Lop-Eared Bunny — Free Amigurumi Pattern

Long folded ears are what make a bunny read as a bunny. They are worked flat at the tip and left unstuffed so they fall forward on their own.

Before you start

Work in a continuous spiral without joining rounds, and move a stitch marker up as you go. Every dec is an invisible decrease. Numbers in brackets are the stitch count at the end of the round.

Abbreviations: MR magic ring · sc single crochet · inc two sc in one stitch · dec invisible decrease · st stitch.

Gauge is not critical, but the fabric must be dense enough that stuffing does not show through. If it does, drop a hook size.

Head

• Round 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
• Round 2: inc in each st around [12]
• Round 3: [sc 1, inc] 6 times [18]
• Round 4: [sc 2, inc] 6 times [24]
• Round 5: [sc 3, inc] 6 times [30]
• Rounds 6–10: sc in each st around [30]
• Round 11: [sc 3, dec] 6 times [24]
• Round 12: [sc 2, dec] 6 times [18]
• Round 13: [sc 1, dec] 6 times [12]
• Round 14: dec around [6]

Place the safety eyes between rounds 7 and 8, six stitches apart. Stuff firmly before the last two rounds.

Body

• Round 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
• Round 2: inc in each st around [12]
• Round 3: [sc 1, inc] 6 times [18]
• Round 4: [sc 2, inc] 6 times [24]
• Rounds 5–10: sc in each st around [24]
• Round 11: [sc 2, dec] 6 times [18]
• Round 12: [sc 1, dec] 6 times [12]
• Round 13: dec around [6]

Stuff as you close, keeping the shape slightly pear-like rather than round.

Ears — make 2

• Round 1: 5 sc in magic ring [5]
• Round 2: inc in each st around [10]
• Rounds 3–11: sc in each st around [10]

Do not stuff. Flatten the ear and sc across the top to close it.

Arms — make 2

• Round 1: 5 sc in magic ring [5]
• Rounds 2–7: sc in each st around [5]

Stuff very lightly, only the lower half.

Legs — make 2

• Round 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
• Round 2: inc in each st around [12]
• Rounds 3–7: sc in each st around [12]

Stuff firmly enough that the bunny sits without tipping.

Assembly

1. Sew the head to the body across the last two rounds of the body, tilting it slightly back so the bunny looks up.
2. Pin the ears to rounds 3 and 4 of the head, about seven stitches apart, with the flattened edge facing forward. Sew across the base so they fold rather than stand.
3. Attach the arms at round 6 of the body and the legs at the last increase round, angled forward.
4. Embroider a small pink nose over rounds 1 and 2 of the head, with two short stitches running down to the muzzle.

Making it a different size

Every stitch count here scales together. To make this 11 cm lop-eared bunny larger or smaller, scale the magic ring and each round by the same factor — the pattern resizer does the arithmetic and rewrites the increase rounds. To keep the size but use a different yarn, the yarn weight converter shows what changes.