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Chocolate Bunny Knitting Pattern

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This Free Chocolate Bunny Knitting Pattern is a fun little Easter knit for anyone who likes seasonal projects with a bit of personality. It has the look of one of those classic chocolate bunnies you see at Easter time, but in knitted form, which makes it feel a little quirky and a lot more giftable.

The pattern starts with a garter stitch base and then builds shape by picking up stitches and working in the round. That gives the bunny more dimension than a flatter decoration and makes it feel more like a proper soft toy or display piece.

It looks like the sort of project that would suit knitters who are happy with basic shaping and don’t mind paying a little attention as they go. Nothing about it feels wildly complicated, but it does have enough happening to keep it interesting.

A pattern like this would work well for Easter decorating, handmade basket fillers, or just using up some brown yarn in a more creative way than another dishcloth. And of course, if chocolate brown is not your thing, it would be easy enough to imagine this bunny in softer bunny shades too.

All up, this is a sweet seasonal knitting pattern with a playful idea behind it and a finished look that would fit nicely into Easter crafting.

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Play with Texture and Embroidery in this Intarsia Knit Shawl

This is a project that kind of stopped me in my tracks when I saw it while scrolling Ravelry. It’s such a fun contrast of a semisolid color worked in stockinette stitch and a more tonal yarn worked in a feather and fan variation. 

(See more about feather and fan in this post on my blog; I also have a feather and fan scarf if you want to practice.)

The Nitty Wrap from Renate Dziedataja is worked in fingering weight yarn from a Finnish mill, and the name is the Finnish word for meadow. You of course can use whatever yarn you have handy.

It’s even more interesting because the project is worked from one short end across to make a long rectangle, and the two different sections are joined using intarsia. Generally we think of intarsia as being used for colorwork, so this is a fun different use of it. The lace section is charted in the pattern but it’s pretty easy to follow. 

And of course it’s totally optional but to add a little more interest and tie the two colors of yarn together the designer also added some embroidery along the short edges on the stockinette side. A drawing of what she did is included but you can also add different designs if you’d rather. 

The shawl has I-cord edgings to give it a nice finished look that doesn’t take away from the organic simplicity of the design. 

As shown, the shawl measures about 22.5 inches/57 cm wide and 59 inches/150 cm long. You can of course adjust this according to your preference, the amount of yarn you have and the gauge you are getting. Try a thicker yarn to make a wider shawl if you like. 

This pattern is available in English and Latvian for free on Ravelry. 

Photo: Renate Dziedataja