Add more stuffing after completing round 16 if necessary.
R 16: (2 sc, dec.) x 8 (24)
R 17: (sc, inc.) x 12 (36)
R 18: (8 sc, inc.) x 4 (40)
R 19: (9 sc, inc.) x 4 (44)
R 20-22 (3 rounds): 44 sc (44)
R 23: BLO (9 sc, dec) x 4 *
*Feel free to complete regular decreases here if it’s too hard to complete invisible decreases on the back loops only. This part will not show on the finished product.
F.o. and weave in the end tail.
Stuff the chicken and the egg partially (enough so that you can still sew without stuffing getting caught in the stitches as you go). (Alternatively, you can place your bag of polybeads in the egg.) Sew the leftover front loops of 22 on the chick’s body onto the leftover back loops of round 12 of the egg. Once the egg and chick are sewed together about half-way, add more stuffing in both the egg and chick’s body. As necessary, continue to stuff as you go.
1. Cut 3 strands of yellow yarn. Each one should be a few inches long.
2. Insert hook beneath the starting chain of the head. Folded in half, place the three strands on the tip of your hook.
3. Pull the strands through the starting chain of the head, forming a loop.
4. Pull the ends of the strands through the loop to form a knot. Tighten the knot.
5. Use your fingers to separate each of the 6 strands into smaller strands.
6. Trim as necessary.
Wing (make 2)
Use yellow yarn.
R 1: ch 2, complete 6 sc in the 2nd ch from the hook (6)
R 2: inc. x 6 (12)
R 3: 12 sc (12)
R 4: ch 1, fold the wing in half and crochet it closed with 6 sc (6)
R 5: ch 1, turn (All in one stitch complete: sl st, ch 1, hdc, ch 1, sl st) x 6
F.o. and either weave in the end or leave a long tail for sewing.
Sew wings along the sides (slightly to the front) of the body at desired angle. If you are planning on attaching the tips of the egg to the body, make sure the bottom of each wing will lie in a “crack” or space between the tips (so that it won’t run into the tips when you get to this step.)
If desired, glue or sew the egg tips onto the chick’s body. (If you use glue, I recommend securing tips with sewing pins as the glue dries.)
The end!
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