How to knit a bunny rabbit – free pattern and step by step tutorial

How to knit a bunny rabbit – free pattern and step by step tutorial. I fell in love instantly when I first came across Claire Garland’s Dot Pebbles knitting patterns. She has created a menagerie of knitted bunnies, mice, foxes, baby deer and other animals that really do tug at your heart strings. Claire somehow manages to capture the essential beauty and vulnerability of baby animals in her knitting.

If you’re looking for a craft project to do over the Easter holidays, I have just the thing! Claire has kindly shared her pattern to knit an Easter bunny with all the details you need to make one yourself. Or make a whole family of them and fill your home with adorable knitted Easter loveliness!

Download your FREE Easter Bunny knitting pattern

To download your FREE Easter Bunny knitting pattern with full details of how to knit your own Easter Bunny, click here >> Easter Bunny Knitting Pattern PDF

Simple to make, and probably the cutest baby bunny pattern out there, why not have a go yourself? I’d love to see how you get on.

Step by step images

This usefully marked image shows you how your finished knitted piece should look before you start sewing it up

Using the marker pins will help you line up before sewing together

5 essential tips from Claire

1 Don’t overstuff

Definitely my number one tip – don’t over stuff! If you look at real bunnies they are quite loose-fleshy so try and emulate this with your stuffing – especially around the neck and chin and belly areas.

2 Take time to mould the face

Play around with the face squishing. By that I mean use you fingers to indent the eyes, finding that correct bunny face look, before working the stitches that will create the eventual ‘face squish’. Then add in your eyes.

3 Experiment with different yarn

I’ve just bought some hand-dyed yarn which has specks of brown within it which I can’t wait to try out with some mohair. Note: I love knitting with mohair but it’s not a suitable material for babies under one year old.

4 Consider ‘felting’ your bunny

If you wanted ‘extra’ fluffiness and you’ve used pure wool or alpaca – or maybe cashmere – why not slightly ‘felt’ your bunny? To do this: when the bunny is completed wash it in warm water with a tiny amount of liquid soap. Gently rub and agitate the toy by hand before rinsing out completely and rolling in a towel to remove excess water. Re-shape and sculpt then leave to dry away from direct heat.

5 Make bunny bespoke

If you wanted to embroider some distinct markings on your (knitted) bunny then you could work some ‘duplicate stitch’, i.e. embroidering the ‘v’ shape to mirror the already knitted stitch in patches over the body or face.

Follow #IMadeThisRabbit for inspiration

And finally, when you are finished, or if you want more inspiration – then follow along with my hashtag #IMadeThisRabbit on @dotpebbles_knits Instagram or my facebook page with the same hashtag name.

thanks to @funkyfibres and @lillinthemoon for these two lovely images saved to the hashtag.

INFORMATION

Dot Pebbles is listed in the From Britain with Love directory here >>

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Where to buy Dot Pebbles patterns

Claire sells a range of her knitting patterns 0n Ravelry and Etsy including these adorable bunnies:

You can also buy Claire’s Wild Rabbit pattern and knitting kit from her Etsy shop here

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