It's alway a bit hit and miss with these old kits if I still have the magazine they came with, and therefore have the pattern. I gave heaps to the second hand shop a while back.In this case I didn't even look, just did a search and found the magazine on a Russian website. (CrossStitcher issue 298). The picture of the pattern was a bit blurry so it was really hard to follow the backstitching but I suppose that's my punishment for being too lazy to see if the magazine was still running around the house and visiting a website of questionable copyright legitimacy.
I asked my brother which one he thought I should stitch, he said 'the chicken'...
he's 30. sigh.
So I went with the robin (not a chicken). I tweaked it a bit just cos I could.
The body uses three strands of floss, 2 of DMC 436 and 1 of 818 DMC. I figured I had some extra colours might as well use them to add some character and three strands to make the body a bit bulkier / pronounced. This unfortunately resulted in the robin looking a little like a Christmas pudding. Hence the title it was honoured with once finished - "Christmas Pudding Chicken-Robin". Regardless I don't mind the effect.
I also made the eyes more defined and left off the odd white line. I was going to use a French knot if needed but the black eyes looked fine as is.
There are some people out thee who love backstitch, I am not one of them. It took me an extra day to bother finishing it for that reason.
I also didn't turn it into a brooch. The hoop is about 5cm in size and I thought it would look silly as a brooch. Instead I plaited up the leftover floss into a hoop to turn it into a tree ornament. Much better.
Finished:
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