Free Easter Bunny Knitting Pattern

If you are looking for a small Easter bunny knitting pattern that feels sweet, classic, and nicely giftable, this one is worth a look. It is a soft toy-style design knitted in separate pieces, then sewn together, with a pink nose, folded ears, and a little pastel Easter egg to finish it off. The finished bunny is listed at around 12 cm tall, so it sits firmly in that quick seasonal project category.

What gives this pattern its charm is the extra detail. Rather than being a very plain bunny shape, it includes a rounded snout, tiny arms, a tail, folded ears with pink centres, and a knitted egg held between the paws. That gives it a more decorative, storybook sort of look, which makes it easy to imagine tucked into an Easter basket or sitting on a spring display shelf.

The pattern uses DK yarn in several colours, including white for the bunny, pink for the nose and ear detail, and contrast shades for the Easter egg, along with 3.25 mm needles, stuffing, and a sewing needle. It is one of those patterns that would also be handy for using up leftover yarn, especially if there are a few small balls hanging around from other projects.

Construction-wise, this is the kind of pattern that would suit knitters who do not mind assembling separate pieces. The body and head, arms, snout, tail, and ears are all worked individually and sewn together at the end, so it has more of a traditional toy-making feel than an all-in-one quick knit. CraftBits also notes simple shaping and secure assembly, and suggests embroidered facial features as the safest option if the toy is intended for a child.

This looks like a good fit for confident beginners or intermediate knitters, especially anyone who enjoys small toy patterns, Easter makes, or projects that can be personalised with colour. The pastel egg detail is especially cute because it gives plenty of room to change up the look with lilac, mint, lemon, or baby blue.

There’s a lot to like about the Eloise Bandana from Katryn Seeburger. This cute little colorwork triangle can be worked as a bandana or kerchief size or a bigger shawlette.

It’s worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn so you can use whatever yarn you have in your stash and just make it as big as you can (since it is worked from the bottom up).

You can see the two sizes from the photo, and also two colorwork options: strawberries and lily of the valley.

But that’s not all the choices you have. In fact, there are 34 different charts you can choose from to knit onto your project. Some of the options include happy faces, a lobster, a pumpkin, a snail and a butterfly. There are cherries, peaches, tomatoes and radishes.

There’s even a blank square you can use to draw your own little design if you want to use something else. Or keep it blank and make it a plain checkerboard design.

And while both of these shawls use the same icons throughout, you could also use different designs throughout if you want. Say a fall version with a bat, pumpkin, leaf and acorn, or a summer beach theme with sailboat, fish, lobster and a bird? I keep suggesting four different icons because the larger size has four rows of squares, but the smaller has three, so you could do stripes of the same icon or alternate a couple of different ones, whatever you like.

Look through the finished projects on the Ravelry project page to see lots of different options, from rows to individual icons. There are also some projects that are smaller than the suggested size to make a smaller bandana. You could also keep going a make a bigger shawl working increases in the same way as you have been going.

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Katryn Seeburger]

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