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This little crochet bunny bag is easy to stitch and makes a cute way to hold a few Easter treats.
Supplies
I used about 75 yards of Mary Maxim Sugar Baby, which has been discontinued, but is a DK weight yarn (Lion Brand Ice Cream might be a fun alternative).
You’ll also need a size F/5/3.75 mm crochet hook, a yarn needle and scissors, and a small amount of black yarn. A stitch marker to mark the end of the round is helpful, too.
Gauge
Gauge isn’t critical but I got about 4 stitches and 5.5 rounds per inch/2.5 cm in single crochet in the round.
Size
My bunny bag is 5 inches/12.7 cm across. The ears are a little more than an inch/2.5 cm wide and about 3 inches/7.62 cm long.
How to Make the Crochet Bunny Bag Base
The bag pieces are worked from the center out. I used a magic circle to start mine but you can also work from a chain if you’d rather.
Make a magic loop and work 5 single crochet stitches into it.
Single crochet 2 in each stitch around; 10 stitches total. If you want to use a stitch marker, add it in here and move it up every round.
Next round, *single crochet 2 in the next stitch, single crochet 1 in the stitch after. Repeat from * around.
*Single crochet 2 in the next stitch, single crochet the next 2 stitches. Repeat from * around.
Continue in this manner, working one more stitch between the increases each round, until you get to single crochet 2, work 12 single crochets around. You will have 70 stitches and your piece should be around 5 inches/12.7 cm across.
You can make these pieces as big or as small as you like, but this felt like a good size to me.
Crocheting the Ears
You can fasten off your crochet bunny bag piece once the face is done and work the ears after both circles are made, but I did the ears for each piece after the circle was done.
When your circle is the desired size, turn the work over and work back over the last 5 stitches.
Turn and continue to single crochet these 5 stitches for 15 rounds (you’ll finish on a wrong/back row).
Single crochet two together, single crochet 1, single crochet 2 together; 3 stitches remain.
Single crochet 1 row.
Single crochet 3 together, cut the yarn and fasten off.
For the second ear, start working on the wrong/back side and make it in the same way on the other side of the head (folding the circle in half can help you see where to put the second ear.
Make a second circle and ears in the same way if you haven’t already.
Finishing the Crochet Bunny Bag
Add facial features to your crochet bunny bag if you want to. I used medium/worsted weight black yarn and made v shapes (this is like doing duplicate stitch in knitting but not exactly following the stitches) for the eyes and nose and made some longer stitches to make a mouth.
Use your yarn tails or additional yarn and a yarn needle to sew the ears of one piece to the other. Then sew the bottoms of the circles together (all the space between the ears) leaving the top of the bag open.
Stick in some little treats. Or some big treats. Have fun with your crochet bunny bag!
