Let’s make this playful, handmade crochet carrot topped with cute bunny ears! You can use any preferred yarn to make yours, but in this tutorial, the materials used are chenille yarn with orange and green shades, black, white, and pink cotton yarn, a 6mm crochet hook, a yarn needle, scissors, fiberfill, and stitch markers.
This tutorial used some advanced embroidery techniques to embroider eyes, eyebrows, cheeks, nose, and mouth, so you need to know some embroidery techniques before starting.
It’s perfect for spring or easter-themed decorations, a sweet gift for bunny lovers, and nursery decorations.
Designer: Emma’s Handcraft
Materials
- Green and orange chenille yarn.
- Black, white and pink cotton yarn.
- 6.00 mm crochet hook
- Yarn needle
- Scissors
- Polyester fiberfill stuffing
- Stitch marker
Abbreviations
Mr – magic ring
sc – single crochet
inc – increase
dec – decrease
st – stitch
(…) – repeat
Carrot
With orange chenille yarn.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in Mr (6)
Rnd 2-3: sc in all sts (6)
Rnd 4: (1 sc, 1 inc) x 3 (9)
Rnd 5-6: sc in all sts (9)
Rnd 7: (2 sc, 1 inc) x 3 (12)
Rnd 8-9: sc in all sts (12)
Rnd 10: (3 sc, 1 inc) x 3 (15)
Rnd 11-14: sc in all sts (15)
Rnd 15: (3 sc, 1 dec) x 3 (12)
Start to stuff.
Rnd 16: (2 sc, 1 dec) x 3 (9)
Rnd 17: (1 sc, 1 dec) x 3 (6)
Fasten off and leave a yarn tail for sewing the gap together. Weave in yarn tail.
Ears x2
With green chenille yarn.
Rnd 1: 4 sc in Mr (4)
Rnd 2: (1 sc, 1 inc) x 2 (6)
Rnd 3: (2 sc, 1 inc) x 2 (8)
Rnd 4-8: sc in all sts (8)
Fold and crochet 1 sc through all 4 layers. Crochet 2 sc in total.
Make one more ear and then sew them together at the bottom. Sew the ears on the top of the carrot between R16-17.
Embroider
- Embroider the eyes with black and white cotton yarn over R12-R13.
- Embroider the nose as a triangle over R11 with pink cotton yarn.
- Embroider cheeks with pink cotton yarn just under the eyes.
