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Chicken Keychain crochet pattern

  • Mathematically BalancedChecked by script: in all 71 rounds the increases and decreases add up to the stitch count.

by the pattern engineAnimals

Difficulty
2/3
Time
~2 h
Size
7.1 cm
Weirdness
1/5
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A4 PDF: materials, every round with a tick box, assembly and face

Free crochet chicken pattern: a Chicken Keychain amigurumi, about 7 cm tall in fingering yarn with a 2 mm hook. A tiny round white hen with a red comb and wattle, an orange beak, pink cheeks and happy closed eyes, with a grey ring on top for your keys. You need about 50 m of yarn: 30 m white, 5 m grey, 5 m red, 5 m orange and 5 m pink. Plan on roughly 2 hours. Clip it to a bag or a bunch of keys, or hang it on a tree as an ornament. The 3D model spins, so you can check every side before you follow the round-by-round pattern.

How to crochet the Chicken Keychain

Intermediate · 7 cm tall · about 2 h · fingering yarn · 2 mm hook

  1. Crochet the 14 pieces in rounds: Body, Big comb lobe, Small comb lobe ×2, Beak, Wattle, Wing ×2, Tail, Foot ×2, Cheek ×2, Key ring loop (71 rounds in all).
  2. Stuff and put it together in 11 steps; each one lights up where it goes on the 3D model.
  3. Add the face: safety eyes by round and stitch, or embroider them for a child under 3.

Every round with its stitch count is in the Pattern tab below, and in the free printable PDF.

What you'll need

Tick things off as you gather them.

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Gauge

1 sc ≈ 3 mm wide, 1 round ≈ 2.7 mm tall (10 cm ≈ 33 sc × 37 rounds); yarn about 1.4 mm thick. The gauge sets the size of the toy; crochet tightly so the stuffing does not show.

Worked in

Continuous spiral rounds. Don't join. Move a stitch marker up every round.

Parts

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0 of 57 rounds done

  23. Size before assembly: about 6.3 cm at the widest, 5.2 cm long; 28 rounds.
  24. → Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
  25. Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 6 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.

  5. Size before assembly: about 1 cm at the widest, 1.5 cm long; 6 rounds.
  6. → Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
  7. Press the piece flat to about 7 mm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 30 % --> Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 5 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.

  5. Of these: front — 1; back — 1. Size before assembly: about 1 cm at the widest, 1.2 cm long; 5 rounds.
  6. → Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
  7. Press the piece flat to about 7 mm thick (oval cross-section).<!-- press the piece flat by 30 % --> Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 5 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.

  5. Size before assembly: about 1 cm at the widest, 0.9 cm long; 4 rounds.
  6. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly just before sewing it on; a little less near the edge, then add a pinch when the seam is nearly done.

  5. Size before assembly: about 0.8 cm at the widest, 1.1 cm long; 4 rounds.
  6. → Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
  7. Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 6 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.

  6. Size before assembly: about 1.2 cm at the widest, 1.5 cm long; 6 rounds.
  7. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly only and press it flat to about 5 mm thick.<!-- flattened 60 % -->

  7. Size before assembly: about 1.7 cm at the widest, 1.6 cm long; 7 rounds.
  8. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly only and press it flat to about 5 mm thick.<!-- flattened 70 % -->

  5. Size before assembly: about 1.1 cm at the widest, 0.9 cm long; 4 rounds.
  6. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff lightly only and press it flat to about 6 mm thick.<!-- flattened 50 % -->

  3. A flat circle about 1.1 cm across; 2 rounds.
  4. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.

  3. Size before assembly: about 1.7 cm at the widest, 1.4 cm long; 5 rounds. Each piece is two circles (front and back): make 2 circles — 1 as below and 1 plain in grey (same rounds, no colour changes).
  4. Fasten off. Hold a front and a plain circle wrong sides together and sc around through both layers: 18 sc. Do not stuff. Leave a long tail (~30 cm) for sewing.

The whole face is embroidered. Order: the eyes (black satin), then the white glints over them, then the nose and mouth, blush last. Mark the centres with pins first and compare with the picture. Bring thread ends out where a sewn-on piece will cover them, or bury them in the stuffing.

  • Embroidery in black thread (on the body) (2, symmetric: the toy's left side is described, the right is its mirror image), straight stitches through: (between rounds 19 and 20, 2 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (in round 20, 3 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (between rounds 20 and 21, 3.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (in round 20, 4.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (between rounds 19 and 20, 5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ).

Body · R1–R5

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    Abbreviations

    MR
    magic ring
    sc
    single crochet
    inc
    2 sc in the same stitch
    dec
    single crochet two stitches together (invisible decrease recommended)
    BLO
    work the round in back loops only
    FLO
    work the round in front loops only
    ch
    chain
    sl st
    slip stitch
    st
    stitch
    R5
    round 5; R7–14 = rounds 7 to 14 are the same
    (…) ×6
    repeat 6 times
    (24)
    stitches in the round when it is done