🐔 This adorable mini chicken amigurumi is perfect for beginners and experienced crocheters alike! The pattern creates a small, pocket-sized chicken that works up quickly and makes a great gift or cute addition to your amigurumi collection. With simple stitches and clear instructions, you’ll have your own fluffy friend in no time.
Key Takeaways
- 🧶 Quick project that’s perfect for using up yarn scraps
- 🔍 Beginner-friendly pattern with basic stitches
- 🎁 Adorable gift idea for chicken lovers
- 📏 Pocket-sized finished product (approximately 3 inches tall)
Materials&Tools
- Yarn
- Polyester Fiberfill
- 2.25mm Hook(What I used in this pattern)
- Yarn Needle
- Glue (To connect the parts, you can also sew with yarn)
Abbreviation
- ch – chain
- sc – single crochet
- inc – increase (2 single crochets in one stitch)
- dec – decrease (merge 2 single crochets into 1)
- hdc – half double crochet
- dc – double crochet
- sl st – slip stitch
- magic ring – adjustable ring to start crocheting in the round
- BLO – back loop only
- FLO – front loop only
How to Read Pattern?
- R5: ch, [1 sc, sc inc] x 6, sl st
In Round 5, start with a chain stitch, then repeat the pattern “1 single crochet, single scrochet increase” 6 times. End with a slip stitch.
- (sc+sc+sc)
Parentheses ( ) indicate that all stitches within them are worked into the same stitch. So ‘(sc+sc+sc)’ means working 3 single crochet stitches all into the same stitch.
Pattern Info
Body(Yellow)
- Start with magic ring
- R1: 6 sc
- R2: 6 inc
- R3: [sc, inc] x 6
- R4-5: 18 sc
- R6: 4 sc, 4 inc, dec, 4 inc, 4 sc
- R7: 25 sc
- R8: 4 sc, 4 dec, sc, 4 dec, 4 sc
- R9: [sc, dec] x 5, dec
- R10: 5 dec, sc
Leave a long yarn, stuff firmly.
Crown(Red)
- 3 ch, 2 sc into 2nd chain from the hook, 3 ch, 2 sc into 2nd chain from the hook, sl st
Cheek * 2(Yellow)
- 2 ch, sc into 2nd chain from the hook
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