When my nephew Henry was just seven years old he asked Santa for some laying hens for Christmas. According to Henry, Santa in New Lanark was so shocked he almost fell off his sleigh. Henry had to wait a few months but he finally got his Christmas present and he called his three hens Rosemary, Sage and Thyme. Henrys hens started laying eggs immediately and Thyme became Henry’s favourite because she laid beautiful brown eggs with lovely orange yolks. Henry became very popular at school because he often gave his teachers and friends a box of his wonderful eggs.

Everything was fine for the first few years and the hens were completely free range and slept in a coup at night. But then the fox came! First he got Mr Pumper the rabbit and then Sage and then Rosemary. Henry was devastated and got his dad to immediately build a huge electric fenced enclosure to keep Thyme safe. A neighbour kindly gave Henry some brown hens to keep Thyme company and so keep her laying those fantastic eggs. Sadly Thyme died peacefully this summer of old age and Henry asked me to knit him a lifesize replica so that he would never forget her.

So I did and as a surprise I also made him a matching beanie hat to wear when collecting the eggs before school each morning.
Designing the hen proved to be more difficult than I imagined, I knew they had red bits but was not sure where exactly.
I went to my local butcher and asked to buy a chicken head. The butcher said “You won’t get much meat off of that love” and I said “That’s O.K. I’m not going to eat it I’m going to knit it!” The head turned out quite good so I then went on to design the body.

Henry had helped by sending me a very detailed diagram with all the relevant measurements, he also sent me some photos of his hens but I had trouble with working out the shape due to all the feathers.
I decided there was only one way to go so I went out and bought a chicken for our tea. Before roasting it I took all the elastic rings off and turned it upside down and positioned it in a standing position and this really helped with the design. Just don’t tell my husband what I did to it before serving him his dinner!
I designed the hen to stand free yet retain its delicate feet.
I designed a feather but realised single feathers would take forever so I made a row of feathers in ascending size and that worked very well with the tail.
Henry’s Hen Thyme is knitted in dk on 3 mm needles and is 45 cm long and 45 cm high.This pattern costs £1.95 for a pdf download or £3.50 for a printed copy with free worldwide postage. Just click on the relevant button.
TOY HEN KNITTING PATTERN

Henry’s Hen Thyme beanie hat is knitted mainly on 4 mm needles in the same dk and the pattern covers 4 sizes XS,S,M & L so can be made for anyone mad enough to wear one with a head circumference between 14-24 inches.

The Henry’s Hen Thyme Beanie Hat knitting pattern costs £1.95 for a pdf download or £3.50 for a printed version with free postage.
HEN BEANIE KNITTING PATTERN

Henry is delighted with both his hen and beanie but is thinking of asking santa for a cock this year so that he can start breeding his hens.I get the feeling I may be getting requests from henry to design some eggs and chicks aw well as a cock so keep a lookout on this page.
Why not take advantage of my special offer and buy BOTH the hen toy and the matching beanie hat knitting patterns for just £2.95 as a pdf download. Just click on the special offer button to get this great deal.
BUY BOTH TOY HEN AND HEN BEANIE PDF PATTERNS FOR ONLY £2.95

This is Elsie Elephant and her baby Elvis.
Elsie is knitted in dk on 4 mm needles and stands at 25cm high and 30 cm long.
Elvis is knitted in microknit format in no8 perle cotton on 1.2 mm needles and he is just 10 cm high and 15 cm long.

The Elsie Elephant and Baby Elvis knitting pattern costs £2.95 for a pdf download which I will personally email to you or £4.25 for a printed copy with free worldwide post.

N.B. Both Elsie and Elvis knitting patterns can be purchased seperately (see below).

Here we have Lucy Llama who is proudly showing off her new baby Lulu.
Lucy llama stands at 60 cm high and baby Lulu llama is 40 cm high.
Lucy is knitted in wool boucle using my Superfast technique which is four times faster than normal knitting because it uses 8 mm knitting needles and Lulu is knitted in Sassy on 4 mm needles. Both are very quick and simple to make.

You can buy this pattern for £2.50 as a pdf download which I will email to you asap after payment is received or £3.95 for a printed copy with free postage worldwide.

This is my knitting pattern for Fizz and Fuzz the baby orangutan identical twins.
Although these baby orangutans are impossible to tell apart their knitting patterns are surprisingly each quite different.
Fizz stands at 50 cm high and Fuzz is 80 cm high.
Even their mannerisms are exactly the same as you can see here.

Both Fizz and Fuzz are knitted mainly using my Superfast technique on 8 mm needles which is 4 times faster than ordinary knitting and are so quick and simple to make that they only take a couple of days to complete.
The pattern provides full instructions to make jointed versions as can be seen here or slightly simpler non- jointed versions.

You can buy a pdf download for the Fizz and Fuzz Baby Orangutan Identical Twins pattern for £2.95 or a printed copy with free postage for £4.95 with free worldwide postage.

They are both knitted in Ice Eyelash which is cheap and available to buy on line.

This is Fuzz the Baby Orangutan.She is an identical twin and its impossible to tell her and twin sister Fizz apart.
Fuzz is 80 cm high and mostly knitted using my Superfast technique on 8 mm needles which is four times faster than ordinary knitting.
Fuzz is fully jointed which allows her to have fun climbing but the knitting pattern also provides full instructions to make a slightly simpler non- jointed version.

The knitting pattern for Fuzz the Baby Orangutan Identical twin costs £1.95 for a pdf download which I will personally email to you asap after payment is received or £3.50 for a printed copy with free worldwide post.

The eyelash yarn used here can be purchased online from Turkey and is very cheap.Send me a message if you require further details.

This is Fizz the Baby Orangutan.She is an identical twin and its impossible to tell her and twin sister Fuzz apart.
Fizz is 50 cm high and mostly knitted using my Superfast technique on 8 mm needles which is four times faster than ordinary knitting.
Fizz is fully jointed so can have lots of fun but the knitting pattern also provides instructions to make a slightly simpler non- jointed version.

This knitting pattern for Fizz the Baby Orangutan identical twin costs £1.95 for a pdf download which I will personallyemail to you asap after payment is received or £3.50 for a printed copy with free worldwide post.

The eyelash yarn used here can be purchased online from Turkey and is very cheap.Send me a message via the contact page if you require further details.

Here is Engelbert Elephant. He is the latest of my superfast patterns to be released.
Engelbert is as enormous as an elephant standing at 40 cm high and 60 cm long yet using my Superfast technique he is quick and easy to make. As with all of my Superfast patterns 8 mm knitting needles are used making it 4 times faster than normal knitting.
I chose to make Engelbert in grey mohair which I bought cheap on Ebay and you can use any dk yarn of your choice so he does not have to cost a fortune to make. Just make sure you have plenty of stuffing!
The Engelbert Elephant Superfast knitting pattern costs £1.95 for a pdf download which I will personally email to you or £3.50 for a printed copy with free worldwide post, just click on the relevant blue button.

As you can see Engelbert is much much bigger than baby Elvis but I’m sure they will soon be friends.

This is Elvis Elephant. He is the latest of my micro knitting patterns to be released. As with all of my micro knitting patterns Elvis is knitted with no 8 perle cotton on any knitting needles between 1 and 1.5 mm depending on how brave you feel. I chose 1.2 mm needles and this Elvis is just 10 cm high and 15 cm long. If this is too small for you there are plenty of bigger elephant patterns to choose from but this is a real treat for amigurumi lovers.
The Elvis Elephant Micro knitting pattern costs £1.95 for a pdf download which I will personally email to you asap after payment is recieved or £3.50 for a printed copy with free worldwide post.Just click on the relevant blue button.

Elvis is trying to help clear up my madmonkey garden for me but really misses his mum Elsie who will be arriving soon!

This is my Micro Chester Chimpanzee Toy knitting pattern. Its knitted in an amigurumi style or micro format as I prefer to call it on 1.00 mm needles with no8 perle cotton. Micro Chester is only 10 cm high and the pattern provides full instructions to make a jointed version with moving head, arms and legs (as seen here) or a simpler non-jointed version.

This pattern is available to buy here for £1.95 as a pdf download which I will email to you; or for £3.50 as a printed version with free worldwide postage.

This is the micro version knitting pattern for Tracy Triceratops. As you can see Micro Tracy is an exact miniature copy of the original Tracy Triceratops yet she stands at only 10 cm high and 21 cm long.

Micro Tracy is knitted in an amigurumi style or micro format as I prefer to call it on 1.00 mm needles and in no 8 perle cotton.
You can buy this pattern here for £2.50 as a pdf download which I will email to you once payment is received or for £3.95 for a printed copy with worldwide postage included.