Adorable Bunny Keychain (Stitch-style)
🧶 Materials Needed
- Yarn: YarnArt Dolce Baby (50g / 85m)
- Dark blue: Color 777
- Light Blue: Color 749
- Pink: Color 750
- For the Lilac Version: Lilac (Color 744), Pink (Color 750)
- Nose Yarn: A small amount of dark purple velvet yarn (unbranded yarn used).
- Hook: 4.0 mm crochet hook
- Sewing Yarn: Small amount of cotton yarn in blue and lilac (for sewing the ears).
- Eyes: 8.00 mm black safety eyes (2 pieces).
- Other Tools & Supplies: Darning needle, pins, scissors, polyester fiberfill stuffing, textile glue (optional – for attaching the nose), and small metal rings/colorful charm cord if making a bag charm.
🔑 Abbreviations (US Terms)
- Mr: Magic ring
- Rnd: Round
- st/sts: stitch/stitches
- Ch: Chain stitch
- Sl st: Slip stitch
- Sc: Single crochet stitch
- Hdc: Half double crochet stitch
- Dc: Double crochet stitch
- dec: Decrease 2 single crochet stitches together
- inc: Increase 2 single crochet stitches in the same stitch.
- Bobble-4-dc: A bobble stitch made of 4 partially double crochet stitches.
- Bobble-4-dc (full definition): Make 4 double crochet stitches in the same stitch and then yarn over, pull through all the loops on your hook (the original loop + 1 loop for each partially completed double crochet).
- (…) * n: repeat total $n$ times for instructions between the round.
- [number] at the end of each round: the stitch count will total [number].
I. Components
1. Head and Body (Spiral Rounds)
(Begin with dark blue yarn. Color changes are indicated in bold and red with light blue yarn.)
| Rnd | Pattern | Stitches (St) |
| 1 | 7 sc in a Mr | [7] |
| 2 | 7 inc | [14] |
| 3 | (sc, inc) * 7 | [21] |
| 4 | 21 sc | [21] |
| 5 | (5 sc, inc) * 4 | [24] |
| 6 | 5 sc, inc, sc, 3 sc, 3 sc, 3 sc, inc, 6 sc | [26] |
| 7 | 6 sc, inc, 4 sc, 3 sc, 3 sc, inc, 7 sc | [28] |
| 8 | 7 sc, 4 sc, 3 sc, 4 sc, 9 sc | [28] |
| 9 | 8 sc, 2 inc, 4 sc, 3 sc, 4 sc, 2 inc, 7 sc | [32] |
| 10 | 11 sc, 3 sc, 3 sc, 3 sc, 12 sc | [32] |
| 11 | 32 sc | [32] |
| Start stuffing the head. Add small amounts of fiberfill as you go. | ||
| Place the safety eyes between Rnd 8 and Rnd 9, placing them 7 sts apart. | ||
| Change to light blue yarn | ||
| 12 | (2 sc, dec) * 8 | [24] |
| 13 | 4 sc, inc, 6 sc, inc, 4 sc | [18] |
| Change to dark blue yarn | ||
| 14 | 5 sc, inc, 1 bobble-4-dc, 4 inc, 1 bobble-4-dc, inc, 5 sc | [24] |
| 15 | 8 sc, 8 hdc, 8 sc | [24] |
| 16 | 7 sc, 1 bobble-4-dc, 8 hdc, 1 bobble-4-dc, 7 sc | [24] |
| 17 | (2 sc, dec) * 6 | [18] |
| 18 | (sc, dec) * 6 | [12] |
| 19 | 6 dec | [6] |
| Close the gap using a needle. |
2. Ear (Make 2)
(Begin with light pink yarn.)
| Rnd | Pattern | Stitches (St) |
| Chain 11, start to crochet second ch from the hook: | ||
| 1 | 9 hdc, 4 hdc in the last ch, 10 hdc to the another side of the ch | [23] |
| Change to dark blue yarn | ||
| 2 | 23 sc | [23] |
| Slst and fasten off. | ||
| Note: For the lilac version, use pink yarn for Rnd 1 and lilac yarn for Rnd 2. |
3. Nose
(Use purple yarn.)
- Chain 3.
- Work 3 dc into the third chain from the hook.
- Sl st and fasten off.
II. Assembling
- Ears: Pinch the top part of the ear, making sure the last chain (where you worked 4 hdc) is facing downward. Sew the ears to the sides of the head around Round 5, leaving 1 stitch away from the outer edge of the light blue part (the light blue patch on the head).
- Nose: Glue the nose between Rounds 8 and 9, placing it 2 stitches away from both safety eyes.
- Bag Charm (Optional): If you’re making a bag charm, attach a small metal ring to the first round of the head and thread the charm cord through the ring.
Lilac Version Note
- Use lilac instead of dark blue.
- Replace all light blue parts with light pink.
- Keep the rest of the pattern the same.
