I recently posted about a couple of my older Easter knitting patterns, and I was thinking out loud how it would be fun to make a giant Peep-style bunny out of blanket yarn, following the trend of giant amigurumi.
I happened to have most of a ball of Bernat Blanket yarn left over from another project, so I decided to give it a go.
The result is this Peep bunny knitting pattern that I shared over on Our Daily Craft.
It’s actually a pretty quick and easy project, worked in one piece from the bottom up. You increase to form the base, then do a round of purl stitches to mark the edge of the base. The body is worked straight in stockinette stitch as long as you want, with a little shaping for the head. Then each ear is worked in turn from some of the stitches used on the head. If you need to “seam” anything, it’s that tiny space between the ears.
My absolute favorite part, though, is that I wanted this bunny to stand up on its own, so I wanted to stuff it with things heavier than standard stuffing (though I did use regular stuffing in the ears). So I gathered all this random stuff (so much random stuff) like the tops of old T0shirts I’d used to make yarn, the edges of old cloth napkins I had cut off so I could reuse the rest of the fabric, yarn ends and fabric scraps and just so much stuff.
It was really quite satisfying. Bunny is firm but still huggable, and weighs a whopping 3.5 pounds. It also stands 25 inches tall and is nearly 30 inches around the belly. This would be so fun to make for a little one for Easter, or just to have hanging around your living room during the spring.
