The Hen
Design by Vendula Maderska
March 2013, Updated March 2016
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What do you need:
US terms
• fine/ sport/ 12 wpi yarn
CH - Chain
• hook 3 mm
SlSt - Slip stitch
• tapestry needle
SC - Single crochet
• common sewing thread and needle DC - Double crochet
• buttons average 8 mm Inc – increasing
• 1 button average 33 mm (2 stitches in one stitch)
• 2 pieces of black mushroom buttons average 6 mm Dec – decreasing
• toy filling (2 stitches together)
• ribbon 2.5 cm/1 inch, about 80 cm/31.5 inches length
• small piece of felt
• scissors
I used this yarn:
mixture of cotton and acrylic
Kacenka by Nitarna Ceska Trebova
Yarn weight: Sport 5 ply / (12 wpi)
Yardage: 164 yards (150 meters) per 50g ball
I used these colors: 2254 orange, little amount of 3454 pink,1164 yellow, 3374 red, 0010
white. You will need about 28 g totally.
Tip: Tip for alternative material. You could use e.g. Jeans by Yarnart, Softfun by
Scheepjeswool, Cotton Blend by Red heart and another of your favorite yarn with similar
gauge.
I used a hook 3 mm
Gauge of the pattern: 11 stitches and 11 rows = in square of 2 x 2 inches
Size of finished hen: the hen is approximately 4.8 inches/13 cm tall (measured with the
comb and without ribbon tail), approximately 2.7 inches/7 cm width, and about 6.7 inches/17
cm long – measured with the bill. Please remember, that the size of finished hen depends on
used material and your own style of crocheting.
Needed skills:
Instruction
Body
Beginning: use orange yarn, you will crochet in spiral circle rounds – it means that you will
NOT join the rounds at the end and you will not turn the work, just crochet continuously. You
will make CH 15
Round 1: insert a hook in second stitch from the hook and crochet: [1 SC in next 2 stitches,
inc] – repeat 4 times totally, 1 SC in next stitch, 3 SC in last stitch. The work will make a little
spiral, just shape it with your fingers and continue.
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You will crochet in circle direction. You will not turn the work to “wrong side”. You will crochet
into chains from beginning, but on the opposite side of the stitches: [1 SC in next 2 stitches,
inc] – repeat 4 times totally, 1 SC in next stitch (you will have 37 SC)
Round 2: [1 SC in next 3 stitches, inc] – repeat 9 times totally, 1 SC in next stitch (46 SC)
Shape your work to the sides a little bit and continue.
Round 3: single crochet in each stitch around (46 SC)
Round 4: single crochet in each stitch around, but you will insert a hook in back loops only,
as you see on the picture below (46 SC)
Round 5: [inc] - repeat 3 times totally, 1 SC in next 17 stitches, [inc] - repeat 6 times totally,
1 SC in next 17 stitches, [inc] – repeat 3 times totally (58 SC)
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Round 6: [1 SC in next stitch, inc] - repeat 3 times totally, 1 SC in next 17 stitches, [1 SC in
next stitch, inc] - repeat 6 times totally, 1 SC in next 16 stitches, [1 SC in next stitch, inc] -
repeat 3 times totally (69 SC). Shape it by hands nicely.
Round 7 - 25: single crochet in each stitch around (69 SC)
Round 26: you will crochet only 1 SC in next 10 stitches 1 SlSt in next stitch, end the work.
(Here you will sew the combs).
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Eyes
Use white yarn. Make 2 same pieces
Round 1: CH 2, insert a hook in second stitch from the hook and crochet SC 5 (5 SC)
Round 2: [inc] – repeat 5 times totally (10 SC)
Round 3: single crochet in each stitch around (10 SC)
Round 4: [dec, 1 SC in next stitch] – repeat 2 times totally, 1 SC in next stitch (7 SC)
End the work. Neaten free threads. Sew tiny button mushroom button average 6 mm or black
bead in the middle of the eye. Fill the eyes with small amount of toy filling and sew them
above the bill, very close to each other.
Bill
Round 1: use hot pink yarn and make CH 2, insert a hook into second stitch from the hook
and crochet SC 4 (4 SC)
Round 2: [inc] – repeat 4 times totally (8 SC)
Round 3: single crochet in each stitch around (8 SC)
Round 4: [1 SC in next stitch, inc] – repeat 4 times totally (12 SC)
Round 5: 1 SC in each stitch around (12 SC). End the work. Let longer thread for the sewing
the bill. Fill the bill with small amount of toy filling and sew it onto the hen's body.
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Wings
Use red yarn. Make 2 same pieces.
Row 1: CH 4, (first CH 3 count as first DC), make 5 DC in the 4th chain from the hook (6 DC),
CH 3 (counted as first DC of next row), turn the work
Round 2: 1 DC in very first DC from previous row, 2 DC in each of the next 5 DC (12 DC),
CH 3 (counted as first DC of next row), turn the work
Round 3: DC 1 in very first DC from previous row, [2 DC in one stitch, 1 DC in next stitch] -
repeat it 5 times totally, 2 DC in one stitch (19 DC), CH 3 (counted as first DC), turn the work
Round 4: DC 1 in very first DC from previous row, [2 DC in one stitch, 1 DC in next 2 stitches]
– repeat it 6 times totally (26 DC)
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Round 5: don't turn the work and crochet around upper straight edge and make CH 1, 1 SC in
next 16 stitches (you will make 2 SC in every DC on it's side – please see the picture below).
End the work.
Sew white bead average 6 mm or buttons average 8 mm on the wings. Use common sewing
thread and needle. Use tapestry needle and yellow yarn and sew with blanket stitch around
circle edge. Sew the wing on the hen's body. Let the upper edge un-sewn like a pocket. Sew
one big button on the wing, average 33 mm.
Wings
Use yellow yarn, make 2 same pieces.
Beginning: CH 5, join with 1 SlSt and make a ring
Round 1: crochet 13 SC in the middle of the ring, join first stitch with 1 SlSt (13 SC)
Round 2: CH 4, insert a hook in the 3rd stitch from the hook and crochet DC 1, DC 1 in next
CH, 1 SlSt in next SC from previous round
Round 3: CH 5, insert a hook in the 3rd stitch from the hook and crochet DC 1, DC 1 in next 2
chains, 1 SlSt in next SC from previous round
Round 4: CH 4, insert a hook in the 3rd stitch from the hook and crochet DC 1, DC 1 in next
CH, 1 SlSt in next SC from previous round. End the work.
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Legs
Use two threads of yarn, pink color, hook 3 mm and crochet CH 10 (10 CH), end the work.
Make two pieces of the chain. Pull the chain into the middle of the leg and tie up these two
parts together. Place crocheted leg on small piece of the felt. Copy the shape of the leg on the
felt and cut it out by scissors. Sew these two parts together using common sewing thread and
needle. Make blanket stitch. Pull second end of the chain through hen's body and tie the chain
into the hen.
Pull the legs into the hen's body. Use you hook. Neaten free threads inside the body
Comb
Use red yarn, make 3 pieces.
Bigger part: crochet 1 piece
Round 1: CH 2, SC 7 in second SC from hook (7 SC)
Round 2: inc in each stitch around (14 SC)
Round 3: single crochet in each stitch around (14 SC)
Round 4: [dec, 1 SC in next stitch] – repeat it 4 times totally, dec, 1 SC in next stitch (6 SC)
Round 5– 8: single crochet in each stitch around (6 SC), end the work.
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Smaller part: crochet 2 pieces
Round 1: CH 2, SC 5 in second SC from hook (5 SC)
Round 2: inc in each stitch around (10 SC)
Round 3: single crochet in each stitch around (10 SC)
Round 4: [dec] – repeat it 5 times totally (5 SC)
Round 5-6: single crochet in each stitch around (5 SC), end the work.
Neaten free threads and sew the comb into the hen.
Put all pieces into the hen's body, above the eyes and sew them. Use common sewing thread
and needle.
Tail
You will need 2 cm /1 inch width ribbon about 80 cm (31.5 inches) long. Form a tail by your
fingers, sew the end.
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Finishing
After sewing the comb and tail, fill the hen's body with toy filling and sew the rest of the body.
Use orange yarn, tapestry needle. Neaten the end of the yarn.
Congratulation!
Your hen is finished :-)
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