Fun Tiny Knit Bunny Basket

 There are always things to make for friends and family.  This time I saw several videos on making bunnies to use for treats. I combined two or three of them and came up with this bunny basket.  It is about six inches long and 2 inches tall at the ears.  Maybe a little more.

The basics:  knit (or maybe crochet) as square.  Fold in half and, with a running stitch, stitch across the center and then up to the top and back down to the other side to form a triangle of running stitches.  Pull up the threads to make a "bunch" where you will insert some fiberfill to make a head. Don't put in a lot of the fiberfill. With the threads you pulled up to make the head, secure very tightly at the back of the head then take a few stitches up through between the ears and back down to the back of the neck.  Secure firmly. Weave in the end on the one ear then use a running stitch to secure the back of the bunny.  Pull up tightly and secure well. Glue on a pom pom for a tail and glue on goo goo eyes but if you are giving to a young child you might consider embroidering the eyes. I am not good at embroidering so I glued on cute eyes.  You could also put on a face if embroidery is one of your talents.  Not mine so my bunny baskets are just "all-seeing" bunnies who do not have to be fed.

 

After knitting your "square, put running stitches through. You can actually use one thread across the bottom then another one on each of the triangle sides.  I just used one after the first few bunnies. It worked just fine.

This shows where I pulled up the threads to form (and stuff) the head.

Here are the threads ready to sew up through the ears from the back of the head to secure them in place.  The neck stitches have already been pulled tight.

The needle has started the running stitches around the back of the "basket" part of the bunny.  Pull tight and secure.

Here is the basket opening visible.  Now just the pom pom tail is needed and the eyes.

  

Three bunny basket cousins ready to have plastic eggs filled with treats or to be filled with candies or other treats and placed inside the basket.  Some of the people I make these for will get rabbit food inside instead of pernicious chocolate. (I keep telling myself that chocolate is pernicious in hopes that I will hear it and stop acquiring any more for our house....)

The squares I made were all knitted on the Brother KX 350 flatbed plastic knitting machine.

Cast on 28 stitches with e-wrap.

Knit 45 rows at Tension 6 (for this I Love This Yarn from Hobby Lobby--so many spring colors...)

Knit Row 46 at Tension 9.5.

Bind off.

Make bunny basket.

Be sure to put weights on your knitting after row 2 or 3 or 4.