Knitting Machine Chicken

 I have been obsessed with making chickens on the knitting machine! Making a chicken on the knitting machine works up pretty quick!

I want to show you how I made my chicken, keep in mind the there are no specifics for making this chicken.

I have a 40 pin Sentro knitting machine, and that is what I used.

I made a tube of about 4-6 inches in the color I want chicken to look like on the outside and about the same amount in the color that is going on the inside of the chicken. It need to be doubled up to the stuffing doesn't show.

 Pull and gather up the end that is going to be the bottom of the chicken.

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Tuck the side of the tube that is is going to the inside of the chicken plus maybe about an 1/2 inch or so or more so you can't see the inside yarn.

Add some stuffing inside the chicken

We are going to start at the tail end of the chicken, I carefully brought up the yarn tail up from the bottom and sewed about an inch. At the one inch point,  secure it well because we are going to gather the middle part.

Loosely sew up the middle section leaving about an inch away from the end, which will be the head. Gently pull the yarn to gather up the middle, Then secure well.

So now we run the yarn around the opening of the head.

At this point you could add the safety eyes if using then and sew on any other features. The beak is just yarn wrapped around many times,

Add more stuffing to fill out the head.

Pull the tail to close the opening and secure in place

I just wrapped yarn a couple times around my finger to add a feathery look on top

An then I sewed it in place.

There you have your chicken! Again, these are no specific instructions. It is just guidelines.

I did make a video on how to make the chicken, so check it out:

 

 

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