Hello folks and welcome to the month of the year that I loathe the most – November! I’m sorry for all the people who might actually like November, or were born in this month (happy birthday!), but personally, I find nothing good about this month. Where I am, it’s just cold, rainy and stormy all the damn time, the days get shorter and shorter and it’s just got nothing going for it. So, to brighten up this most gloomy of months, I decided to make a happy little rain bunny! He is very simple to make, VERY similar to my October bunny (in fact I mostly copied the pattern like a lazy but smart little crafter) and I am sure he will bring you as much delight as he brings to me. So let’s hop into the pattern!
Pattern
Materials
To make the rainy day bunny you will need:
– A 2.5mm crochet hook
– Yarns in your colors of choice (I used grey for the bunny, yellow for the coat, light brown, pink and light green for the umbrella)
– A tapestry needle and scissors
– Stuffing
– Safety eyes
– Pipe cleaner and wire for the umbrella handle
– A stitch marker to help you keep track of the start of the round
Please note that you can make the rainy day bunny using any size crochet hook and yarn weight for a smaller or bigger result. I like using DK as it’s most commonly available. If you make amigurumi, it is usually recommended to go down a bit from the recommended hook size for the yarn to allow for a no-hole look (we don’t want to see the stuffing show through in between stitches)! Using DK yarn and a 2.5mm crochet hook, the bunny should be about 20cm tall.
Stitches & Abbreviations
The pattern is written using US crochet terms in continuous spirals. You will need to know the following kinds of stitches to make him:
– Magic Ring (MR)
– Chaining
– Single crochet (sc)
– Half double crochet (hdc)
– Double crochet (dc)
– Treble crochet (tc)
– Picot stitch
– Decrease (dec); preferably using the invisible decrease method
– Increase (inc)
And now, let’s get started!
Head (in grey)
Round 1: In a MR, sc 6
Round 2: Inc around (12)
Round 3: (Sc, inc) around (18)
Round 4: (Sc 2, inc) around (24)
Round 5: Sc 2, (inc, sc) x3, sc 6, (inc, sc) x3, sc 4 (30)
Round 6: Sc 3, (inc, sc 2) x3, sc 6, (inc, sc 2) x3, sc 3 (36) (this will help make the face more oval and less round)
Round 7-14 (8 rounds): Sc around (36)
Round 15: Sc 7, (dec, sc 2) x3, sc 6, (dec, sc 2) x2, dec, sc (30)
Round 16: Sc 7, (dec, sc) x3, sc 6, (dec, sc) x2, dec (24), place eyes between rounds 11 and 12, approx.. 7 stitches apart (make sure you place them on the wider side of the face) and start stuffing
Round 17: (Sc 2, dec) around (18)
Round 18: (Sc, dec) around (12)
Round 19: Dec around (6), fasten off and sew closed
Feet (in grey; make 2)
Round 1: In a MR, sc 6
Round 2: Inc around (12)
Round 3-5 (3 rounds): Sc around (12)
Fasten off. Make a 2nd one but do not fasten off this one! We will join them together to form the
Body
Round 6: Sc 6, ch 2, sc 12 on the first leg you made, sc 2 into the back of the chain 2 from earlier this round, sc 6 on the 2nd leg (28)
Round 7-12 (6 rounds): Sc around (28)
Round 13: Sc, dec 2, sc 9, dec 2, sc 10 (24)
Round 14: Sc around (24)
Round 15: (Sc 2, dec) around (18), stuff
Round 16-17: Sc around (18)
Round 18: (Sc, dec) aroun (12), fasten off
Ears (in grey; make 2)
Round 1: In a MR, sc 6
Round 2: (Sc, inc) around (9)
Round 3: (Sc 2, inc) around (12)
Round 4-12 (9 rounds): Sc around (12), fasten off
Arms (in grey; make 2)
Round 1: In a MR, sc 6
Round 2: (Sc, inc) around (9)
Round 3-10 (8 rounds): Sc around (9), fasten off and stuff
NOTE: To make the bunny hold the umbrella to the side, I made the 2nd arm 2 rounds longer. If you want to recreate this pose, I highly recommend you do this as well!
Tail (in grey)
Round 1: In a MR, sc 6
Round 2: (Sc, inc) around (9)
Round 3: Sc around (9)
Round 4: (Sc, dec) around (6), fasten off
Coat (in yellow)
Row 1: Ch 18, sc 17 (17)
Row 2: Sc 3, ch 6, skip 2, sc 7, ch 6, skip 2, sc 3 (25)
Row 3-4: Sc across (25)
Row 5: Sc 5, inc, sc 3, inc, sc 5, inc, sc 3, inc, sc 5 (29)
Row 6: Sc 14, inc, sc 15 (30)
Row 7-9 (3 rows): Sc across (30)
Row 10: Sc 13, ch 4, skip 3, sc 14 (31)
Row 11: Sc across (31), fasten off
To make the sleeves, insert your hook into any stitch of one of the arm holes and create 10 single crochets, going into the backside of the chains from round 2/3, the unworked stitches from round 2, and the in-between-gaps. For the shorter arm, I did 8 rounds total of 10 sc each, for the longer arm I did 10.
Hood
Round 1: In a MR, sc 6
Round 2: Inc around (12)
Round 3: (Sc, inc) around (18)
Round 4: (Sc 2, inc) around (24)
Round 5-7 (3 rounds): Sc around (24)
Round 8: (Sc 2, dec) around (18)
Round 9: Sc 10, ch, turn, skip the first stitch, sc 8, fasten off
Umbrella handle (in light brown)
Round 1: In a MR, sc 6
Round 2-36 (35 rounds): Sc around (6), fasten off and insert wire and pipe cleaner. You want this to be VERY stable.
Note that you could crochet this flat and sew it closed instead.
Umbrella
Note: I did rounds 1, 7 and the final round in green
Round 1: In a MR, sc 6
Round 2: Inc around (12)
Round 3: (Sc, inc) around (18)
Round 4: (Sc 2, inc) around (24)
Round 5: (Sc 3, inc) around (30)
Round 6: (Sc 4, inc) around (36)
Round 7: (Sc 5, inc) around (42)
Round 8: (Sc 6, inc) around (48)
Round 9-14 (6 rounds): Sc around (48)
Round 15: (Sc 15, inc) around (51)
Round 16: Sc around (51)
Round 17: (Sc 16, inc) around (54)
Round 18: (Sc 2, hdc, (dc, picot, tc, dc in one stitch), hdc, sc 2, sl 2) around, sl to first stitch at the end and fasten off
Assembly
To assemble our cute little bunny, sew the head to the body first, making sure the wider side is facing front/back. Fold the ears together at the bottom and sew them to the head. Sew on the arms and then the tail. Sew the hood to the back of the coat, then put on the coat (you might need to pull and stretch the arms a bit to get them through the sleeves). Sew the umbrella handle to the umbrella, then sew the handle to the arms. Done!
And that’s it! Enjoy your new little friend! You may post pictures of your rainy day bunny online as well as sell amigurumi made from this pattern, but I ask that you credit me as the creator of this pattern. Please do not redistribute the pattern.
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Rina Mogryna Art 