There has been a craze lately for knitted comfort chickens, and not so long ago I spotted a kit for a Fancy Hen on the Woolly Thistle web site. It was pretty adorable, and I have a friend who likes chickens, so I decided to knit her one. I also have some chicken-themed tea towels to send her along with the knitted chicken. I picked out some colors and ordered the kit and at the end of June I finally cast on. After the first few rows it sat around for a little while, but this past week I have been working on it a little more steadily. To make it easier I added some markers to identify where the increases go, and I also switched the type of increase I was using. The pattern calls for picking up the strand between stitches, but that is a bit fiddly, so I went with lifted increases. At this point I am through all of the increases, and halfway through the colorwork. The colorwork was one of the things that drew me to this pattern.
My cast on edge was curling a lot and it was annoying me, so I clipped the cast on edges together to keep them from doing that. This is my first time using this yarn, it is Norwegian, and is, as they say, rustic, but I have lately come to appreciate the qualities of yarn that hasn’t been superwashed, which really does strip it of any woolly characteristics.
Pattern: Fancy Hen by Ella Austin
Yarn: Rauma Garn 3-Trads Strikkegarn
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