With main color yarn:
R 1: 6 sc in mc (6)
R 2: 1 sc, inc, 2 sc, inc, 1 sc (8)
R 3: 8 sc
R 4: (3 sc, inc) * 2 (10)
R 5: 2 sc, inc, 4 sc, inc, 2 sc (12)
Fold the top opening flat and 6 sc through both sides across.
F. o. and leave a long tail for sewing.
Sew the wings to the body in R 11.
Egg shell
With white yarn:
R 1: 6 sc in mc (6)
R 2: (inc) * 6 (12)
R 3: (1 sc, inc) * 6 (18)
R 4: 1 sc, inc, (2 sc, inc) * 5, 1 sc (24)
R 5: (3 sc, inc) * 6 (30)
R 6: (9 sc, inc) * 3 (33)
R 7: 5 sc, inc, 10 sc, inc, 10 sc, inc, 5 sc (36)
R 8-9: 36 sc (2 rows)
Crochet along the edge with “crab stitch” (reverse single crochet).
F. o.
Crest
With orange yarn:
Make 8 ch.
From the 3rd chain from hook: (2 dc in one st, 1 ch, 1 sl st, 2 ch) *2, 2 dc in one st, 1 ch, 1 sl st.
F. o. and leave a long tail for sewing.
Sew the crest to the top of the head.
Embroider eyes with a brown yarn, a beak with a red one and feet with an orange one.
