Knit Easter Bunny Patterns

I’ve shared a lot of Easter bunny knitting patterns through the years (including my own giant Peep-style bunny knitting pattern, which I’ve now made three times and is just so much fun) but it’s one of those genres that never seems to exhaust itself; there are always more patterns to share. So let’s get into some more Easter bunny knitting patterns.

Speaking of giant bunnies, let’s kick it off with the Fluffy Bunny from Larissa Koedyker, worked in a jumbo (that’s weight 7) chenille style yarn. The pattern is presented as a video and you can purchase access on Ravelry.

I love a good bunny that looks like an egg (or any spring animal that looks like an egg, if we’re being honest) and the Egg Bunny pattern from Annie Ahn makes it easy to make super cute little bunnies for your table or Easter baskets. They’re shown worked with superfine yarn, but you can use any weight of yarn you have handy to make bunny eggs of different sizes. This is available as a free pattern on Ravelry.

Cover a creme egg with a sweet little bunny with this pattern from Secret Garden England on Etsy. This is a great little stash busting project and you can make a bunch of them to cover eggs in your egg hunt and give the kids a little extra prize. It calls for DK weight yarn.

This bunny in a cabbage is meant to cover a chocolate orange or a bath bomb, but it’s super cute on its own. The pattern is from Etsy seller Whiskers Paws and Claws, and it also calls for DK or light worsted weight yarn. Make this one to go with your projects from the Knitting Peter Rabbit book!

And this one is the best of all of the above, a bunny (or chick) that’s a chocolate orange cover and looks like an egg. Bravo, Bizzy Bee Patterns! Again this one would be so cute just stuffed as decoration if you don’t do chocolate oranges, or you can fill it with smaller goodies. It calls for DK weight yarn and the pattern includes options for making a bunny or a chick.

When I discovered Kate Atherley’s book Circular Knitting for Beginners and Beyond, I wasn’t sure there was enough to say about circular knitting to fill a book. It’s a pretty short book (144 pages) and includes 10 patterns to practice working in the round on small projects, and it provides a decent introduction to the various ways of working in the round.

The book covers using double pointed knitting needles, flexible double points and circular knitting needles with cables. It talks about working using the full circumference of a circular needle and various ways to work smaller circumference projects, such as using DPNs, magic loop and knitting with two circular knitting needles.

In addition there’s a discussion of preventing problems like twists and ladders, swatching in the round without actually swatching in the round, grafting, blocking and weaving in ends.

More specialized techniques likes knitting from the center out, stranded colorwork, helical knitting and jogless stripes are also explored, as well as working pieces like socks or mitts two at a time.

There’s also some information about seamless sweaters, including the different sweater designs that can be worked seamlessly (and why you might want seams in your sweaters) and how they are worked from the top down or the bottom up.

There are 10 patterns in the book, including a basic stockinette stitch cowl and one with a deliberate twist, wrist warmers, mitts and a pair of colorwork mittens, a hat worked in a solid color or in helical stripes, toe up and top down socks and a beret. It would have been nice to have a basic sweater pattern, too, since the book does talk about working larger garments with circular needles, but it’s still a nice collection of basic patterns worked in the round.

If you’re already comfortable working in the round in different ways, I’m not sure there’s much for you to learn in this book, but it is a good reference for people learning circular knitting or who maybe haven’t tried all the techniques yet or need skill building projects to try.

About the book: 144 pages, paperback, 10 patterns. Published 2026 by David & Charles. Suggested retail price $24.99.

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