Growing up one of five children, I learned plenty about creativity and resourcefulness from my mother; she was a stay-at-home mom who was always cooking up something in an effort to save our family a buck, stretch a dollar and make something out of nothing so that we always had everything we needed. For Easter one year, she took a crochet pattern that appeared in Woman’s Day magazine on March 27, 1978 and not only made all of the children in our family unique Easter basket gifts, she crocheted and sold hundreds of these Easter chicks and eggs, custom made to-order!
My mom’s cleverness served our family well then and the lessons I learned from her craftiness and cleverness remain with me today. When I shared this photo of the crocheted chicks inside eggs on my Facebook page, there was an immediate demand for the pattern, but I figured folks were out of luck- who saves these things for over 30 years? Imagine my shock when my mother called to say she had actually saved the original crochet pattern! Please feel free to download the pattern and make some memories for the little ones in your life, courtesy of Grandma Chicken Chick. ♥
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Growing up one of five children, I learned plenty about creativity and resourcefulness from my mother; she was a stay-at-home mom who was always cooking up something in an effort to save our family a buck, stretch a dollar and make something out of nothing so that we always had everything we needed. For Easter one year, she took a crochet pattern that appeared in Woman’s Day magazine on March 27, 1978 and not only made all of the children in our family unique Easter basket gifts, she crocheted and sold hundreds of these Easter chicks and eggs, custom made to-order!
My mom’s cleverness served our family well then and the lessons I learned from her craftiness and cleverness remain with me today. When I shared this photo of the crocheted chicks inside eggs on my Facebook page, there was an immediate demand for the pattern, but I figured folks were out of luck- who saves these things for over 30 years? Imagine my shock when my mother called to say she had actually saved the original crochet pattern! Please feel free to download the pattern and make some memories for the little ones in your life, courtesy of Grandma Chicken Chick. ♥
My great grandmother made us these chick in easter eggs when we were kids, before 1978. I had mie forever and even made a couple a few years ago when my son was a toddler. I wanted to make some again and was googling and came across this page. How delightful.
Oh my goodness! This is the exact pattern I used so many years ago. Unlike your mom, I must have thrown mine away. My mom actually has one of the “chicks in the egg” that I made and offered it to me to try and replicate the pattern. This is so much better. As soon as I saw the picture, I recognized it as the one I lost. Thank you.
Like Teresa, I am getting the message that this file has been deleted from Scibd. Could you repost this pattern please?
This is the link to the pattern: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8zcsfLhBUxMT0wtR1ZBS3F0Rk0/view
The pdf with crochet instructions says it has been deleted. Is there another way I can get this for my Mother-In-Law? She used to make these when her children were little and would be thrilled to have the pattern again!
Can you try again? I just clicked on the pdf and it opened just fine for me.
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