Il y a longtemps très longtemps j’avais trouvé sur pinterest un modèle de broche poule 🐔 trop Mimi .
Mais le problème c’est qu’à chaque fois que j’essayais d’aller sur le lien impossible de trouver les explications….
petit problème supplémentaire et non négligeable à cette époque là je ne savais pas tricoter.
Entre temps ma douce belle maman m’avait confectionné un magnifique Gilet modèle de la maison Victor et pour le fermer elle m’avait fait une broche poule !!!!!
Et Oui elle avait été plus douée que moi et elle avait trouvé les explications .
Comme depuis quelques (petites) années je me suis essayée au tricot et que j’aime ça je me suis dit que moi aussi j’allais tenter de confectionner la bébête 😜
Apres un appel au secours à ma belle maman j’étais parée à me lancer.
Alors voici ma première tentative ( et non la dernière ) de Mme Poulette . 
Par contre vius l’avez vu sur le modèle de base le bec et les pattes sont en plastique. Tout comme ma belle maman j’ai préféré les faire au crochet.
Pour le modèle de la poulette voici la marche à suivre ( en anglais mais ça ne devrait pas déranger les adeptes du tricot je pense ) :
This project shows you how to make a brooch with traditional knitting and crochet alongside altered everyday objects. Change the colour to suit your own taste or use the starting point to make a beaked creature of your own design.
What you will need
Materials
● light blue cotton yarn
● white cotton yarn
● kilt pin 10 cm (3.9 in) in length
● feet from an Easter chick toy
● one yellow Rawlplug®
● blue merino felt
● two small blue beads
● cotton thread (same or similar colour to the beads)
Tools and objects
● 2 mm (0.08 in) crochet hook
● 2-3 mm (0.08-0.1 in) knitting needles
● sewing needle (big enough for yarn)
● spray paint for metal in dark blue
● end cutters
● scrap paper or newspaper
Variation
Changing the colour of the yarn can change the character of the bird brooch. Try using a black yarn to make a blackbird brooch or brown and red for a robin. You might like to use different thicknesses of yarns and needles and try using a plain knit or stockinette stitch to create a different surface.
Health & safety
Take care when spraying the kilt pin. Make sure you use the paint in a well-ventilated area and always read the instructions on the can
Step 1 Undo the fastening on a 10 cm (3.9 in) kilt pin. Place on a piece of scrap paper and spray one side with the metal spray paint. Leave to dry and then turn the pin. Spray the other side and leave to dry. Always follow the specific instructions on the spray can as drying times vary and you may also need to apply more than one coat of paint.
Step 2 Take your light blue yarn and your crochet hook. Tie a knot around the bottom section of the kilt pin next to the loop (not the side that will be pinning onto your garment). Make sure you leave a 10 cm (3.9in) piece of yarn to secure later. Ensure that the kilt pin is fastened when you are handling it.
Step 3 Hook the yarn around the pin, making a loop to crochet into. Hook the loop and wrap round the pin, drawing another loop through, until the whole lower section of the pin is covered.
Step 4 Next take your knitting needles and, where the crochet ends, use the yarn to put a slip knot onto the needle.
Step 5 Cast on a stitch by holding the needle with the slip stitch in your left hand and the free needle in your right hand. Insert the right needle through the front to the back of the slip knot. Next take the yarn around the right needle and pull through a stitch and then put the stitch onto the left needle. Repeat this until you have 23 stitches in total.
Step 6 Next, take the right needle again and slip it into the first stitch from the front to the back. Take the yarn around the right needle from back to front and then use the right needle to draw a loop through the stitch and transfer to the right needle. This is a knit stitch.
Step 7 Take the yarn and place it in front of the right needle. Slip the right needle into the next stitch on the left, but at the front this time. Take the yarn and loop it around the right needle from the right to the front. Bring the right needle out, catching the loop of yarn through the stitch. Transfer this onto the right needle. This is a purl stitch.
Step 8 Take the yarn to the back of the right needle and repeat the knit stitch. Continue alternating from knit to purl until all the stitches are on the right needle. Then take the right needle and transfer it to your left hand and stitch another row as before – knit, purl, knit, purl and so on.
Step 9 Continue until your knitting grows in length to 5 cm (1.9 in.). By alternating the stitches you are creating a pattern known as moss stitch. This only works with an odd number of stitches. With an even number the pattern will look very different and is known as rib stitch.
Step 10 Cast off by knitting the first two stitches onto the right needle. Then use the tip of the left needle to hook the first stitch over the second, off the needle. Knit another stitch so you have two on the right. Hook the first over the second again. Continue until you have cast off all the stitches. When you are left with one you can pull the yarn through to knot in place.
Step 11 Cut off a 60 cm (24 in.) length of the yarn. Stitch the loose edge of the knitting around the kilt pin with the shorter length of yarn.
Step 12 Fold the bottom edge of the knitting in half and stitch together. Run the yarn back along where you have stitched.
Step 13 Fill the pocket you have created with blue merino felt and sew along the top to seal the felt inside.
Step 14 Stitch on the feet and Rawlplug® beak with the same yarn. You may need to snip away some of the Rawlplug® with end cutters if you find it too long. Both the feet and beak should stitch into place quite easily. You will be able to poke the beak into the knitting before you secure it with stitches.
Step 15 Last, create the eye by stitching a French knot into either side. Tack the white cotton into place where you want the eye, and twist the yarn around the sewing needle three times. Then pass through near the same hole while holding the length in place with your left thumb, so that it pulls through neatly. Repeat this on the other side and then stitch the two beads into place over the top. Any loose threads or yarns can be stitched in and out of the knitting to secure.
Le modèle en réalité n’est rien de plus qu’un carré plié en deux dans le sens de la diagonale !
Pour la réalisation du bec au crochet:
Faire une chaînette de 4 mailles
Revenir en arrière en faisant trois mailles coulées dans les trois premières mailles.
Une fois au point de départ répéter l’opération. Et voilà le tour est joué vous avez votre bec !
Pour réaliser les pattes au crochet :
Le principe est le même que pour le bec.
On monte une chaînette de 7 mailles on revient en mailles coulées dans les trois suivantes.
Arrivé au point départ ( on a trois mailles coulées à droite et trois mailles à gauche) on recommence pour obtenir la deuxième griffe :
On fait une chaînette de 4 mailles et on revient en arrière en mailles coulées sur les trois mailles.
On revient ainsi au point de départ. À ce stade on a deux griffes à droite et trois mailles à gauche.
On fait la troisième griffe de La même manière en montant trois mailles, on revient en mailles coulées mais cette fois on revient jusqu’au debut de notre ouvrage on coule donc 6 mailles.
Il ne vous reste plus qu’à tout reprendre depuis le début pour former la deuxième patte.
Attention ne coupez pas le fil! Ne fois de retour au point de départ vous recommencez en montant vos 7 mailles.
Voilà jespere que ce petit post vius aura donné envie de tenter l’aventure !
A bientôt
l'atelier de mariposa 