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How to Crochet an Easter Bunny (pattern tutorial)
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Mar 17, 2025
These crochet bunny faces measure 12" high and work up quickly (make it in a weekend) With just a few tweaks you can make it come alive with face indents and cute ear accents so they stand out in Easter Baskets, on your mantle or holiday table decor. Website post pattern: https://livechilllife.com/crochet-and-knit/easy-egg-shaped-easter-bunny-face-free-crochet-pattern/ Ad free PDF: https://livechilllife.etsy.com/listing/1870993900/crochet-easter-bunny-head-pattern-easter Invisible decrease video: https://youtu.be/WJfhbL6x3JI Subscribe to the newsletter for monthly discounts, tips and free patterns: https://livechilllife.com/ My books and project trackers :https://livechilllife.com/shop-my-books/ My vintage recipe cooking channel: https://www.youtube.com/@100yearoldrecipes My Etsy shop: https://livechilllife.etsy.com and https://www.etsy.com/shop/TinyCottageKitchen Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/people/Live-Chill-Life/61559059162110/
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in this video I'm going to show you how to make these cute egg bunny faces I
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have a special Stitch that mimics fur just a little bit more than regular yarn
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wood and without the bother of having to use Chenille yarn where it's difficult to see the stitches let's get started
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[Music]
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right to get started with a head going to do a magic circle I'll show you how I
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do mine bring your yarn over to the left and the egg head will
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be done with a 4mm hook and then the 5mm is for the
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ears and also for this uh demonstration color also one of the finished items
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this is Hobby Lobby I love this yarn and this is the color Glacier this is kind of a mint bluish kind of somewhere in
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between that color I don't know how it looks on screen all right so I'm bringing up my yarn pinching down let me
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do this again since I was running my mouth okay bring the the tail over to
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the left pinch and then bring up your
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yarn just to secure this does not count as a stitch okay that's just attaching
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it and you want to make sure that both the tail and the circle
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are uh enclosed when you do that attaching and I'm just going to hold it
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I'm going to loosen or tighten it a little bit so I'm just going to work four single
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crochet making sure that I work over both those strands
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one two
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three and four and you pull
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together the edges and then now I'm going to increase
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to eight stitches so I'll go into that first Stitch I
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made we're still going to do single crochet this point we're not going to switch to the textured Stitch just
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yet pull [Music] through just one single crochet another
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one in that same Stitch two next
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Stitch increase
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again next Stitch increase again
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and then the last Stitch increase so now you'll have eight
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stitches now from here you can decide what you want to use as your stitch marker because the first rounds of
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course they're so short you're going to be um moving it frequently so I would
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recommend using a strand of yarn just drop it
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there and again we're going to work that same increase still staying with single
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crochet so we'll be working two stitches into each Stitch again increasing from
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eight stitches to 16
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stitches so two in this Stitch two in the next and so on so I'll meet you back at the
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end of this
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round all right so now for round four we're going to start working
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the slip half double crochet stitch and that's going to give that pretty texture that this has and it says to evenly
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space your increases and decreases when you're working working the egg head and
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so they do not overlap and as I start working more I'll show you what I mean by that so the body
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Stitch is a special half double crochet of modification so I'm going to yarn over I moved
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my uh stitch marker go into that first
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Stitch pull up a loop slip that first Loop then yarn over
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and finish the Stitch let's do it again in the next
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Stitch and I'm going to work an increase here so I pull up a
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loop slip the first Loop yarn over finish the Stitch and I'll put a
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second one so this will be my first increase of this round pull
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up slip yarn over pull through two there's
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one increase work a couple more before doing my next
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increase
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one two and now I'll work an increase in this
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Stitch for
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do another increase here so that's my third increase stitch
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out
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there and as you're working this you'll probably quickly realize this part
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facing you this is the part that's going to be facing outward so you'll turn it at some point cu the other side doesn't
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look the same which is often the case when you're working in the
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round one more Stitch and then I'll do my final
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increase and I'll do my last increase
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so now as I come to the end of the round I will have 20 stitches and the increases for this is
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not a typical where you have evenly spaced um
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increments of increases because this is very much a shaped
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project and it's not a typical egg shape you might find
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elsewhere it's very specific for this bunny okay so now 20 stitches and on to the
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next round right so for the next round it says again to increase by four just like
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we did to go from 16 to 20 stitches so we're going to keep working
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the same Stitch now your increases should occur
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in different places is otherwise the shape it's going to
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look off you don't want to for instance the last one I increased at the third
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Stitch I'm going to increase at the first Stitch this time so I call it the clock method where maybe one round you
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use the 1:00 3:00 7:00 10:00 placement for your stitches and
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then the next round you do you know 6:00 10:00 2:00 5:00
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just so that they're not stacked on top of each other where you have your increases so I did my first increase
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I'll work a few around do my next
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increase right so just keep following the increases most of the rounds just have two increases but some have four
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and then I will come back and show you how to work the invisible decrease because it's
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done it's not the typical invisible decrease method it's just made to work
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with this particular Stitch so that we don't lose any of this beautiful texture when working the decrease
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rounds so you'll be turning it like this this will be the outside
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right so for the bunny ear we need to attach and I have these
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uh decorative buttons in here this one isn't attached yet this one is I just wanted to show these to you these are of
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course optional there's so many cute little flower buttons that you can find
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or you can get really creative if you want to put maybe little bows in there
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um you know it's up to you you can get really fun with these depending on
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your taste so this is what the finished ear will look like and you'll notice this is
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just a regular single crochet so it's not that textured Stitch that the uh egg
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bunny has and then we've got a flat Edge at the bottom where we stop so that that
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can get attached onto the body and it's going to have a little bit of a pinch to
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give it a fold before attaching it and then you'll want to leave a tail
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to do the stitching this one's about 18 in long so for this to keep the
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Stitch size somewhat in line with the body we're going to go up to the 5 mm so
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change out from the 4 mm that you're using for the body and we'll do 5 mm
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now and I'm using the same yarn this is the glacier Hobby Lobby acrylic yarn
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beautiful color I'm going to make a magic
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ring and put four single crochet into it so like I made the first one we can do
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this again bring the yarn to the left
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pinch and then secure with a stitch does not count as a stitch that's just to
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lock it in place and I'm going to pull it close just a little bit it's only going to have four stitches and I don't
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want it flopping all over the place while I create them so four single
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crochet and then I will increase it to eight by working two single crochet into
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each
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Stitch there's two in the first Stitch two in the next and so on
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seven and here is eight right so at this point to keep
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track of my rounds just like I was doing with the bunny head going to throw a
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piece of yarn over to March March to mark my Stitch and now I'm going to
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increase stitch 12 I'll do two in the first I'm going to
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increase for every other Stitch and so on so you can follow along
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with the pattern this is more of a standard um increase for the shape than
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the bunny head bunny head's different just to accommodate that
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pretty Stitch here to the
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next right so I'm going to keep working my bunny ear and I will link my uh
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tutorial for invisible decreases this is going to have standard single crochet invisible decreases when you get
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to uh let's see round 15 you'll do the invisible decrease
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so very simple
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ear and then here for the um video I'll also link it up in the cards and uh in the
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description just depending if you're following from the PDF pattern or from the
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website be easy to find so I have my bunny ears done with a
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very long tail for uh stitching in and now I want to kind of start putting the
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face together so the body of course is stopped part of the way just so that you can work work in the face detail so the
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kind of greenish blue minty bunny is going to look a little bit different than the yellow one I want them to have
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each their own personality so this one has pink glitter eyes and I'm going up one size bigger
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for my um this one I just want to see how it looks I'm not going to lock them
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in yet until I put in the cute little nose and
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whiskers so I have a whole video on these eyes and other little Notions you
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can get from Amazon but with this one how the eyes
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work is take this off here
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you can use just white on the the white background or these are prep punched and
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or the W it's supposed to be we find one that is I have a whole punch if it's not
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my eyes see how that looks drastically different okay and then the uh I'm going
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to use white yarn to kind of build up the little cheeky area around the nose
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so let me get that thread all right so I have my little cheek insertion so what
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I'm going to do is start stitching out this way to build up the cheek area
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and my insertion point is the same as it is on the other one so that part will be the same you do yours however you like
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of course all right so I'm going to do slightly [Music]
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closer here and then flare out just a little bit on the other side so I've
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double threaded with the yarn so I'm doing there's two strands coming through
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at once for some fullness
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and I'll just keep starting from the center point and going
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outwards and then with this kind of a half double crochet you have a little
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more leeway with where you can work your stitches let me show you what I
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mean you without splitting the yarn so you can either
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go here or or here instead of just here and here so you've got a little bit
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more uh room to play with
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my arm looks a little twisted I don't like
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that there we go right now I'm just stitching in some
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eyelashes and I'm using a gray yarn for that kind of a
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medium
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gray when I was I don't know I think 12 I had a chinchilla coated bunny and she
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had these beautiful dark black eyelashes I thought she was just the prettiest rabbit I had
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ever seen I'm a bunny fanatic I collect
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bunnies so Easter's my favorite holiday I think because of that they're easy to
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find in the stores I can add to my collection
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oops all right I'll be back I hooked into the back area down here so it's
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going to be hard to stuff it I have to pull that Stitch out all right I got the eyelash sorted
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out now I'm going to come down and use that same gray thread and it's a long strand so it's traveled from here to
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here and I'm just going to start kind of sculpting in the outline of the little
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nose going to move this so that it is on top of the white there because when I do
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the indent all this is going to puff up
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and then for this one the yellow one has pink whiskers I'm going to have this one half the gray
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whiskers for
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all right so I've got my face kind of set how I want it I haven't locked my eyes in
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yet I want to talk about the ears so the ears have a very long tail it says in
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the instructions and that is for stitching them onto the head but before that happens get my tapestry needle out
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let me show you they have a little bit of a pinch to them to give some some
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shape and depth and of course I added the little um button
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Decor the Little Flower but that's optional you can do whatever you would like all right so they're going to be
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stitched kind of at an angle like this to the side and then after stuffing I'm
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going to put a security Stitch to kind of keep them up straight because they're not they're going to want to flop all
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over the place all right so let me move this a little bit where
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my Center will be okay and then just kind of bring in a pinch here
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and close that pinch or secure the pinch the
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shaping which honestly don't even have to do but I like the extra depth it
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gives BR the pinch put a stitch through there and my little button will hide
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that come out on this side not through the back just through the side so that can get
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hidden when we do the
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stitching just pull it through really snug I'm going to flatten this
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out and let me get a smaller tapestry needle here this one felt a little snug
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going through those stitches
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I'm going to just start stitching it oops where am I going down into the head
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at a slant so that the flat end lines up with the
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head pull that snug
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again and if you want to add a little stuffing now to kind of get your bearings and see where it's going to sit
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how it's going to look or you'd like it this is the time to do that and then you
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see in this one I've got stitching just all the way around it's secure in
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place and then you can't see it I've got an invisible kind of a
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tension Stitch that secures the last Stitch from the base to the other one
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and then tighten it up just so that they stay upright
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even though they're stitched on in a
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slant right now I'm at a point where I want to show you how to work decreases to maintain the look of this
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Stitch so it's going to be a modification of a typical single crochet
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two together so you pull up a loop in your first Stitch go into the next Stitch
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pull up a loop then like you've been doing with these stitches for the egg head part you're going to slip the first
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Stitch then yarn over and finish your Stitch so you can see that it looks
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still looks very similar I've already worked some um and you can see that it
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looks Flawless like I've just worked this Stitch the whole way around so let's do another one I'll pull this out
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later let me get you comfortable with working this go into the first Stitch
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pull up a loop go into the second Stitch pull up a loop slip the first
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Loop yarn over finish the
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Stitch so that's how you work your decreases all right so finished working
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the rest of the body or the egg head whatever however you want to call it and
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so I've got my eight stitches here at the bottom where I've reduced down to
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and I'll just seam it up kind of like how you seam up PS so I'll just kind
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of work through back and forth just kind of cinching it together
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and then um we're going to start working on the face detail to get it have just a
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little more Dimension and
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personality close it up and then kind of shape
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it I weave that in I want to now move on to kind of um making
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this puffed out a little bit because the rabbits have that distinctive uh I don't think snout it's
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the right word but you know what I mean and then all of this will kind of get adjusted around once I get that done so
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to do that you can also do this with the eyes if you want to indent them a little bit CU rabbits do kind of have beady
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eyes I'm not going to do that if I were going to do that I would put them further apart otherwise they're going to
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get almost like this and with eyes that are looking
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straightforward you know they have um uh the eyes that kind of are looking
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to the side I think that would work better for indenting cuz you know for Easter
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Bunnies we want kind cheerful looking faces on our animals
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all right so I'm going to use a tapestry needle for this and I
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need a long enough tail or rather a strand that will be able to fit this
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way because I'm going to hide it inside so it needs to have some length I'm cutting about this is about 2 feet that
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I've cut here all right so I'm going to come in down here
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and then come out on the other side of the little call it the cheek the front
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whisker area okay and one end you saw it just came through the other end here so want
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to make sure it's long enough back here then come up one
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row go behind my little whisker area
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again and come out same one row above where this one is
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see it looks a little higher because this is a modified half double crochet so it's a little bit bigger than a
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single crochet pull okay come back through where that
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initial entry point was and come out at that same initial entry point
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and you see already if I pull this way you see it's starting to come out a little bit giving him a little more
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personality pull snug and go in again at that second entry point just above and
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come out or I did
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before pull again
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Just Adjust this a
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bit okay I'm going to knot this
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securely really snug
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another knot and a third
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time these two lengths are the same and I will thread them again onto
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my tapestry needle actually I'm going use a bigger one for
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this a bigger
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eye make sure they're even and then go back in
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there and push through the back side
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see how we're [Music] looking once it's through I'll just cut
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it so that it's flush and it will hide on the inside of my Benny face right so
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we also need to get these ears to be upright otherwise it looks I think it
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looks a little bit like a dog when ears are like this but we need to get these um ears to be standing up very straight
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and close together okay since they stitched this way they're going to be wanting to flare
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outward and that's not good all right so we're going to do
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something similar to what was done to get the snout to why I keep calling a bunny snout well
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to get this to be pronounced okay so again a long strand
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and this I do from the back so find kind of where they're up against the head
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straight come in back there just go
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behind just at the edge so that it looks invisible close to the Head
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leaving a tail then go
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back the next stitch
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up again the next stitch up
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through P tight see how we're
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looking okay looks
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good and I'll go back in where I went in the first
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time come back
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now your head's going to look kind of pointy once you do this and something you could do is put a bow up there but
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I'm just going to kind of Pat it down into place or you can leave it if you don't
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mind that but it will do that as you're bringing the ears together but you see
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how much better it looks when the ears are straight up right and then again do the
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noding we want a really strong knot up here
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triple
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knot I'm going pull it through the opposite and trim it so that it's just
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straight against the head and a noshow
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