Duckibert

It’s that time of year again – Easter is on its way! And in PipsRainbow terms, that means a little addition to the Egglebert Family! May I present to you Duckibert. He is a very happy go lucky kind of a duck and is definitely one of the most laid back part of the Egglebert Family. He seems to just be floating through life, having fun, with no real worries to. He tends to hang out with Lambibert and is often seen playing games or hide and seek in the garden. You will always have a smile on your face, when you are near him. He has a tendency to do impressions of others, which as you can imagine, can sometimes get him into trouble. The little pickle.

Right, so let’s get down to business. The pattern. As with all of the Easter Egglebert Patterns, the body is the same, it’s just the extra individual features that are different.

Level – Easy (A great pattern to start with, when you are learning to crochet in the round.)

Supplies – You only need 15g of double knit white yarn, a 3mm crochet hook, a small amount of yellow yarn for the beak, pair of 6mm safety eyes, some scissors and a blunt ended tapestry needle. And don’t forget the toy stuffing. 

Stitches – 

Slip Stitch (ss) – This is where there is no height to the stitch. It’s usually used to join rounds. So insert the hook into the front of the stitch you are joining to. This is usually the first stitch you made in that round/row. So yarn over hook and pull through that first stitch then also through the loop on your hook.

Chain stitch (ch) – To make a chain, place the yarn over the hook then pull it through the loop on your hook.

Magic Ring – Fold over the yarn to make the loop. Insert your hook through the loop and grab the working yarn (long piece) and pull through the loop. Hold the tail and the working yarn and pull so that the knot tightens, but you still have a loop. This has created a magic ring.

Double Crochet (dc) – Insert the hook through the stitch, front to back, then yarn over hook and pull back through stitch. You will have two loops on your hook. Then yarn over your hook and pull through both loops.

Double Crochet Decrease (2dctog) – This is where you crochet two stitches together to decrease the amount of stitches in the round. So insert the hook through the front of the first stitch only (the front V) and then insert again through the front of the second stitch (the front V). Now yarn over your hook and pull it back through both stitches, so you will then have 2 loops on your hook. Yarn over your hook again and pull through both loops. And there is your 2dctog. (Basically 2 double crochet stitches crocheted together.)

Ok so here we go… 

Body – Make 1 in white yarn. 

Rnd 1 – Make a mr, 1ch, work 6dc into the ring. Then pull the tail tight. (6)

Rnd 2 – [2dc into each stitch] 6 times. (12)

Rnd 3 – [1dc, 2dc into each stitch] 6 times. (18)

Rnd 4 – [2dc, 2dc into each stitch] 6 times. (24)

Rnd 5 – [3dc, 2dc into each stitch] 6 times. (30) 

Rnds 6 – 8 1dc in each stitch. (30)

Rnd 9 – [4dc, 2dc into each stitch] 6 times. (36)

Rnds 10 – 11 1dc in each stitch. (36)

Rnd 12 – [4dc, dc2tog] 6 times. (30)

Rnd 13 – [8dc, dc2tog] 3 times. (27)

Rnd 14 – [7dc, dc2tog] 3 times. (24)

Rnd 15 – [6dc, dc2tog] 3 times. (21) 

Rnd 16 – [5dc, dc2tog] 3 times. (18) 

Rnd 17 – 1dc in each stitch. (18) 

This is a good time to stuff your body and attach the safety eyes. Make sure you align them properly, before you attach the backs. 

Rnd 18 – [4dc, dc2tog] 3 times. (15) 

Rnd 19 – 1dc in each stitch. (15) 

Rnd 20 – [3dc, dc2tog] 3 times. (12) 

Rnd 21 – [2dc, dc2tog] 3 times. (9) 

Rnd 22 – 1dc in each stitch. (9) 

Now ss into next stitch and sew up the hole and fasten off. Don’t forget to sew in your end. 

Wings – Make 2 in white yarn.

Rnd 1 – Make a mr, 1ch, then work 6dc into the ring, then pull the tail tight. (6)

Rnd 2 – [2dc into each stitch] 6 times. (12)

Rnd 3 – 1dc in each stitch. (12)

Rnd 4 – [1dc, 2dtog] 4 times. (8)

Rnd 5 – 6 Work 1dc in each stitch. (8)

Rnd 7 – [2dc, 2dctog] 2 times. (6)

Then ss into next stitch and fasten off, leaving a tail. Use this tail to sew the wings onto the body on either side, making sure they are aligned with each other. 

Beak – Make 1 using your yellow yarn.

Rnd 1 – Make a slip knot and chain 6, then Ss into the first chain to create a ring.

Rnd 2 – Work 1dc into each chain in the ring. (6)

Rnd 3 – Work 1dc in each stitch. (6)

Rnd 4 – [1dc, 2dctog] 2 times. (4)

Ss into next stitch, then sew up the 4 remaining stitches and fasten off, leaving a tail to sew the beak onto the body.(4)

Sew your beak on to the middle of the body, just under your eyes and fasten off.

Hair – Use your white yarn

Attach your yarn with a slip stitch, by inserting your hook through one of the top stitches and pull through. You can make a little slip knot here to pull through which will make it even more secure. Now make a chain stitch. Then *chain 5. 

Then join this chain of stitches with a slip stitch into another stitch. Repeat ** this process till you have as much hair as you would like. When you have enough hair just simply slip stitch into the nearest stitch and the cut your yarn and pull through the tail and fasten off. Sew in yarn ends. 

And there you have a little Duckibert.

Now, as with all my patterns, they are all here for you to enjoy. And in exchange for these patterns, I would be very grateful if you could give, however little, a donation to our chosen charity Child Bereavement UK. This is an incredible Charity, that was been close to our hearts for a few years now. I cannot imagine how important the work they do is to the families that help. So if you can, however small, donate to the charity, in exchange for my pattern, then I would be so grateful. Thank you. Here’s the link to the Just Giving Page

I really hope you like this pattern. Don’t forget to share all your creations and tag me in. If you have any questions or queries, just give us a shout. 

If you would like to make all of the Egglebert Family, then please find the attached patterns for all 4 in the Easter Pattern category. And I’ve added Mr & Mr Egg in their too

Happy Hooking.

🌈Xx

(Don’t forget that this pattern is brought to you from PipsRainbow, it has not been tech edited, but all attempts have been made to ensure it is correct and easy to follow. It is only to be used for personnel use only and not to be shared or used to create items for profit. Thank you.)

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Waiting Rooms

Well hello my lovely ones. How are we all? It’s a cold, wet and grim day here. Definitely a day that you need to stay in as much as possible. I’ve just managed a yoga class. I haven’t been in ages, so you can imagine that it definitely woke up some of my joints!! I have a funny feeling they won’t be happy later. Ouch! Oh well. Definitely important to keep the old dodgy joints ticking over. That’s always my excuse for crocheting and knitting so much – it keeps my hands warm and working!! Haha!!

How is everyone’s yarny projects going? I seem to have quite a lot of WIP’s at the minute. But really trying to finish some of them, so that I only have a few on the go at the same time. It’s definitely not a problem to have a few different ones on the go. I like to keep small, easy projects, that I can take with me for every eventuality. This is usually a pair of knitted socks. It’s so small, that it can fit in your pocket. So always have a pair on the go. Another slightly bigger project that goes with me, is my Around the World Cowl from the gorgeous yarn club from For the Love of Yarn. https://fortheloveofyarn.co.uk/

It’s 4ply yarn again and it’s at the beginning stages, so definitely one to fit in my bag on trips out. It’s coming along nicely and I hope to share the pattern soon.

I had one of those magical moments with it yesterday. It was actually the first time this has ever happened to me, which is a shame, but I am hoping it won’t be the last. I went to the hospital for my regular bloods and it was absolutely rammed. It’s usually only a waiting space of one corridor, but this stretched out to 3 corridors and 2 waiting rooms. Must remember, Monday is not a good day to go!! I did get a seat, so got myself comfy for a long wait with my Around the World Cowl happily being worked on my lap. But then there was an old couple that couldn’t sit together, so I jumped up to offer my seat. (As any normal human being would do!) But then as I roamed the corridors in hope of another seat, there she was. This lovely lady crocheting a blue flower blanket for one of her daughters! Well, the speed in which I sat down and started chatting, may have come across as a little alarming, but hey, I was a little bit excited and realised I wasn’t a crazy lady as soon as I got my crocheting out! In all my time of waiting rooms, I have never seen or sat by anyone crocheting! I am usually the one that gets the slightly funny looks or the questions as to what are you making. And how their gran used to crochet and they never learnt. So we wallowed away nearly an hour of yarny chatting before it was her turn to go in. It was so lovely. Her name was Ann and she’d been knitting for years, but learnt to crochet recently and even taught a couple of her friends too! She did put me to shame though. I had only got my small ball of wool with me and if I had been waiting much longer, I would have run out of crocheting. (Ekk, a shiver just ran down my spine!! Imagine that!) The lady on the other hand, had 3 other little balls of wool in her bag on the off chance that she might run out!! I felt very unprepared, which doesn’t come naturally to me. So in true Ann style, I think I may need to check myself in future and ensure that when you are out and about crocheting or knitting and definitely in a waiting room on a Monday, that – YOU DON’T RUN OUT OF WOOL!!

On other news, I have been having a little go on my sewing machine. I bought a box of canvas offcuts from Nu at Hide and Hammer. https://hideandhammer.co.uk/ She pops them on her website every so often, as she never throws anything away, it’s a great idea for others to use it. As some of you have seen I made these little pouches last week.

The iced bag one has been great attached to my drinks bottle for the gym. It houses my AirPod case and car keys. And phone too, if I’m not using it.

The mustard oil skin has housed my little The Yarn Badger Advent sock set that I am working on at the moment.

So I reckoning I could definitely make a few more. My son wants some for his lego and bits for when we go out. So that will be a little project. I am hoping to make myself a little knitted needle roll, which I have in the past made for my Mum. But I think my one might have to wait. Too many things to do. Too little time to do it! We shall see. I have invested in a little leather foot for my machine is great.

It’s so easy to go around corners and a great way to sew very near to an edge. Would highly recommend getting one for your own machine if you can. I bet you could use it for all sorts of things.

Well on that note I had better say my fair wells. I will be posting up the new Around the World Cowl pattern up for anyone that would like to make one. It’s a 5 stitch repeat, worked up in a circle. I am using 5 different colours each month from the Around the World Club from Lisa at For the Love of Yarn, but you can use any colour combo that you like.

I also have a little Easter crochet project coming out too! It’s another one of my Egglebert family! So hope you like the new addiction!

Anyways. Hope everyone has great days.
Happy hooking!
🌈 Xx

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