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Free Knitting Pattern for Fluffy Easter Chicks (containing a creme egg)

Submitted by Anjie Davison on Fri, 01/22/2010 - 15:22.
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Fluffy chick

Using my basic Free Pattern for Knitted Easter Chicks (containing creme egg)  I made some additions. To make the chicks I used Fancy Yarn (Fur), instead of the DK yarn and a pair of 3.75mm (9 UK, 5 US) size needles, you may need larger or smaller size needles depending on your knitting tension. I'm very pleased with the resulting fluffy chicks, they just look so comical. For the hatchlings eyes I used beads.

Fluffy chicks
Fluffy chick
Blue bird fluffy chick
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Anjie's Knitted Bead Necklace

Submitted by Anjie Davison on Wed, 07/29/2009 - 14:54.
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Anjie's knitted Bead necklace
i-cord
Starting to knit the bead from the i-cord
Knitting on four needles
The bead is starting to take shape
Filling the bead with stuffing
A finished bead
Winding the tail of yarn around a finger to form loop for fastening
Loop fastening created with buttonhole stitch
Finished looped fastening and button
Finished necklace

I think I am finally happy with my pattern, I hope I have explained it clearly enough for anyone to try! 

This is what I used for my necklace but you could use any oddments of yarn and size of needle, it would be nice in a cotton yarn too

Needles: one set of four double pointed needles (DPNs) size 2.0mm (14 UK / 0 US)

Knitted beads
knitted bead necklace
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Flower Loom

Submitted by Anjie Davison on Thu, 04/09/2009 - 10:23.
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Felted flower loom blooms with beading
A while ago I bought a children's knitting set from Poundland because, amoungst other things, it had a knitting Nancy for French knitting included. Now my attention has turned to the flower loom. Flower looms were popular in the 70's, I've included an advert of the Ronco flower loom, marvel at what they made! I haven't used a flower loom before and decided to have a play. Looking at the resulting 'flowers' I thought they would be perfect for felting. I am really pleased with the results and think they could be used to embellish a myriad of things.
 
Knitting set from Poundland
Progression of a flower from loom to felting
Flowers produced using a flower loom
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