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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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  1. Cannot get the Chocolate Bunny Knitting pattern, when you click on the button, it is only the snapshot, and does not go to the pattern. Thank you.

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Knit a Leopard Print Shawl and Learn about Yarn Substitution

When I was looking around for free knitting patterns to share recently, I came across this fun leopard print wrap from Yarnspirations. 

This fun bulky wrap gives you tons of practice with instarsia and makes a bold statement while keeping you warm. It’s rated for intermediate knitters and the design is charted but pretty easy to follow. And it’s only 50 rows and worked in bulky yarn, so it wouldn’t even take that long to knit. (You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.)

So what’s the problem? The yarn that the pattern calls for has been discontinued, and it’s not a yarn that a substitute for immediately springs to mind. 

The original yarn was Patons Alpaca Blend, a single ply bulky yarn that was a combination of acrylic, superwash wool, nylon and alpaca. 

My first thought was Lion Brand Hue + Me, which is an acrylic and wool blend, with two plies instead of a single. It looks like it has the colors you would need to make this fun shawl. 

But as I was thinking about it, I thought this would be a good opportunity to introduce you to YarnSub if you don’t already know about it. This website is a giant database of yarn that can consider the qualities of the yarn you want to substitute and offer potential substitutions. 

It’s not only thinking about yarn weight, like I was, but also fiber content, number of plies, gauge and even the difference in yardage between one ball and another. It even looks at the price and can be filtered by your price range or preferences about fiber content (if, say, you’re sensitive or allergic to wool, for example, or don’t want to you acrylic). 

When I plugged in Alpaca Blend, it gave me a lot of different options, though many of them were self-striping or multicolored, which wouldn’t work for this project, and I don’t see a way to filter for solid colors only. 

Still, it’s a good tool to give you some ideas you might not know about or might have forgotten about, and it tells you how the new yarn is similar to the old one and how it differs, allowing you to make smarter choices when substituting yarns. 

[Photo: Yarnspirations]