Saturday 23 April 2016

girl bunny

This pattern is very similar to my last bunny pattern (found here), except it's a girl. Again the pattern for the bunny can be found here as it's not my pattern but is designed by the very talented Sharon Ojala.




Difficulty:


Medium

Materials:
  • A 1.5mm crochet hook 
  • Cotton thread weight yarn in white for the bunny plus pink and grey, or whatever other colours you want the clothes to be. The exact brand I used can be bought here
  • 0.5mm thick wire
  • masking tape (optional)
  • A darning needle for sewing up
  • A small button
  • A small amount of black embroidery thread or black cotton thread weight yarn
  • A regular sewing needle (if you'de rather use this for the eyes and nose)
  • Toy stuffing
  • A 5mm popper (or 3 if you want to do up the back of the dress as well)






For the bunny:
Make the dress me bunny by following this link above using a 1.5mm hook and cotton thread weight yarn. Insert a piece of wire inside the ears if you want to keep them standing up. You can see how I did this for my last bunny here. If you wish to make the cardigan you might want to not attach the arms just yet so that you can get them in the right position.

For the dress:
Make the spring time dress that can be found here in pink, using the same hook and weight yarn as you used for the bunny. If you want to do up the back with poppers add one 5mm one at the top and one at the bottom of the back edge.

For the converse:
These are exactly the same as The one's I made for the boy bunny, but in pink
With white make a magic loop with 6 sc
Round 1: 2sc in each st (12sc)
Round 2: sc in the first st, 2sc in the next st, rep to end (18sc)
Round 3: sc in the first 2 sts, 2sc in the next st, rep to end (24sc)
Round 4: sc in the first 3 sts, 2sc in the next st, rep to end (30sc)
Rounds 5 - 6: (2 rounds) sc in each st (30sc)
Row 7: sc in the back loops of the first 4 sts, turn (4sc)
Row 8: sk the first st, 2sc in the next 3 sts, sc into the front loop only of the next 2 sts, turn (8sc)
Row 9: sk the first st, then sc into the first st, 2sc into the next st, rep 3 times, sc into the back loop of the next st.  
Fasten off

Row 10: Join the yarn of the colour of the converse to the beginning of row 9, sc into the next 8 sts. ch1, turn (9sc)

Rows 11 - 12: (2 rows) sc in each st. ch1, turn (9sc)
Row 14: sc2tog, sc in the next 5 sts, sc2tog. ch1, turn (7sc)
Fasten off

Row 10: Rejoin the yarn with a ss into the second spoke from the left at the bottom of the white section. ss into the next st. sc2tog, sc in the next 2 sts, to the last 2 sts, sc2tog, ss into the first 2 spokes of the white section (17sts)

Rows 11 - 14: (3 rows) sc in each st. ch1, turn (17sc)
Row 15: sc2tog, sc to last 2 sts, sc2tog (15sc)
Row 16: sc in each st, ch1, turn (15sc)
Row 17: sc2tog, sc to last 2 sts, sc2tog (13sc)
Fasten off

Cut a length of white yarn and use it to lace up the shoes through the holes in the crochet.


For the star (make 2):

With white yarn make a magic loop with 6sc
Join with a ss and fasten off. Using 2 strands of black embroidery thread embroider a star onto it, and then sew this hole thing onto one side of the shoe. When you make the other one sew ot onto the opposite side of the other shoe. 



For the scarf:
With grey sc5
Row 1: sc in the 2nd st from hook, sc to end. ch1, turn (5sc)
Rows 2 - 4: (3 rows) sc in each st. ch1, turn (4sc)
Row 5: sc to last st, sc into the last st until you have 2 loops on your hook. Change to pink yarn and complete the stitch. ch1, turn (4st)
Rows 6 - 9: (4 rows) sc in each st. ch1, turn (4sc)
Row 10: sc to last st, sc into the last st until you have 2 loops on your hook. Change to grey yarn and complete the stitch. ch1, turn (4st)
Repeat the last 5 rows 11 times, but change to pink yarn if you are currently working with grey yarn. This should mean that you have 13 alternating blocks of colours, each 5 rows long.


For the cardigan:
fsc 44. ch1, turn
Rows 1 - 6: (6 rows) sc in each st. ch1, turn (44sc)
Row 7: sc in the first 20 sts, sc2tog, sc in the next st, sc2tog, sc in the last 19sts. ch1, turn (42sc)
Row 8: sc in the first 18 sts, sc2tog, sc in the next st, sc2tog, sc in the last 19sts. ch1, turn (40sc)
Row 9: sc in the first 18 sts, sc2tog, sc in the next st, sc2tog, sc in the last 17sts. ch1, turn (38sc)
Rows 10 - 12: sc in each st. ch1, turn (38sc)
Row 13: sc5, ch 8, sc into the 9st st from base of chain, sc in the next 11 st, ch8, sc in the 9th st from base of chain, sc in the last 4 sts.Turn (38sts)
Row 14: ss into the first 5 sts and the next 8 ch sts, sc in the next 12 sts, ss to end. (38sts)
Faasten off

For the sleeves (Make 2):
ch18, ss into the 1st ch, ch1
Round 1: sc in each st around (18sc)
Rounds 2 - 11: (10 rounds) sc in each st (18sc)
Row 12: sc in the first 8 sts. ch1, turn (8sc)
Row 13: ss in the first st, sc in the next 6 sts. ch1, turn (6sc)
Row 14: ss in the first st, sc in the next 4 sts.
Next ss 17 around the edge of the sleeve and fasten off.

Sew the sleeves onto the main body of the cardigan then sew the popper onto the top of the front edge to fasten it.

Finally sew the arms onto the bunny if you haven't already, making sure that they're in the right position to fit into the armholes of the cardigan.

And that's all! I hope that you enjoyed this pattern. Don't forget that you can post any of your creations on my facebook page. Happy crocheting!


3 comments:

  1. Maybe I am too new to hooking but what are "poppers"?

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    1. I think poppers is probably the wrong name for them - they are usually called snap fasteners :)

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