This was an 'emergency' project. I needed a hat for my bunny costume for Bunny Jam and for a bunny-prank on some Goths.
I cast on 44 stitches in some indestructible acrylic yarn on #13 needles. The first four rows are seed stitch (so it doesn't roll). Then I knit straight for a couple rows, then did the 'decorative eyelet' thing (simple k2tog, yo) thing where the pipe cleaner whiskers are poking through. Then knit plain for a few rounds.
I thought about knitting ears but time was short & Walgreen's bunny ears were available so I just used the Walgreen's ears, instead. I bound off four stitches for the hole. The next round, I increased four so that I had the same number of stitches before & after the hole.
After knitting another couple rounds, I started the decrease. It's a simple knit 5, k2tog, k5, k2tog. Next round, I k4, k2tog, k4 k2tog, etc. I did the decreases every round because I wanted an abrupt decrease. The hat was already pretty long & I wanted the attention on the ears, not the gently sloping decrease.
Add googley eyes (Beverly's Crafts) & an acrylic pom pom (Pearl's craft store), stick the bunny ears through the holes & that's it: a bunny hat.
That's me wearing the hat (I'm the one on the left). We wore the bunny suits on a bunny crawl through the Mission where some nice man bought the bunnies tequilla shots (two rounds!). We were fuzzy bunnies after that. People get out of the way when they see a herd of bunnies hopping down the street.
2004.04
I cast on 44 stitches in some indestructible acrylic yarn on #13 needles. The first four rows are seed stitch (so it doesn't roll). Then I knit straight for a couple rows, then did the 'decorative eyelet' thing (simple k2tog, yo) thing where the pipe cleaner whiskers are poking through. Then knit plain for a few rounds.
I thought about knitting ears but time was short & Walgreen's bunny ears were available so I just used the Walgreen's ears, instead. I bound off four stitches for the hole. The next round, I increased four so that I had the same number of stitches before & after the hole.
After knitting another couple rounds, I started the decrease. It's a simple knit 5, k2tog, k5, k2tog. Next round, I k4, k2tog, k4 k2tog, etc. I did the decreases every round because I wanted an abrupt decrease. The hat was already pretty long & I wanted the attention on the ears, not the gently sloping decrease.
Add googley eyes (Beverly's Crafts) & an acrylic pom pom (Pearl's craft store), stick the bunny ears through the holes & that's it: a bunny hat.
That's me wearing the hat (I'm the one on the left). We wore the bunny suits on a bunny crawl through the Mission where some nice man bought the bunnies tequilla shots (two rounds!). We were fuzzy bunnies after that. People get out of the way when they see a herd of bunnies hopping down the street.
2004.04
