I have to admit that yarn is a beast of a mess! You'd think I'd have learned to stay away after I crocheted an ahgan for our RV. We named it Faux Kitty cause who needs a real cat to shed everywhere when Faux Kitty does it so well herself! Black eyelash yarn, tan carpet need I say more?

Great tutorial! :-D

Baskets, I don't have the cute comb hair yarn, but still wanted to make a chicken! Here's my first try and your directions were great! I now want to make the bigger ones...what sizes do you use for the squares on your 6" chickens?

vert cute :-D

She's adorable!! I love the rick rack hair! I don't have a 6" chick with me to measure, I believe the beaks, 2 nested to look like an open beak, were maybe 2 inch squares to start with. The tail squares were about 3-1/2" or so. Sorry I can't be more specific you'll just have to play around until she looks good. But that's the fun part, you can't make them wrong, just make them your way. Have fun!
Looking at your picture again I usually put the beak seam down but I think I like your way better!

I will have to try this!! Great job!!

Those are some groovy chicks :XD: I made mine with two minny log cabins and filled them with plastic pellets and cotton batting. I love the addition of eyelash yarn. I might make another one only groovy this time!

I had a friend take a picture of her large chicken I made for her last year. You can see how I doubled the beak.

Thank you for the tutorial..I have printed it out and will make some for my friends and family.

I have the 'regular' chicken...now I'm ready to try one of your funky chickens. Cute. Thanks. :thumbup:

Here is my Quilted Funky Chicken Pincushion.

and here is my try at the funky chicken...

Cute, cute, cute!!! Love 'em!!!

Very cute and excellent tut! Thanks.

They are so cute , will try to make one.

I love the fuzzy yarn you used for the comb...they are all too cute!! You have a nice little 'flock' of chickens there *LOL* crafty_linda_b

Keep those pictures coming while I try my attempt at a chicken.

These are so cute .

Thanks for the tutorial, and the funky hair!

so cute, thanks for the tutorial and thanks everyone for sharing the pictures of the ones that you make

So glad to come across this tutorial. I have one of the chickens Doreen Speckman made - autographed no less. Thank you for giving her credit for first making these chickens. I think her daughter sold the pattern for a while after Doreen passed. She (Doreen) would have the biggest laugh at the "funky" chickens showing up everywhere! Can't wait to dig into my selvage stash and make up a couple of these.

I am a funky chicken fan!

This was great! Thanks

adorable and great tut! Thanks.

I just love the chickens everyone made. Very cute.

Thank you for sharing this tute!! I have a book by Sharlene Jorgenson that gives instructions to make these but I like your picture tutorial better!! It's much easier to understand how to go about it by looking at the photos rather than drawn illustrations.

In Dec of 2000 a friend gave me a tiny one that had been made into a Christmas ornament. It was made with a narrow long cabin pattern, but I have been making crumb quilt squares and now I want to try one of these with crumbs. I really like how your selvage chicken looks!! I just measured the square that was used, for the Christmas ornament and it is 2 inches (finished size).

thanks for the tute need any more scraps or selvage??

very cute

Very cute chicken. I really need to try to make one.

Love the funky hair! I will have to try one like that, thx!

I can always use more selvages. My dh thinks not, but what does he know about important things like that? :roll:

Thanks so much! I love working with selvedges and these chicks are darling! Perfect project!

This was a wonderful tut. Thanks so much. I will make one soon and post a picture. I think for those selvages that are cut too close for much else, this would be a great use for them. So greta of you to share and everyone's creations are great. I think my guild member friends might each get one for Christmas.

OMG!!! I love them....too adorable! I am a big fan of your funky chickens....I will have to make some too...will share picture when it happens....cannot wait to go get some of that yarn...

Thank you for sharing!!!!

I think they are so adorable!!! :thumbup:

I love this little selvage chicken, but for the life of me, I can't find where I can save this tuturial for future reference. Can anyone help???

sew sew very cute!

Wow this looks fun and will make great little gifts for quilting buddies. Now if I can figure out how to bookmark?

This is so cute! Thank you for posting, even though it took time to get it all uploaded. I am a new quilter, and this is just perfect for gifting some of my new friends. Just SEW cute!

This is very cute, I might have to try one.

sure wish the old format on the pages was still in effect, hard to print this pattern or any instructions with all this other on the pages, I dotn need to use for stuff that shows blank posts or ads