Easter Bunny Amigurumi

Easter is less than a month away, with this, it means Spring is approaching in some countries. Craft Passion’s periodic contributor Lee Mei Li of AmiguruMEI designed an Easter Bunny Amigurumi and named her Ichigo-chan, to welcome and celebrate the Easter with all of you. Feel free to crochet it to add into your Easter decorations, get more Easter crafts here.

Ichigo-chan is a sweet little pink bunny (Ichigo means Strawberry in Japanese) who gets excited and loves to squint her eye when she smile for photography. She loves everything that is in candy color including candy sours. Easter is her favorite festive of the year because she can eat lots of Easter candy sours that she found during the Easter Eggs hunt. She is known to charm the hearts off any honey-bunny she meets.

Happy Easter and enjoy your Easter Egg hunting with the bunny!!!

Easter Bunny Amigurumi: Ichigo-chan

Contributed by: Lee Mei Li of AmiguruMEI
Skill level: Easy
Duration: About 4 hours

Abbreviations
• Ch: chain
• Sc: single crochet
• Dc: double crochet
• Inv dec: invisible decrease

Materials
• 3mm hook
• Acrylic yarn in light pink, bright pink and cyan
• Embroidery floss in fuchsia and dark brown
• Darning needle
• Polyester fiberfill

Head
With light pink yarn:
Round 1: Sc 6 in magic ring {6}.
Round 2: [Inc] around {12}.
Round 3: [Inc, sc 1] around {18}.
Round 4: [Inc, sc 2] around {24}.
Round 5: [Inc, sc 3] around {30}.
Round 6: [Inc, sc 4] around {36}.
Round 7: [Inc, sc 5] around {42}.
Round 8: [Inc, sc 6] around {48}.
Round 9-15: Sc around {48}.
Round 16: [Inv dec, sc 6] around {42}.
Round 17: [Inv dec, sc 5] around {36}.
Round 18: [Inv dec, sc 4] around {30}.
Round 19: [Inv dec, sc 3] around {24}.
Round 20: [Inv dec, sc 2] around {18}.
Stuff.
Round 21: [Inv dec, sc 1] around {12}.
Round 22: [Inv dec] around {6}.
Fasten off and weave in ends.

Body
With light pink yarn:
Round 1: Sc 6 in magic ring {6}.
Round 2: [Inc] around {12}.
Round 3: [Inc, sc 1] around {18}.
Round 4: [Inc, sc 2] around {24}.
Round 5: [Inc, sc 3] around {30}.
Round 6-10: Sc around {30}.
Round 11: [Inv dec, sc 3] around {24}.
Fasten off and leave a long end for sewing.

Ears
Make 2 with light pink yarn:
Round 1: Sc 6 in magic ring {6}.
Round 2: [Inc] around {12}.
Round 3-8: Sc around {12}.
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.
Stuff.

Arms
Make 2 with light pink yarn:
Round 1: Sc 8 in magic ring {8}.
Round 2-5: Sc around {8}.
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Feet
Make 2 with light pink yarn:
Round 1: Sc 5 in magic ring {5}.
Round 2: [Inc] around {10}.
Round 3: Sc around {10}.
Round 4: [Inv dec, sc 1] around {5}.
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.
Flatten lightly.

Bow
With light pink yarn:
Round 1: Sc 6 in magic ring {6}.
Round 2: [Inc] around {12}.
Round 3: [Inc, sc 1] around {18}.
Round 4-12: Sc around {18}.
Round 13: [Inv dec, sc 1] around {12}.
Round 14: [Inv dec] around {6}.
Fasten off and weave in ends.
Do not cut off excess yarn.
Leave a long tail and use it to loop over the center of the piece 8 times – your bow should start taking shape now.
With the same tail end, make a backstitch onto a hidden part of the bow in the center to secure the shape in place.
Leave a long end for sewing.

Cheeks
Make 2 with bright pink yarn:
Round 1: Sc 6 in magic ring {6}.
Round 2: [Inc] around {12}.
Fasten off and leave a long end for sewing.

Assembly
1. Sew eyes, nose and lips onto the head.
2. Sew body onto head.
3. Sew on the arms, feet, ears and bow.
4. Sew on the cheeks.
5. Make a small pompom tail and sew onto the back of the body.

With fuchsia embroidery floss, sew on the nose and lips. The nose should fall below Round 13 and made up of 6 backstitches.

With dark brown embroidery floss, sew on a pair of slanted V’s for the eyes.

Pin the rest of the pieces together to gauge where each part should go. Sew them on accordingly.

Shape the round cheek pieces into ovals by lighting pinching the center. Sew them on.

a. Make a small pompom for the tail. Start by winding light pink yarn around three of your fingers.
b. When it becomes nice and thick, trim off excess yarn and remove from fingers.
c. Cut another strand of yarn measuring about 15cm in length. Use it to cinch the centre of the yarn piece. Make a tight double knot.
d. Bring your scissors through the yarn loops and snip through them. Make sure you do not cut off the long yarn strands.
e. What you’ll have now is a messy pompom.
f. Trim pompom to desired tail size and sew onto Ichigo-chan.