Knitted Bunny Wine Bottle Topper Pattern

Hello Friends,

I hope you are doing well. I decided to knit bunny wine bottle toppers for Easter and will be giving them as gifts to my soon to be mother-in-law and my parents for Easter.I originally saw some bunny wine bottle toppers while shopping at Pottery Barn years ago and was inspired to make my own. I have shared a pattern I made with you down below if you want to make your own bunny wine bottle topper for Easter or the Spring season.

Bunny wine bottle topper

Pattern

Notes:

• The finished topper bunny's face stretches over the bottle so create your bunny face how you would like it to look when placed on the bottle. 
• You can adjust the needle size and yarn size according to how big or small you want your bunny to be. The bunny I made fits tightly to the bottle, as some extra stitches if you would like it to be a looser fit. 
• Pattern made to fit a wine bottle about 1" in diameter and a neck of the bottle that is 3.5" in length.

Materials needed:

• Circular needles or double pointed needles (I used size US 4 3.5 mm circular needles)
• White yarn or color of your choice (I used Aran (8 wpi) weight wool)
• Darning needle
• Black, white, and pink thread
• Sewing Needle

Body
Cast on 20 stitches
Knit in the round until piece is the length you desire I knitted until the piece measured 3" inches long
Start decreasing (k2tog), choose your rate of decrease. I had 20 stitches and chose to k2tog every 3 stitches so I decreased 4 stitches 1st round, then knit one round, then decreased every two stitches, then 1 stitch until I had 8 stitches left then cut off and threaded yarn through darning needle and then closed the top of the bunny's head.
Final piece measures 3.5" and about 1.5" wide.


Ears (knit in stockinette, knitted right side for outside of bunny's ear and purl inside for wrong side)
Cast on 1 stitch
Knit the first stitch and knit into back to create one more stitch
Purl the next row
Repeat row 2 and 3 until there are 7 stitches and stop increase
Knit right side and purl wrong side of ear until it measures 7".
Decrease 1 stitch (k2tog) every other row and continue purling the other side, until 4 stitches remain and bind off. Sew the ears onto the top of the head by the end where you bound off.
Ears measure 8" when finished.

Face
One one side of bunny, create a face for your bunny.
Sew the eyes as desired. I sewed them as small circles
Sew the nose as desired. I sewed the nose as an upside down triangle below the eyes
Mouth: sew as desired. I sewed the mouth as a short line below the nose then two other short lines in an upside down V below.

Your bunny is finished! Enjoy giving the bunny as a gift to your host on top of a bottle of wine or enjoy decorating your own wine bottles with them to celebrate the Easter holiday or Spring season.

Joining along with Ginny and others for Yarn Along and Frontier Dreams for Crafting On.

Thank you for visiting my blog and I hope that you enjoy making your very own bunny wine bottle topper. Please let me know if you try it out, I would love to see your projects on Ravelry, your blog, or Instagram!

Celebrating Life and Plans for Knitting

Hello Friends,

I hope you are doing well. It has been a bit busier lately and I am also getting ready for a new season. Last night I went to my great uncle Paul's celebration of Life which was a funeral service at the church, followed by a reception and many lovely speeches about memories of him. He was an amazing man and had so many friends and family that adored him,  he will be missed. It made me reflect on our lives and how we touch the lives of others and what kind of legacy we want to leave behind to family and friends. We choose how we treat others and ourselves each day and we can work on accomplishing our goals and dreams so we feel fulfilled at the end of our lives. A recent retirement party at work also made me think of this as well as she was well loved and respected by so many colleagues. I can learn a lot from both my uncle and my manager for the lives they lead and how they treated others.

“We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.” ― Desmond Tutu.

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ― Robert Louis

I finished the Michele hat a couple of weeks ago and I have not cast on a new project since. It always feels so weird when I don't have a knitting project on the go. I love to knit and watch YouTube and television shows and my hands feel so empty when I am not knitting. I also love how you can feel so productive when working on a project while watching things otherwise I have this feeling like I should be doing something else. I will probably go by Michaels to pick up some yarn for a new project soon and maybe start on a quick project in the meantime. Easter is coming so I might be inspired to knit something for Easter. Some projects that I found on Ravelry that looked cute and fun to knit were Henry's Bunny,and Tiny Parlor Cat. I might knit both of these as gifts. I am still researching shawl patterns to start one soon.

I am still reading Quiet by Susan Cain and A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult. I am enjoying both books and will be finished soon and ready to start a new book.

How was your weekend? What are you reading and working on?

Finished Knitting the Michele Hat

Hello Friends,

I hope you are doing well. It was the first day of Spring here in Canada yesterday and we still have a bit of snow on the ground, but it has been so much warmer and brighter out later in the day. I am so looking forward to it being warmer out now. It has been good that we have had Winter because there is a lot of knitting inspiration, but I think it has been here long enough now. I can find some lighter knitting patterns.

I am finished knitting the Michele hat by Sarah Punderson.  It was a great pattern and a fun knit. I seem to always feel like knitting hats around this time of the year, right around the end of winter. I used the Fleece Artist yarn in the colorway of Blue Face Leicester. I enjoyed working with the yarn, it is soft and light.

Front

Side

Back

Pattern: Michele by Sarah Punderson

I don't have updates on reading that are different from Sunday's Post, I am still reading A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult and Quiet by Susan Cain. Both are very interesting and I am enjoying them.

Joining along with Frontier Dreams for Crafting On and As Kat Knits for Unwraveled Wednesday. And also late to the party, added this post to Ginny's Yarn Along link up for March.

Thank you for visiting my blog today and hope you enjoy the rest of your day!