Easter is the most anticipated spring holiday. People prepare thoroughly for this day - prepare treats, paint eggs, clean and decorate the house. beautiful products will bring a lot of pleasure. For decoration festive table For Easter, as well as for gifts, I suggest knitting colorful chickens.

For knitting chickens You can use various leftover yarn, combining colors as you wish. The main part of the chicken should be knitted tightly, using yarn of medium thickness or by folding a thin thread into several folds, then the knitted chicken will keep its shape.

Description of knitting chickens for Easter:

Start knitting from the head. From the ring, make 3 chain stitches and 12 double crochets, close the row into a circle with a connecting loop.

Next, knit circular rows with single crochets. In the first row, make increases by knitting 2 tbsp from one loop, through 3 loops, in the next two through 4 loops. The knitting takes the shape of a cap - this is the top of the head.

Knit the next two rows without increases, and then three rows with decreases, knitting 2 tbsp together through 4 loops.

We form hangers by knitting a row of double crochets. Make 2 chain lifting loops and knit treble s/n, making increases - from one loop, knitting 2 treble s/n through one loop. Finish the row with a connecting loop and start knitting the skirt.

The chicken skirt is knitted with a fan pattern. In the first row of the skirt, knit fans like this: *skip one loop from the next one, knit 5 sts, secure the resulting fan with a connecting post, skipping one loop from the previous row*, repeat *-* until the end of the row.

To move the knitting to the second row of fans, knit along the first fan with connecting loops to the top, and knit the first fan of the second row from 5 sts, sticking a hook between the fans of the previous row, fasten the fans at the tops of the previous row.

Having finished the second row, proceed to the beginning of the third row as well. In the third row of the fan, knit from 5 tbsp. s/2n. In the fourth fan, knit from 6 sts s/2n, in the fifth from 7 sts s/2n. Finish knitting the skirt with the last row of connecting stitches so that the edge holds its shape better.

To knit a scallop, attach a red thread and knit 3 arches from 4 chains. loops along the top of the head. Having secured the last arch with a connecting post, turn the work and knit back from each arch a double stitch, a half stitch, 3 double stitches, a half stitch, a double stitch.

To knit a beak, join the yarn in place, make 3 chain stitches and 2 double crochets at the same point from the same point. Fasten and cut the thread.

The wings are knitted on the sides. First, knit arches from 5 air. loops, secure them with connecting posts. Back from each arch, knit st b/n, half st., st s/n, 2 st s/2n, st s/n, half st., st s/n. Attach a thread of a different color to the edge of the wing and knit along each mound: sc, half treble, 6 treble, half treble, treble.

Handicrafts before Easter!

In the Christian tradition, Easter occupies a special place as the “Feast of Feasts”. This is where the main meaning lies Orthodox faith- delivering people from the power of death and sin. Orthodox Church has been celebrating Easter for more than two thousand years. Its meaning was taught by the apostles, who passed on the tradition of celebration to their disciples. Thus, from generation to generation, the tradition of celebrating Easter has reached us and spread throughout the world.
The Easter holiday is moveable, that is, its date in each specific year is calculated according to the lunar-solar calendar. Precedes Easter Lent, a time of abstinence, when all holidays, including family ones, are transferred to the celebration of Easter, and the scope of Easter folk festivities is associated with breaking the fast after Lent. The symbols of Easter are everything that expresses Renewal (Easter streams), Light (Easter fire), Life (Easter cakes, eggs and hares)

Celebrating Easter is, of course, not only about attending divine services. This holiday has always been loved by the people and many customs are associated with it: decorating the table in a special way, preparing special treats, giving each other special gifts!

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On the eve of any holiday, it is customary to decorate the interior of the room with themed souvenirs. And the Easter holiday is no exception. For this day, people bake Easter cakes, paint eggs and prepare souvenirs for loved ones. One of these is knitted Easter cake. It is not difficult to knit, but there are still some difficulties in this work. But, first things first.

For work we use 2 colors of yarn (you can use leftovers) white and brown, colored threads, beads, beads, synthetic fluff.

First we knit the bottom of the Easter cake

We make a sliding loop and knit 6 single crochets into it. We tighten the loop and then begin to add loops in the rows so that the knitting evenly expands. In the first row we knit 2 single crochets in each base loop, in the second row we alternate 2 single crochets in one base loop, 1 single crochet in one base loop. In the third - 2 single crochets in one base loop, 2 single crochets in each base loop. And so on until we get a circle of the required diameter.

The next row should “raise” the walls of the cake. Therefore, we knit one single crochet into each loop of the base, but we insert the hook not into the entire loop, but behind its back wall. Having knitted one row in this way, we knit all subsequent rows one single crochet into each loop of the previous row, crocheting the entire loop. After a couple of rows, the bend edge of the canvas will be visible.

Having tied the cake to the desired height, fasten the thread and cut off the rest.

We stuff it tightly with synthetic down.

We also knit a slip stitch from white yarn and knit 6-10 single crochet stitches into it. We tighten the loop and then begin to add loops in the rows so that the knitting evenly expands. We make an increase in the same way as we did in the bottom of the Easter cake, but we knit single crochet stitches.

Until you get a circle whose diameter is larger than the diameter of the Easter cake. You can tie everything around the edge with shells.

We pin a white circle on the Easter cake and sew it on.

Now you need to decorate the top of the cake. You can use anything you like, beads, colored threads, beads, etc.

I decided to make a small decoration using colored threads. We thread the needle into knitted fabric and wind the end of the thread onto it. Then we pull the needle and we get a colored sewn decoration.

Today our guest is designer Zoya Prishyvalko and together we will make a very funny knitted toy-changeling “Egg-Chick”!

"Surprise my children new toy usually difficult, the effect of the novelty of the acquisition does not last long. That's why I'm looking for toy ideas that I can hang out with for a long time. In this case, there is a high probability that my girls will not be able to tear themselves away from such a toy.

The idea for this shapeshifting egg is not mine - I found it on the Internet. I tried to knit the most obvious option - an egg-chicken, but there should be no limits to the boundless parent-child imagination! And then not only a duck, a crocodile or an owl, but also a hare, a mouse or even some unprecedented creature can hatch from the egg. The main thing is that the “surprise” effect is maintained.

Well, shall we get started?

We will need:
A little yarn of yellow, milky and orange colors of suitable density (I have it Alize Lanagold);
hook No. 3;
buttons or beads for eyes.

The diagrams will make your work easier - check not only the photographs, but also them (at the end of the material you will find verbal descriptions for them):

First, we knit the body of the chicken. We knit 6 non-woven stitches into the magic ring and continue to knit according to the pattern in a spiral, without closing the rows. We knit the loop behind the back wall, so the shape will be more stable. We alternate a row with increases and a row without increases in order to knit the characteristic egg shape. After 17 rows of knitting you should get something like this.

To smoothly round the shape, we decrease our knitting in each row; for this, in the first row we knit every 9 and 10 loops together, in the second - every 8 and 9 loops, and so on. IN last row decreases need to be knitted every 5th and 6th stitch together. The chicken body is ready.

Using a milky thread using the same description, we knit an egg.

To knit a chicken wing, take a yellow thread. First, we knit 4 single crochets into a magic ring, and then we knit the loops in a spiral behind the back wall, without closing our knitting in each row, using pattern number 2. Do not forget that there should be 2 wings.

We knit the beak of the chicken by analogy with the other described parts of the chicken. We start knitting with 6 ch. into the air ring. In the second row we double every second loop, getting 9 stitches, in the third row we double every third loop - 12 stitches, we knit the 4th row with stitches in a circle.

We knit a chicken foot from orange threads in straight and reverse rows as follows. We dial 2 v.p. loops and 1 ch. rise, turn the knitting. In the first row we knit 2 tbsp. b/n, in the second we double each column - 4 columns, in the third row we double the first and last column - 6 columns. Next we knit the “fingers” of the paw: 3 ch. rise, lush column, 3 ch, connecting stitch in the second loop of the base - this is one finger. Repeat 2 more times.

We sew wings, beak, legs and button eyes to the body of the chicken.

We place the chicken and egg with the right sides of the bases facing each other and overlap them through the back walls of the posts. We cut and hide the thread. Ready.

Knitting pattern for a chicken body.
1. 6x =6
2. 6v = 12
3. (vx)*6 = 18
4. 18x = 18
5. (v2x)*6 = 24
6. 24x = 24
7. (v3x)*6 = 30
8. 30x = 30
9. (v4x)*6 = 36
10. 36x = 36
11. (v5x)*6 = 42
12. 42x = 42
13. (v6x)*6 = 48
14. 48x = 48
15. (v7x)*6 = 54
16.54x = 54
17. (v8x)*6 = 60
18-23. 60x = 60
24. (8xᴧ)*6= 54
25. (7xᴧ)*6 = 48
26. (6xᴧ)*6 = 42
27. (5xᴧ)*6 = 36
28. (4xᴧ)*6 = 30

Winglet diagram
1. 4x = 4
2. 4v = 8
3. (xv) = 12
4. (2xv) = 16
5-8. 16x = 16
9. (2xᴧ)*4 = 12
10. 12x = 12

Beak diagram.
1. 6x = 6
2. (xv)*3 = 9
3. (2xv)*3 = 12
4. 12x = 12

Lyudmila Klimenko

I invite you to look at my work" Easter crocheted with your own hands". I needed to get started work:Threads for Easter, threads for glaze, hook, rhinestones and beads.

.Easter started knitting in the round starting from the center air loops, The sides were knitted at a height of approximately 10-12 centimeters.

Turn the can upside down. We put synthetic padding on the bottom and we pull it all over Easter related , securing the bottom by decreasing the loops.

For further work we will be needed: Sewing threads, rhinestones and beads. "we sew the icing onto the top part Easter. We sew rhinestones and beads onto the “glaze” to imitate powder.

The next stage of knitting is addition: plate. I also knit in a circle from the center, the circle should be slightly wider than the bottom Easter.

This is what happened. Not enough to complete the job easter eggs. For this we need threads of different colors (preferably bright color).

Foam rubber, scissors for cutting foam rubber into pieces, crochet hook. Knitting Easter egg from the center of the circle starting with air loops. We knit the sides to the middle of the egg and then begin to reduce the number of loops. Shaping easter egg.

We don’t finish it. stuff the “egg” with pieces of foam rubber to maintain the shape of the egg. After closing the egg, reduce the number of loops.

This is how it turned out easter eggs.

And this is what I got in the kit.

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