Knit a Chicken for Your Eggs

Knitting can’t solve the age-old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg, but now, thanks to Yarnspirations, you can knit a little chicken to keep your egg cozy.

The chicken toy and egg cozy pattern from Yarnspirations uses Red Heart Super Saver yarn, or you can use scraps of whatever medium/worsted weight yarn you have on hand. Theirs are in rather traditional chicken colors but you can make yours whatever colors you like, of course.

You have the option of stuffing your chicken and sewing up the bottom to make it a chicken toy, or leaving it open so that it can be an egg cozy (for a real egg or a candy egg, or maybe even a chocolate orange, though you might need to use bigger yarn to make that fit properly).

Use a little bit of black yarn to make the eyes or leave eyes off if this is going to be a toy that little kids will play with. For older kids or just for whimsy you can add safety eyes, sew on buttons or whatever you like.

Head to Yarnspirations to grab this free chicken knitting pattern.

And while we’re on the subject of knitting chickens, I feel like this is still a thing that a lot of people are doing. The Emotional Support Chicken (which is part of this collection of amigurumi knitting patterns worked in worsted weight yarn) is still going strong.

A couple of years ago I also did a full post of chicken knitting patterns, which also includes that pattern. Here you’ll find egg-shaped chickens, a chicken with a nest and more fun patterns so you can knit yourself a whole flock of fibery chickens.

These are fun gifts for people who like chickens or just as a silly little thing to make and share, because we all need silly little things, right?

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use.

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make.

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!).

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn.

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart.

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern.

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.

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