Materials

• 2.25 mm crochet hook (size B)
• Cotton yarn:
– soft pink – 10g / 32m (35 yards)
– yellow – 5g / 16m (17 yards)
– small amount of black
• Polyfill to stuff
• Tapestry needle
• Stitchmarkers and pins

This sample was made with Alize Cotton Gold (half-cotton yarn): soft pink #393, YarnArt Jeans (half-cotton yarn): yellow #35. Size of finished toy: 2.5” (6 cm) tall

Abbreviations

A – soft pink color
B – yellow color
ch – chain
sc – single crochet
dc – double crochet
hdc – half double crohet
2dc cluster – 2dc with one top
slst – slip stitch
inc – increase (2 sc in indicated stitch)
dec – 2 sc together (decrease)
(___st) – total amount of stitches in a rnd
() Nx – repeat between () N times
rnd – round
st – stitch

Body

Use color A
R01: 6sc in magic ring (6)
R02: (inc) 6x (12)
R03: (sc, inc) 6x (18)
R04: (2sc, inc) 6x (24)
R05: (3sc, inc) 6x (30)
R06: sc in each st around (30)
R07: (4sc, inc) 6x (36)
R08: sc in each st around (36)

R09: (5sc, inc) 6x (42)
R10-14: sc in each st around (42)
R15: (4sc, dec) 6x, 6sc (36)
R16: (3sc, dec) 6x, 6sc (30)
R17: (2sc, dec) 6x, 6sc (24)
Stuff the detail with filling material
R18: (sc, dec) 6x, 6sc (18)
R19: (dec) 6x, 6sc (12)

R20-24: sc in each st around (12)
R25: (inc, 5sc) 2x (14)
R26: (inc, 6sc) 2x (16)
R27: (inc, 7sc) 2x (18)
R28: (inc, 8sc) 2x (20)
R29: 6sc, stop this rnd here (6)
We reached the side of a tail. Stuff the detail with filling material again.
R08: Flatten tail and crochet through both sides to the end: (sc, hdc, dc, hdc, slst) 2x (10)
Fasten off, cut the yarn, weave in end.

Wings (make 2)

Use color A
R01: 6sc in magic ring (6)
R02: (inc) 6x (12)
R03: (sc, inc) 2x, sc, slst, ch3, slst in a first st of a ch, (slst, ch5, slst in a first st of a ch) 2x, slst, ch3, slst in a first st of a ch, slst, sc, inc (15)
Fasten off, cut the yarn, leaving long tail for sewing.

Legs (make 2)

Use color B
R01: 6sc in magic ring (6)
R02: 2inc, (slst, ch3, continue in 2nd ch from hook 2slst) 3x, inc (15)
Fasten off, cut the yarn, leaving long tail for sewing.

Beak

Use color B
R01: Make magic adjustable ring and work into it: (ch2, 2dc cluster, ch2, slst) 2x. Pull tail to close the ring.
Fasten off, cut the yarn, leaving long tail for sewing.

Assembling

• Sew the beak to the start point of a body (first rnd)
• Sew the legs in a circle to the bottom of a body between 11th and 14th rnds of it. Leave the fingers not sewn.
• Sew the wings in a circle to the sides of a body between 11th and 16th rnds of it. Leave the feathers not sewn.

• Take a piece of black yarn and embroider eyes on the sides of a body between 5th and 10th rnds of it. The distance between eyes – 10sc along the 5th rnd of a body.
Congratulations! Your Bird is finished!

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All Finished.