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🦘 BIN CHICKEN AMIGURUMI — CROCHET PATTERN (PDF DOWNLOAD)
Every Australian park has one: the white ibis stalking the picnic tables with the confidence of a bird who pays rent. The bin chicken tips bin lids, inspects chip packets and considers every sandwich legally his. Now you can crochet your own — considerably smaller, and much less likely to steal your lunch.
Our bin chicken stands proudly on two long black wire-cored legs, one foot planted on the lid of his own little grey rubbish bin, exactly as shown in the photos: plump white body, long curved neck, a layered scalloped wing on each side, three flat tail feathers, and a very long black beak — bent downwards by the pattern’s own curve rounds — holding one golden hot chip crosswise. His eyes are embroidered closed in pure contentment. He has exactly two legs and eight toes. We counted. Twice.
✋ HONEST DETAILS
• The eyes are EMBROIDERED in black thread — this pattern uses no plastic safety eyes and no plastic parts anywhere. Everything is yarn, thread, stuffing and craft wire.
• The legs and neck are worked around craft wire (about 60 cm, listed in the materials), which is how he stands, poses with one foot on the bin lid, and holds his neck in its S-curve. Wire ends are looped and buried in stuffing, and the pattern shows you how.
• The chip is a separate sewn piece: stitch it into the beak tip as shown, or leave it loose as a prop.
• The bin lid is hinged with a few stitches at the back, so it tips open and shut.
📏 FINISHED SIZE
Standing about 29 cm tall from toes to the top of the head. The rubbish bin is about 5.6 cm across and 6.4 cm tall.
🧶 YOU WILL NEED
DK (8 ply) cotton — about 62 m white, 20 m black, 32 m grey, and a scrap of golden yellow (full stitch-counted yarn table inside the pattern), 3.00 mm hook, toy stuffing, about 60 cm of 18-gauge craft wire, yarn needle, embroidery needle and black embroidery thread, stitch markers and scissors.
📄 WHAT YOU GET
An 18-page PDF pattern with round-by-round instructions for every piece (body, head and neck in one piece, curved beak, wing panels with their layered feather strips, tail feathers, legs, toes, rubbish bin, hinged lid, handles and the hot chip), stitch counts on every round, the beak curve-round technique explained, wire-work and standing-balance guides, an embroidery guide for the closed happy eyes, full assembly steps and posing tips. US crochet terms. Confident-beginner friendly — if you can single crochet, increase and decrease, you can make a bin chicken.
💛 MORE FROM OUR SHOP
You might also like our Brush-Turkey Amigurumi Crochet Pattern Vol 1 — another Aussie bird with big opinions, our Aussie Christmas Crochet Patterns — Koala & Friends Ornament Set, and our Crochet Hand Puppet Patterns — 6 Aussie Animals with Talking Mouths.
All sales are final on digital downloads, but if you get stuck on a round, message us — we are always happy to help a fellow bin chicken wrangler.
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Created with the help of an AI generator.
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