The Emotional Support Chicken 🐓 || Knitting Podcast
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- In today’s episode I’m sharing my thoughts on the EMOTIONAL SUPPORT CHICKEN! 🐔
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What color are you wearing? Love the shirt but I typically hate all cotton shirts because they are so stiff. Also, I LOVE LOVE LOVE your glasses. Do you know the brand and/or the style name/number? They are fantastic.
I knit the Emotional Support Chicken for my 18 mo old grandson for this past Christmas. His parents have chickens that he loves to chase around the yard. He puts the knitted chicken in his little wagon and pulls him around his house.
That is adorable, I bet he love’s his children
Yes
That’s the best. Hen Solo! That’s my vote.
My Aunt recently passed and my cousin sent me a lot of her yarn stash. I’m making my aunt’s whole family emotional support chickens from her yarn stash. My cousin and I are having so much fun planning this. 🐓🐓🐓
❤how perfect. Your aunt would love it. My condolences to you.
What a lovely gift for your aunt’s family- a lovely legacy. I made my granddaughter a sweater set using the pattern my mother made every baby in her life, with yarn from my mother-in-law’s stash that I inherited. Lots of sentiment knit by her nana- I love this kind of way to honour those we love.
What a lovely idea
As a retired lawyer, I particularly enjoy your
“for the record “
comments 😊 ⚖️
I’ve done two so far.. MotherClucker and Eggatha Christie.
I had a beautiful border collie/ labrador cross who I named Wagitha Christy, because her nose was always somewhere it didnt belong 😂❤
I finished my chicken today and my 2 yo nephew promptly took it! 😂
I think he gave you the best compliment. A+ 😂
I bought the pattern and made one. I don’t know about the actual emotional support either, but I just want to sit and hold it. I couldn’t bring myself to give it to my grandson so I’m making one of his own.
OK, so, I've had the Emotional Support Chicken on my Rav Queue for a while and I blame you for making me pause this video, hoping in the car, driving to Michael's, and buying yarn to finally make this project 😂 Also ... "Pouring forth from my creative loins..." 🙌I don't think the creative process has ever been put into words so accurately and poetically!
Oooo yes! So glad you’re going to knit an ESC Kristin! You’re going to love it. I can’t wait to see your color palette! (And I can be real poetic and flowery when I need to be. 😉)
I’ve made 4 emotional support chickens and I have one on my needles. They are Cluck Norris, Gregory Peck, Princess Layer, and Scarlet O’Henra. They are so fun to make.
Cluck Norris is what Jana at Finnish Knitting Stories named her emotional support chicken. She calls her Clucky. Jana was the first person I saw make one. They are so cute. Enjoy yours. This was fun.
I blame Jana for my Hennie, but I also am so happy I made Hennie.
Made my esc- Mother Clucker- about 8 weeks ago. I love her and loved making her🤣
Maybe I'm late on the chicken naming train, but I'm voting for Wool Needles Hen 🐔
Not gonna lie-- I almost didn't click on this video, even though I've never shied away from multiple WiPs. But if I click this, I'm going to have to make one.
Aaaand, here I am, and here you've got another subscriber! This video feels like hanging out and chatting with friends!
Plus, Emotional Support Chicken, YES!! 😂🐔
Aw geez. I love this. Thank you for sticking around. It means a lot. ❤️
This has to be my favorite episode! I never laughed so hard until seeing your emotional chicken. I had no idea it was a thing. I totally lost it when you showed our chicken & said it was "spatchcock". You inspired me to step out of my comfort zone & knit an emotional chicken from my stash. Her name is Cleo-Peck-tra, Queen of the Nest. Thank you for the heart wink❤😊
Wool Needles Hens 😂
Omg. 🥰🥰🥰
Naming them is part of the fun...Hankrietta!
Finnish knitter calls hers "Cluck Norris" which I think is amazingly hilarious!
Omg my telepathy worked! In the random patterns video, the chicken popped up, and I was loudly thinking “ I wanna know more about the chicken!!!” 🐓
And you’re actually knitting it! 😂❤
I love the way the first thing you do when you opened your package was smell it, yes it’s wool. My friend and I when we do yarn shops at our machine knitting club, we both smell to make sure. Love the chicken and yes blue eyes ❤
So cute! Your enthusiasm is so contagious…..like the bird flu!! Ha,ha!
We would allow this emotional support chicken in our office. Believe it or not, one of my partners in our primary care group had a patient who would bring a live chicken with her to her appointments because it was her emotional support animal. That did not go over well with the other patients in the waiting room so we had to insist that she stop but this gal would be welcome anytime.
That chicken is all over my socials, and I keep thinking about it. Specifically, I want to see how small it is if I make a sock weight one. I think I’ve talked myself into it 😂
In the tutorial from the pattern maker, she didn't bother weaving in the ends. She tucked the ends in with the stuffing!
I very much enjoy that I'm watching this as I'm working through the body of my second emotional support chicken. 😂
You need a emotional support chicken in the kitchen for when you have formed an emotional attachment to the onions before cutting them. But now you are crying because the onions are chopped. Thank goodness for the support chicken to dry your tears and help you overcome that the onions are dead. 😂
(Sorry for spelling and grammar errors, english is not my first language)
I love this idea.
The one I knit for my daughter is Eleanor Eggby. Mine will either be Stevie Chicks or Janis Jophen, but I do like Eggatha Christie.
I'm making an Emotional Support Chicken for my sister. She'll love it! But I had to leave it in the coop this weekend (Clucky's a surprise) because she's here today for my birthday. I'm not a Spring chicken anymore. Anyway, I loved your poultry show today. We're all in the emotional support chicken herd with you. Peeps of a feather flock together, ya know.😂 I'll stop now. 🤦🏻♀️
My mother in law used to make pottery chickens. She was pretty serious about it, she would sell them at little artisans markets and she has some all over the house. I think I may need to knit her an emotional support chicken for her birthday.
I have made 6 chickens so far, a few have flown the coop : )
Cluck Norris is the name of Jana's emotional support chicken from Finish Knitting Stories. AKA Clucky.
I am so happy you love that tea! I discovered this tea in 1974. I have been drinking it forever, but I prefer it loose. It also blends well with black tea. Enjoy your tea! I am thinking about knitting the emotional support chicken. I am thrilled that you are not a professional podcaster. I am getting very tired of those. I love podcasts that make me feel like we are sitting across the table from each other, knitting, chatting and sipping tea.
Fun fun fun episode 😂
I love that you mix it up with your humour- cluck cluck 🐓
Emotional support chickens get mini scarfs, wee little blankets and even wee little hot water bottles! ❤I’m obsessed with emotional support chicken 🐔
Well, I'm sitting here next to my Prince & the RevolusHEN (lots of purple), and I blame Kevin and Ray. They were all excited and had to make one, because Chevyrell had made one, and everyone was making one, and you just HAVE to get the kit because it's so cute, and the packaging is just hilarious and adorable, and it never occurred to me to just buy the pattern off of Ravelry and use my own yarn (duh). The kit was very expensive for what you get, the yarn material is not identified (wool? acrylic? Who knows?), the thicknesses of the different yarns are not the same, and I am usually so good at not falling for The Current Thing, how did this happen to me? Not that the chicken isn't cute. It's cute. It has green eyes and lots of purple, and it's cute.
I have one important piece of advice (besides just buying the pattern and using your own yarn): whatever you do, however turned around or mixed up you get (and it won't matter very much because most of it is garter stitch), MAKE SURE YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE WHEN YOU START THE BEAK. If you don't do that, it will be inside out and look stupid. So, mixed review, and I'm feeling a little bit torn (emotionally) from the whole experience, but that's okay because I have an emotional support chicken. 🤨😛
I did the exact same thing, and had to reknit the beak! The youtube video was very helpful, as I bought only the pattern and used scraps.
Taylor! I laughed out loud about the emotional support chicken and went immediately to Ravelry and bought the pattern. I must have it! Thanks so much for showing us. I am sure I have appropriate yarn. So excited! Need some whimsy projects!!
Everything I love about you is on display in this episode.
What I want from a knitting podcast is a friend who's delighting their way through their projects while I do the same on mine.
Please don't ever think you need to be fancier- you are precious "as-is"!
You're more fun than a billion eyeballs...
Thank you so much Melissa. This makes my night. Truly. ❤️❤️
Very entertaining….i love this chicken lol but still navigating Frankie 😂😊
I made a chicken for my mom named Dr. Pecker.
I'm so excited! As soon as I saw the pattern on Ravelry I knew I had to try it. I have not used short rows before, or knit a 3D object. Thanks for sharing the wool stuffing resource, that is a great idea!
never heard of an emotional support chicken but now I really want to knit one. looks like it would be a great learning experience as well! Love this episode!
Hysterical laughter at “spatchcocked”…!!! I know this is an older video of about 3 months ago, but I’m catching up on some of yours that I have missed, and this one got my morning off on a rollicking laugh. Thanks! (Recently new subscriber, from just outside of Seattle, WA.)
“Elizabeth Zimmerhen” please! That gave me such a chuckle I’m checking my stash.
Yep, emotional support chickens ARE the cutest and bestest. They are working up a crochet pattern for it too. I'm so clucking excited.
I jumped on the chicken bandwagon last week. I hate making stuffies, but this one was a breeze and went so fast. Her name is Darcie the Divorce Suupport chicken , for a friend.
The Pike Place tea is delicious, but if you can't source it (I'm in Kansas, Good Earth Sweet and Spicy is a great substitute and available readily at the grocery store)
How about an emotional support chicken tea cosy for your Mom's kitchen?
What about Princess Layer 😂
I wish I could give 50 👍’s. I love a good pun.
Funny you mentioned that...Jana from Finnish Knitting Stories, named hers Kluck Norris. 😹🌸
❤yours is my favorite emotional support chicken I have seen so far. I plan to knit one sometime real soon. Love it!!!❤
How stinkin' CUTE! I noticed it during the pattern roulette episode and thought "The heck?", but it does have a certain adorable, down-home charm. I might want to make a couple now that you've put your 2 cent's worth in! Thanks for sharing!
Oh I loved the Emotional Support Chicken. I did a bit of a Google Search on this and it looks like 'real' chickens can be used and called Emotional Support Chickens. They state: 'Emotional support chickens are basically chickens used to provide comfort and entertainment to anxious, depressed, or lonely people.' so there you go. Fascinating...I had no idea!!
I now have a small flock of three emotional support chickens: Kim KardashiHEN, HENry Styles, and Chickie Ole. The first one was such a fun knit I couldn't stop. Making ones for gifts now.
I totally agree about how fun the ESC is to make. I hate making toys- all those pieces and mine generally end up looking like Frankenstein and scaring small children-lol(just ask my grandchildren)! However, so many podcasters raved about the ESC and the name is cool and they look cute. I followed the you tube video tutorial and knit mine in a weekend and absolutely loved the process and the result. The eyes resolve the how to embroider eyes probes and the face looked good. Mine has green eyes- only colour at our local craft store. I stuffed mine with left over yarn ends that I have collected I over the years, which gives a nice weight and texture, so I agree about wool stuffing being a good choice. Thanks for a fun podcast!
Oh the Emotional Support Chicken is real. My daughter bought one (not knitted) a few years ago. Hers is weighted & so when she has anxiety she lays down with it on her chest.
This is so funny to me. I didn't know what an emotional support chicken was, but my boyfriend and I jokingly refer to you as my emotional support knitter. I look forward to your videos and always feel better after I watch them! ❤
There is a full tutorial by the pattern designer on RUclips that is helpful so anyone can make it. I finished one for a friend for her birthday because she has chickens 🐓 and she loved it.
I spent the last week flirting with the idea of making my own emotional support chicken after having hugged one made out of handspun wool at my local yarn festival. As a beginner spinner, I am waiting for my handcarters to arrive, and I already know what project I'll be spinning for ;)
I have 9 great grandchildren. This video has me ALMOST convinced to start knitting emotional support chickens for Christmas..... ALMOST. You make it seem so much fun. A real break from serious sweaters..
I've been watching @FinnishKnittingStories podcast and she loves her chicken. It's a whole thing.
I really enjoyed this episode. I laughed and laughed with you. Joy in the little daily things!
My friend knit this chicken - she used some beads in a zip lock baggie in the bottom to help stabilize the chicken and prevent it from tipping over. 🐤💕
How to bust your yarn stash - use your random skeins to stuff your ES chicken...
😂 Cluck Norris! 😂
Love your by you called "unprofessional" podcast. It show you are real. I prefer it as all the perfect set up artificial podcasts. ❤❤❤
I've been wanting to knit the chicken for weeks now but was a bit intimidated, so this podcast was very on time for me! Glad to know it is not as complicated as some have made it seem. I think I will use fingering weight held double because I have so much of it.
The designer has a great you tube video demonstrating how to make it. Very helpful and entertaining. Have fun!
I saw when Needles at the Ready did the chickens and I totally want to make some. But I signed up for both a shawl kal and a 3 week class teaching me how to knit socks, so the chicken will need to wait 😂❤ 🐔
I love those emotional support chickens! I first saw them featured on Needles at the Ready. I ordered a kit from Knit Tree in LA. I haven't finished knitting mine yet, but I just ordered the wool stuffing, so thanks for that link. One vlogger I watch stuffed her support chicken with the yarn ends she has saved for years, which was a LOT.
The univers is telling me I should knit an emotional support chicken!
"Emotional support chicken in the kitchen" really sounds like a kids' book
Omg the ESC names! Some that came to mind: Kylo Hen, Hen Erso, Rey Skyclucker....
I gifted an emotional support chicken to my mother for her birthday and received several requests from family members for their own chickens! So far I’ve made three and am not tired of it yet! Big fan!
Taylor, it would be so funny if the eyes were different sizes and focused in different directions! As if she's been hugged a bit too tightly!
I’m 2/3 finished with my first emotional support chicken in bulky weight scrap yarn. I think it is so cute that I may make one out of several yarn weights (worsted, dk, sport.) I’ve been using knit companion on my iphone and the fact that knit companion gives me multiple counters means I haven’t struggled with keeping track of where I am in the pattern. I’m loving the process. Can’t wait to see my finished poultry. ❤
What size need;es are you using for your yarn?
I’m using US 7 4.5mm needles so it is nice and tight. The only downfall is that the weight of the yarn and the tightness can hurt my hands over time. I started with my wooden knitpicks needles but switched to my chiaogoo metal so the yarn would move easier across the needles. I found the 32” cord is perfect.
Here’s my emotional support chicken. I first saw it on Kevin and Ray’s “Needles at the Ready” podcast. Like you, I thought it was hilarious and fun to make. I gave it to a friend who is experiencing serious health issues. Watching your podcast makes me want to make another one (or two…or three…). (Looks like I can’t share photos on here - sorry.)
I have made 4 emotional support chicken so far and one of them went to an old age home. One of the nurses thought the the residents might like that... I live in a rural community. I am still waiting to hear back. I will have to ask what they call her 😂
Don't stuff it or stuff it lightly, then your Mom could have a dead chicken to put pots on.
I save my left over wool from combing and it makes the best stuffing ever.
I’m on my third one. Love knitting it.
For stuffing, I save all my tiny offcuts and yarn ends in a bag to use for the very rare occasions when I stuff anything. They mount up really quickly and saves vacuuming them up.
Hi. I named my emotional support chicken Molly, after the girl hen in Chicken Run - Dawn of the Nugget. Yana from Finnish Knitting Stories named hers Cluck Norris, Clucky for short.
I remember Molly from the first Chicken Run film. It would be so cute if you dressed your chicken like her with pearls, hat, and a set of small knitting needles! 😊
Saw the emotional support chicken on the Needles at the Ready Podcast. As someone with a living emotional support dog ( I do have the Rx), I see the value, and since I also have physical issues that my dog helps with, the pillow would be a perfect addition to my setup for pain when I sleep.
I need to do the crochet version...
Is there one?
@@RepentfollowJesus yeah there is. a few youtubers have done it. i think crafty clegg did
Fun fact, as a flight attendant I actually had a passenger with an emotional support chicken on my plane! The chicken was chill and just sat in their lap, though that and a duck were the strangest emotional support animals I saw working. This was years ago and I'm pretty sure birds are no longer allowed by most airline and some airlines don't allow emotional support animals at all (unfortunate because there are plenty of people who legitimately have a need but many people took advantage of the policy to bring their untrained pets). but it's fun to see this!!
i love my emotional support chickens. i made 2 and if i sit the whole day i can finish it within 2 days. as a beginner knitter it was so easy, any questions just follow the video
Oh my gosh 😂 this is awesome
Not sure what happened to my first comment?!? With a few modifications, the chicken would make a great tea pot cozy.
I'm not much of a stuffy knitter, and I've knit two emotional support chickens, and I want to knit an entire flock. I asked my friends and I was told it was not weird if I send everyone off for clinical rotations (I'm a second year med student) with an emotional support chicken. They take about three days to make for me, and since I don't really stash worsted weight yarn they could become a very expensive habit.
I knit Betty Egg-White for my best friend (I love the names from The Knitting Tree LA), and when she arrived he gave me chicken puns for the other three Golden Girls actresses, so I may need to knit those up and send him his own flock. I think those will need name tags.
You are an evil genius. People forget that med students are actually human. That won't go away. Keep doing human things to remind everyone, including yourself!
@@ginninadances Thank you! We are definitely human, even if it doesn't feel like it sometimes. More than likely I'll pick up the yarn and knit the chickens over the next couple months and then have everyone over for dinner (probably not chicken) and let them pick out a chicken. I start my dedicated boards study in the about a month and a half, so more time to watch videos of review topics and knit chickens.
@@Viennagirl1120 good luck! I know the first ones are the most difficult. (My sister is a physician)
Thank goodness I came upon this, Taylor, because I just started my Emotional Support Chicken this evening and have one half of the tail feathers done. Now that I’ve seen your finished chicken done, I can’t wait until I can get back at it tomorrow! My chicken inspiration started in white like cartoon Foghorn Leghorn by Warner Brothers from my childhood years ago. Thanks for sharing the tea and socks. Will tune in again soon. Becky
Ok, so for me...the "One Where Taylor Talks About Her Emotional Support Chicken" is easily top 10 of my most favorite WNH podcasts! Absolutely loved it! But, yes, once you've stuffed her, Plucky (I've named her for you 🥰) will indeed provide infinite amounts of emotional support. How do I know...well I have a knitted cow named Atiba (purchased, not made) and he does that for me. Also, I've been making the My Pretty Brown Dolls by Yolonda Jordan for years (dozens by now) and immediately after she's been crocheted, stuffed and finished, she magically comes to life and animates in a way that puts tears in my eyes each.and.every.time. You'll see. 🥰 Ok, now...WARNING...Grammar Nerd and Homeschool Mom alert to follow!!!!!! - How you know the pronunciation is Pa-tons is that when broken down into syllables, the /a/ is open, therefore making the long vowel sound /ay/. HTH!
I have seen three so far ( on different podcasts) I think they are adorable! Your colors are perfect with blue eyes!!! I am joining the bandwagon now. Thanks for the fun and sweet podcast!!!
Thank you for such a fun episode! I look forward to all your chats, and love them all, but this one is just what I needed for an early Monday morning. Great way to start the week. ❤️🐔
I love your emotional support chicken!! ❤❤😂
I love chicken too🐓. So much fun to knit and a great place for using yarn worms 🧶🪱
You shouldn't need to weave in any loose ends as they will live inside the chicken. The pattern also recommends including yarn "worms" in the stuffing.
I have used my tiny scraps to stuff small items as well.
I vote Hen Solo ✨ 🐔 Cluck Norris is funny too
I was inspired so I'm knitting a emotional support elephant 😁
When you stuff it, you can hide a small plastic bag filled with some clean pebbles or a few rounded rocks so it will be weighted.
There is a video tutorial on RUclips for the emotional support chicken!
So glad you decided to knit the chicken. I committed to it last night after a rough day at work. A co-worker said "I need an emotional support platypus" to which I responded (quite excitedly) "How about a chicken?" When I showed her the project on Ravelry she was in love. Now I know I have to make it for her. I haven't decided which yarn to use yet, I kind of want a speckled chicken.
I MUST knit this! My 33 hens will love her too.
I really enjoyed your podcast. I have all the yarn to make my chicken...I have started on the tail.