Chicken
of this kind are very pleasant in keeping. They are easy company, totally clean
and friendly with children. They are staying at their place except they are
following the children in their games.
Whereas
the birth of those chicken is a little tricky and I hope this tutorial is
clear. Try it
out!
Material:
- 2
squares 15x15cm for the body
- 1 square
10x10cm for the tail
- 1 square
6x6cm for the spout
- 2
quadrants with 7cm radius for the head (optional)
- Zig-zag-ribbon
as ruff (optional)
- 2 black
buttons for the eyes
- Felt
for crown and jowl
- 2 about
20cm long ribbons fort he legs
- 2 perls for the feets (optional)
- Batting (not on the foto)
Preparation head (optional):
You can make those
chicken also without extra marked head zone, but I like them better with.
Therefor you iron the quadrants with Flisofix on one corner of each body square and cover the edge with the zig-zag-litz.
If
you want it more easy you can cut out the quadrants with a zig-zag scissor that
gives a likewise effect.
Preparation tail, spout, crown and jowl
From felt you cut out a crown and a jowl. Remember
that about 0,7cm of it will be later in the seam allowance and cut accordingly
bigger.
For the tail fold the 10x10 square in half and
then both closed corners to the opposite middle. Best if you iron the folds.
For the spout you are doing the same as for the
tail and in the end you fold it in half. The long (open) side of the triangle is
the downside.
Head:
On
the seam allowance of the head, fix the prepared pieces spout, crown and jowl. The
jowl should only slightly go over the ruff and stick a bit into the downside
of the spout. If you put the jowl only under the spout, there will be a big distance between the two visible afterwards because of the seam allowance and that’s not so
pretty.
Now
you put the two body squares over each other - right sides facing each other
and the head zones are together.
Sewing the body:
Close the following seams:
1. The back seam of the chicken, that
means the seam where is also the crown.
2. The front of the chicken, that means
the seam where is the spout and jowl.
3. The belly of the chicken, that means
the seam that is opposite of the back. Leave in the back half a
turning opening of 3-4cm.
Have a look if spout and crown are
correctly fixed. It happens easily to close in the crown into the front
seam.
I
propose to actually close first the back seam and do this from the top of the head
to the back. The two other seams can be closed together also starting at the
point of the head.
I used a red thread so the seams are better visible on the foto.
Chest and legs:
Now you place the front seam over the belly
seam and fix it with a needle. Rectangular to those seams you mark a line that
is about 6cm long that means 3cm on each side of the seams.
Put the leg ribbons from the inside
with one end into the marked line so that they are about rectangular to that
line. Fix them with needles.
Sew along the marked line.
Verify if the ribbons are correctly placed and
fixed with the seam.
Later it should look like this:
Tail:
To not catch the leg ribbons with the seam of
the tail, I propose to pull them out of the turning opening.
Place the back seam over the belly seam to get
the pyramid form.
Add the tail by fixing it centric and between
the two layers.
Close the tail seam.
Later it should look like this:
Finish:
Turn the chicken, stuff it, close the turning opening and sew on the
eyes!
Fix the pearls to the end
of the legs and your chicken is ready!
The
most fun you will have with a whole chicken run:
