28 March 2013

Stash-Buster Challenge - Bunny Hat


When I mentioned my plan for stash-busting for March I mentioned that I would inevitable have some unexpected projects pop up. This would be one of those projects. Although, it wasn't entirely unexpected. Baby girl is 3 months old, so I needed to get some adorable 3 month pictures. In knew I would want to crochet some sort of photo prop, I just didn't know what it would be. With her 3 month birthday being so close to Easter I decided to get into the spirit of things and make her a bunny hat for her pictures.  I've decided to share my pattern with you. As always, I really have no idea what I am doing when it comes to writing down patterns so I hope it makes a little bit of sense when you try it out. If only you could see what was going on in my mind, then I'd know you could understand it for sure.

I used about 1.6 oz (45g) or yarn for this project.

Crochet Bunny Hat
Supplies:
H hook
worsted weigh yarn in white and in pink,
White Pipe Cleaners
Special stitches:
HDC2tog: Yarn over, insert hook in next stitch, yarn over and pull up loop] 2 times, yarn over and draw through all loops on hook— 1 stitch decreased.
Instructions:
Hat:Work in rounds. DO NOT TURN.
Round 1 Chain 3. In 3rd chain from hook work 8HDC OR make a magic ring and work 8HDC in ring and pull tight
Round 2 2 HDC in each HDC 16 stitches
Round 3 [1 HDC in next stitch, 2 HDC in next stitch] around, 24 stitches.
Round 4 [1 HDC in next 2 stitches, 2 HDC in next stitch] around, 32 stitches
Round 5 [1 HDC in next 3 stitches, 2 HDC in next stitch] around, 40 stitches
Round 6 [1 HDC in next 4 stitches, 2 HDC in next stitch] around, 48 stitches
Rounds 7 and up HDC in HDC until hat is desired length. Then to finish off sc in next 2 hdc and slip stitch in next sc. Fasten off.
Ears:
make 4 (2 white and 2 pink)
Row 1: make 3 foundation half double crochets OR chain 4 HDC in second chain from hook and next 2 chains. Chain 2, turn.
Row 2: HDC in each stitch, chain 2, turn.
Row 3: HDC in first stitch, 2HDC in next stitch, hdc in last stitch, chain 2, turn.:
Row 4: HDC in each stitch
Row 5: HDC in first stitch, 2HDC in next stitch, HDC in next 2 stitches, chain 2, turn
Rows 6-7: HDC in each stitch, chain 2, turn
Row 8: HDC in first 2 stitches, 2HDC in next stitch, HDC in next 2 stitches, chain 2, turn
Rows 9-11: HDC in each stitch, chain 2, turn
Row 12: Work one HDC2tog in first 2 stitches. HDC in next 2 stitches. Work one HDC2tog in last 2 stitches, chain 2, turn
Row 13: Work one HDC2tog in first 2 stitches.  Work one HDC2tog in last 2 stitches chain 2, turn
Row 14: Work one HDC2tog in next 2 stitches. Fasten off.

Take one white ear piece and one pink ear piece and fasten layers together  by SC evenly along the edges (work 3 SC in point of ear pieces and in bottom corners of ear pieces). To make the ears stiff work the SCs around the white pipe cleaners. Sew ears onto hat.



4 comments:

  1. Ooohhhh!!! this is so cute! Thanks for sharing the pattern :-)

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  2. Saw your post on Happy-Go-Lucky Shine on Friday. Love that sweet bunny hat. Pinning! My post is #203. Happy Easter!

    Reecea

    http://freshjuniper.blogspot.com

    P.S. I am getting a TON of spam comments too. Been thinking of turning the word verification back on too. Don't blame you a bit!

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I'm sorry, but I've turned word verification on again. I hate trying to decipher the words just as much as anyone, but I'm getting way too much spam. I tried doing comment moderation as people suggested but the number or spam comments I had to sift through was ridiculous. I appreciate your comments and didn't want them to get lost among the spam. Hopefully, I can reduce the amount of spam and turn the word verification off soon.