A local journalist recently published an awesome article about my local yarn store, Uncommon Threads Yarn in Los Altos. Angela Swartz was struck by the vibrancy and joy at our local knit night and posted several really cute photos of yarn store staff and us yarn enthusiasts sitting around the table laughing and cheering each other on.
But the most iconic photo she took, I think, is the one where Debbie is hugging the emotional support chicken. Knitting emotional support chickens has become a huge phenomenon and there are fantastic news articles and pictures of them everywhere! The video below is my absolute favorite:
The emotional support chicken that Debbie is holding is a design by Annette Corsino of The Knitting Tree yarn store in Los Angeles. You can find a link to her pattern here which has sold at least 11,000 copies on Ravelry. She offers patterns for crocheting and knitting the adult chicken as well as a baby chicken and some adorable accessories:
Crafting chickens to destress has become so popular recently that Stephanie, for Local Yarn Store Day at Uncommon Threads Yarn offered a free afternoon crochet class in order to make these adorable little guys:
The pattern to make these is called the Granny Square Chicken by sweet softies and you can find the link for them here: [https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/granny-square-chicken]
These chickens are pretty small but a fellow crafter, Maddy, made a huge one with a really big crochet hook and thick yarn that is now a comfort pillow for her brother. CBS News New York had a whole episode about the Emotional Support Chicken craze, which you can watch here:
Now that my husband has watched this show, he is insisting on an emotional support chicken of his own, so watch this space! I think I’m going to cast one on today. In the meantime, if anyone wants to read more about this fun topic, check out this cool post:
My students’ finals week has just ended so I was able to grab a moment to make this post. For those of my readers who have been following me for a while, I think I’m pretty much over my second bout of long COVID so I may actually have enough energy in future to keep up with this blog again. But regardless, I just had to share these awesome links with you in the hopes you will gain as much enjoyment from them as I have!