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You Can Make   Crochet Chick Basket

What You Need:

Yellow double knit wool

4mm crochet hook

Toy filling

Orange 3 or 4 ply wool

2.5 mm crochet hook

Black wool or felt or 2 stick-on eyes

Glue

Brown textured wool

Suitable size hook
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

  
Crochet Chick Basket
       
  How To Make
       
 

Idea: These are just the right size to take a cream egg or to use as an egg cosy!

Abbreviations
ch = chain
st = stitch
slst = slipstitch
dc = double crochet
tr = treble
tog = together

Head/body:

  1. Using yellow wool with 4mm hook and working in treble throughout.

  2. Make 3 ch and slst into 1st ch to form a ring.

  3. 1st round – 3ch (this will count as 1st tr) 7tr into ring. Slst to top of ch to complete round. (8st). DO NOT TURN.

  4. 2nd round – 3ch 1tr into base of ch, then work 2tr into each st to end, slst to complete round. (16 st).

  5. 3rd round – treble, slst to complete round.

  6. 4th round – treble 2 tog 8 times, slst to complete round. (8 st). This forms the neck.

  7. 5th round – 2tr into each st, slst to complete round. (16 st).

  8. 6th round – (2tr into next st, 1tr into next st) to end. Slst to complete round. (24 st).

  9. 7th and 8th rounds – treble, slst to complete round.

  10. 9th round – (1tr, treble 2tog) to end. (16 st).

  11. Fasten off and sew in end of wool.

Beak:

  1. Using orange wool with 2.5mm hook and working in dc throughout. Make 3 ch.

  2. 1st row – dc into 2nd and 3rd chain. (2st). Turn.

  3. 2nd row – 2dc in to 1st st and 1dc into next st (3st). Turn.

  4. Work three more rows on these 3 stitches.

  5. 6th row – dc 3 tog (1st). Fasten off, leaving a few inches of wool to use for sewing beak in place.

To make up:

  1. Roll a small piece of filling into a ball and push through the neck of the chick into the head.

  2. Thread long end of wool left on beak along edge to centre. Fold beak in half and attach to centre front of head OR sew felt beak in place.

  3. Eyes can then either be made by sewing a few stitches in black wool above the beak, or by using glue to attach felt or stick-on eyes in place.

Nest:

This can be made to any size, using any brown textured wool and a hook of suitable size.

  1. Make 5 ch and slst to 1st ch to make a ring.

  2. Using tr throughout and 3ch as first tr on each round – work 10tr into ring and slst to complete round.

  3. 2nd round – (2tr into next tr, 1tr) all round. Slst to top of 3ch to complete round.

  4. 3rd round – (2tr into next tr, 2tr), all round.  Slst to complete.

  5. 4th round – (2tr into next tr, 3tr), all round. Slst to complete. Continue in the same way until you reach the required size for nest, then work a few rounds in tr without increasing for sides of nest.

  6. Last round - work in tr and tr2tog a few times evenly round the nest (this brings the top in slightly and gives a better finish. Fasten off and sew in loose end.

 
 
 

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