I found it on Pinterest back in October and thought it was the CUTEST thing ever. However, when I read the pattern instructions it scared the hell out of me. It might as well have been in Chinese. So, I taught myself via YouTube channels and friends how to knit.
My most recent adventure was finally taking the leap from scarves to knitting a toy on straight needles. I found this adorable knit bunny pattern (thank you Pinterest!) and it seemed easy enough for me to make.
Introducing... Sir Hops Alot!
And Blue Bunny!
I used this tutorial to make Sir Hops Alot and Blue Bunny. I used a long pair of size 4 straight needles to make Sir Hops Alot, but that ended up hurting my wrist. So, my Blue Bunny was knit on size 8 circular needles which made it a lot easier. Highly recommend that (although, I don't recommend buying circular needles with 36" cables. The cables get twisted and it frustrated the crap out of me. Newbie mistake!)
To make the ears, I followed the instructions in the tutorial for decreasing and increasing the stitches, but I used this video as a guideline to make it a different color on each side.
I didn't like how she did the normal ears. It looked too... ehh. I really wanted to add some flare to it. Another project I'm working on had me whipstitch another knit swatch to the ears to give it two tones, but I thought was still phfft. Tried to make it a little "me" I guess. Plus the faceless bunny look was going to give me nightmares so I added some eyes, nose, and some whiskers.
Also, the same blog posted a new tutorial on an easier bunny... but I haven't made that yet. It's cute, but I like mine more.
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