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| chocolate hugging bunnies |
The pattern for this little bunny comes from the blog,
Cherry Heart,
by Sandra. I first heard about these little bunnies from my friend,
Beth. Last year she gave me one and I fell in love with them. The pattern,
Easter Huggie Bunnies, is a free PDF download. You can also find it on Ravelry. They are a quick and easy knit. A great project for using up
those scrap yarns. But of course, I went out and bought a few more fun
colors nonetheless. I used
Lily Sugar n' Cream cotton yarns. I ended up using a size 7 double point rather than the 8 prescribed.
After experimenting, I determined I liked the knitted bunny to fit tighter around the chocolate egg.
Sandra's
bunnies have little faces on them, obviously mine do not. After playing
around with faces for a very LONG time, too long really, I decided that
I didn't like the faces. And I realized,
it is hard to embroider on a knitted piece, very different from embroidering on felted wool like I am used to.
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| finished bunny tails |
But to my delight, a simple addition of a pom pom
tail was just what my bunnies needed to finish them off perfectly! I
made a pom pom using the white cotton yarn. Fluffed the tail up by
swirling it gently between my hands, and then simply tied it to the
bunny. That's all! and isn't it ever cute? FYI, I made all white tails
for all colors of bunnies.
I bought a bunch of
Cadbury Creme Eggs in various flavors: original creme-filled, chocolate creme-filled and caramel creme-filled, and stuffed a total of 16 bunnies!
As
you can see from the photo, I placed my eggs on each dinner plate as a
gift for my guests. I also treated my best girlfriends and my son's
girlfriend as well.
My dream is to make a ton of these
little bunnies and gift them to random people I encounter throughout the
Easter season, a small version of the
random-act-of-kindness-kind-of-thing.
Happy knitting!
