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Today is Day 6 of the Summer Cookout Mini Amigururmi Crochet Along which means we are halfway done! The mini amigurumi food that is joining the summer cookout today is a Little Chicken Drumstick.
I wanted to include some kind of meat or "main dish" type of food besides just a hot dog and hamburger, which seemed like the most obvious ones to include to me, but I had kind of a hard time deciding what that should be. I feel like a lot of those main dish type of foods are meat and as I was considering different options some of them felt like they would be hard to crochet in a way that made them recognizable as what they were supposed to be, especially in the small size that I make my mini amigurumi. I ended up landing on a chicken drumstick because it seemed like a shape that could be both easily recreated in crochet form, and also easily recognizable as what it is supposed to be.
Once I decided on a drumstick I still kind of went back and forth a little bit on what exactly I wanted it to look like. A lot of the crocheted versions I had seen had the bone sticking out the bottom, but that isn't necessarily what I first picture when I think of a chicken drumstick so I was on the fence about whether I wanted to make the whole thing brown or have a bone on the end. I ended up going with the bone because I felt like that helped make it more identifiable and broke up the brown a little bit.
Since I decided to make it with the bone I ended up making it in 2 separate pieces that are sewn together. The bone actually inserts into the top section and is sewn in place.
I used a light brown for the chicken part, this is actually the first color that I have used that is not Red Heart Super Saver, instead I used Big Twist Value in the color Camel. I felt like it was the perfect light brown color for the chicken. For the bone I wanted a cream color so I used Red Heart Super Saver in Aran.
We are now done with the first week of the Summer Cookout Crochet Along. Just a reminder that there is no new pattern tomorrow (Sunday), but the last week will start on Monday 6/22/26, so come back Monday for pattern number 7 for the start of the second half of the Summer Cookout.
How to Crochet a Little Drumstick
Finished Size: about 4" tall
You will need:
- medium weight yarn in light brown, and cream (sample made in Big Twist Value in Camel, and Red Heart Super Saver in Aran)
- G crochet hook (4/4.25 mm)
- 2- 6 mm safety eyes
- Polyfil fiberfill
- yarn needle
- stitch markers
- scissors
- black embroidery floss and needle
Instructions:
The drumstick is made in 2 pieces, the meat, and the bone. Both are made starting with a magic ring. The can uses stitches worked in the back loop only (blo) to create the shape.
Bone
Make 1 with cream yarn, beginning with magic ring (You will make 2 nubs, then with yarn still attached to the second you will join the first to make one piece)
Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: 1 sc in each st (6 sc)
Make 1 of rounds 1 and 2, cut yarn and set aside, make another and do not cut yarn, with the second piece still attached continue on to round 3
Round 3: sc2tog, attach the first piece that you made by working sc2tog in that piece, sc2tog 2 times to work in all stitches of second piece, then sc2tog 2 more times in the first piece to finish working in all of the sts in that piece (6 sc)
Rounds 4-6: 1 sc in each st (6 sc)
Finish off, and weave in end
Meat
Make 1 with brown yarn, beginning with magic ring
Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)
Round 2: 2 sc in each st (12 sc)
Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (18 sc)
Round 4: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (24 sc)
Rounds 5-8: 1 sc in each st (24 sc)
Round 9: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next 6 sts] repeat around (21 sc)
Round 10: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next 5 sts] repeat around (18 sc)
Insert eyes between rounds 7-8 with 2-3 sts between them, stitch smile below eyes
Begin stuffing and continue stuffing as you work
Round 11: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next 4 sts] repeat around (15 sc)
Round 12: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next 3 sts] repeat around (12 sc)
Round 13: [sc2tog, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (9 sc)
Round 14: 1 sc in each st (9 sc)
Finish off and cut yarn, leaving a long tail for sewing
Insert the bone into the opening and stitch in place
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