Children, especially preschoolers, love to play with small toys. They can be carried in a backpack, placed in houses, placed under a pillow or pocket. You can knit such a small toy yourself. Cute bird community for the poultry yard - crocheted chicken and duckling.
Way knitting Crochet chicken and duckling are similar, there are only slight differences, so the descriptions of the models are similar.
For knitting, fairly thick yellow and red acrylic yarn and an N4 hook are used to ensure the tightest knitting. The main knitting technique is double crochet.
Chick.
Knitting with yellow yarn begins by making a circle: 3 ch, close into a ring, then 6 double crochets into the ring, then into each loop of the bottom row we knit 2 double crochets. In rows 3, 4, 5, add 1 double crochet to every second stitch of the bottom row. Then we stop adding loops and knit rows 6, 7, 8, 9, getting a cylindrical shape.
Then we decrease the loops through one in the 10th, 11th row, getting a chicken neck. Then we repeat the addition of loops in every second loop of the bottom row in the 12th, 13th and 14th rows.We fill the figure with light and voluminous filler, for example, padding polyester. Then we close the loops by knitting two loops of the bottom row together. We supplement the toy with another portion of filler. Close the last 4 loops with one loop, forming the crown.
For the tail, we cast on 4 loops at the bottom of the form, which we knit with double crochets in 3 rows. Then we connect the last loop of the 3rd row with the first, forming a corner.
Duckling.
We start knitting not with a circle, but with an oval. To do this, dial 5 vp. and knit in the round as described for the chicken model. In the 10th row, we begin to decrease the loops: we knit half the row, then turn the knitting, perform the opposite direction of the double crochet, decreasing one loop in the center. Turn the knitting again, knit the same half of the row, decreasing 2 loops in the center. Next, we continue knitting 2 rows of double crochet stitches in the round, forming the neck of the duck. Then evenly add 4 loops in the 13th row, 4 loops in the 14th row. Then we decrease the loops, just as described in the previous model. We perform the tail in the same way, but make it a little larger - 5 loops.
Wings. The wings are knitted with separate stitches: with yellow yarn we make a chain of 5 chain stitches. and we knit them in a circle in 3 rows, loops are added when turning the knitting 3 vp into the outermost loop of the row. You should get 4 wings.
Beaks. Change the yarn to red and knit the beaks. To do this, cast on 4 chain stitches for a chicken or 5 chain stitches for a duckling directly on the toy shape. For the chicken from the second row, we reduce the loops, getting a thinner beak. For the duckling we knit 3 rows without decreasing the loops, in the 4th row we decrease 2 loops and close the row.
For the chicken, also tie a small comb.We collect 7 chain stitches with red yarn on the top of the toy model. We knit the reverse row according to the pattern: *2 double crochets in each loop, 3 double crochets in one loop of the bottom row*.
Paws. For the chicken: ch 3, 6 single crochets in the circle, ch 5 for the finger, 4 double crochets in the opposite direction. Next in the circle, 5 double crochet stitches.
For the duckling: do everything described above, then tie the entire piece along the contour of a double crochet stitch in each loop.
We collect toys into a single whole. Sew on the wings with yellow yarn. For the paws we use red yarn. Next, we use small beads, which we sew or glue as eyes.
This is such a friendly bird couple.
