I came across the most incredible blog the other day. Gardienne, who made the happy snails and slugs I posted here a little while ago, has been documenting the adventures of a pair of knitted chicken legs that came from the Which Came First pattern. In her first post, she says, “a pair of chicken legs stitched into my life and demanded attention.”

So far, we’ve seen the Chicken Legs make friends with Gardienne’s cats, attend a hockey tournament, and enjoy a cup of coffee.

I love this blog! The chicken legs are so silly, but it also seems almost perfectly normal that they would get up and walk around on their own. Why shouldn’t they have their own blog? I’m now a regular reader, so here’s hoping Gardienne keeps it up!

Update: CRAFT magazine just featured the Chicken Legs blog on the CRAFT blog! How cool is that? These are some famous chicken legs!

Alice at Kathryn Ivy just made the cuutest Butterfull!

She modified the pattern by picking up stitches for the legs and using an embroidered chain stitch on the wings. Oh, and she added a sweet little mouth!

Alice mentioned in her post that there’s one part of the pattern that mistakenly mentions felting, though no felting is actually required. Oops! That’s since been corrected—I’m hoping it’s a minor enough point that it doesn’t trip anyone up.

This is one butterfly that I would love to catch in a net and take home!

Here’s another gorgeous snail, by Milkyrobot.

Not a word I usually apply to snails, but—lovely!

For round two of our competition, the gloves are coming off and it’s pure snail-to-slug combat!

We seem to have a clear winner this time. The snail is absolutely flattening that slug! Looks like he’s down for the count.

Our earthworm referee makes the call.

The ring is made up of one of those cardboard planters you get at a garden center, filled with potting soil. The polls are dandelions.

Next up: the eating contest! But first, I’ll post the free pattern for the snails and slugs here. Soon, I promise!