Crochet Vola the Bunny Rabbit

Crochet Vola the Bunny Rabbit is an adorable and fun project to bring to life. With its soft yarn and detailed instructions, creating Vola will surely bring a smile to your face. From its fluffy tail to its floppy ears, this crochet bunny is perfect for cuddling or gifting to a fellow bunny lover. Get your crochet hooks ready and prepare for a delightful crafting experience with Vola the Bunny Rabbit!

Materials:

2.25 mm crochet hook
Worsted weight yarn, main color
Bee Cloud 9 or the equivalent to a fur yarn and a light weight yarn of similar color, fluff yarn
12 mm safety eyes
Yarn needle
Fiber fill
Yarn of the pink variety for nose and blush
Stitch markers

Abbreviations:
MC = Magic circle
Sc = single crochet
St = stitch
Sl st = slip stitch
Rnd = round
Sc rnd = single crochet in each stitch of the rnd
CC = yarn color change, counts as first stitch of the rnd and is followed by a sl st
Inc = increase
Dec = decrease
[…] = repeat instructions within brackets as specified

Techniques:

Magic circle: Essential to the start of most amigurumi

Invisible decrease: Good for preventing gaps and giving a more uniform look to your sc’s. 

Working in front lps: For my patterns I always work sc’s in the front loops of the stitch, unless otherwise specified. By working in only the front loops the sc’s will stack up straighter than if you worked them in both loops.

Stitch markers: I use a stitch marker (bobby pin) for keeping track of the beginning of my rounds, I place it in the first stitch of the round.

Staggered rounds: Staggered rounds off set the patterns inc’s or dec’s so you don’t get that pinwheel look and it is more of a circle instead of a hexagon. For example, [4 sc, inc] x6 is an even inc round that can be a staggered round, so it would become, 2 sc, inc, [4 sc, inc] x5, 2 sc, the even sc’s are split at the beginning of the round.

Close: Closing a piece is threading your yarn needle with the yarn end and putting it through each of the front loops of the last rounds’ sc’s, usually 6, and pulling tight. It should look like a mini magic circle, then put the needle through the center of it and out through the piece. Tie your knot and stuff ends back into the piece.

Whip stitch: Usually means the finished piece is folded flat with the last sc or yarn end at the edge of the piece. Thread yarn needle with yarn end, and again with only the front loops, ‘zigzag,’ or whip stitch the opening closed.

Pattern:

Starting with the head:
The head and body are one piece and you start off making the head in your main color. Rnd 11 is the color change to to the fluff yarn which is your fur yarn and light weight yarn together.

In main color
RND 1: 6 sc in MC (6 sts)
RND 2: 6 inc (12 sts)
RND 3: [sc, inc] x6 (18 sts)
RND 4: sc, inc, [2 sc, inc] x5, sc (24 sts)
RND 5: [3 sc, inc] x6 (30 sts)
RND 6: 2 sc, inc, [4 sc, inc] x5, 2 sc (36 sts)
RND 7-11: Five sc rnds (36 sts)
RND 12: CC to fluff yarn, sl st, 34 sc (36 sts)
RND 13: 2s c, inc, [4 sc, dec] x5, 2 sc (30 sts)
RND 14: [3 sc, dec] x6 (24 sts)
RND 15: 6 sc, 6 dec, 6 sc (18 sts)

Place eyes between rnds 11 and 12, 10 sts apart, and then fully stuff the head.

RND 16: sc, inc, [2 sc, inc] x5, sc (24 sts)
RND 17: [3 sc, inc] x6 (30 sts)
RND 18: cc to main color, sl st, inc, [4 sc, inc] x5, 2 sc (36 sts)
RND 19: [sc, inc] x3, 24sc, [sc, inc] x3 (42 sts)
RND 20: 3 sc, inc, [6 sc, inc] x5, 3 sc (48 sts)
RND 21-23: Three sc rnds (48 sts)
RND 24: 3 sc, dec, [6 sc, dec] x5, 3 sc (42 sts)
RND 25: [5 sc, dec] x6 (36 sts)
RND 26: 2 sc, dec, [4 sc, dec] x5, 2 sc (30 sts)

Make sure the head is fully stuff and partially stuff the body, then move on to making the base.

Base:
Just a circle to sew into the bottom of body to give the bunny a flat base to sit on.

RND 1: MC 6 sc (6 sts)
RND 2: 6 inc (12 sts)
RND 3: [sc, inc] x6 (18 sts)
RND 4: sc, inc [2 sc, inc] x5, sc (24 sts)
RND 5: [3 sc, inc] x6 (30 sts)

Insert the base into body the stitches should line up together, thread yarn needle with the base’s yarn end and begin whip stitching the base and body together. Stuff more as you go. Tie in both yarn ends for the base and body.

Ears x2
The ears start off with the fluff yarn and change to main color at rnd 5.
Start with fluff yarn
RND 1: MC 6 sc (6 sts)
RND 2: 6 inc (12 sts)
RND 3: sc rnd (12 sts)
RND 4: [sc, inc] x6 (18 sts)
RND 5: cc to main color, sl st, 16 sc (18 sts)
RND 6: Two sc rnds (18 sts)
RND 7: 2sc, dec, [4 sc, dec] x2, 2 sc (15 sts)
RND 8: sc rnd (15 sts)
RND 9: [3 sc, dec] x3 (12 sts)
RND 10: sc rnd (12 sts)
RND 11: sc, dec, [2 sc, dec] x2, sc (9 sts)
RND 12-13: Two sc rnds (9 sts)

Thread yarn needle with the yarn end and whip stitch the opening closed and then attach to the head between rnds 6 and 7, (looking from the front) around 14 sts apart

Tail
Done completely with fluff yarn.

With fluff yarn
RND 1: MC 6 sc (6 sts)
RND 2: 6 inc (12 sts)
RND 3: [sc, inc] x6 (18 sts)
RND 4: [2sc, inc] x6 (24 sts)
RND 5: sc rnd (24 sts)
RND 6: [2sc, dec] x6 (18 sts)
RND 7: [sc, dec] x6 (12 sts)
Stuff and attach to the body, The position of the tail is completely personal preference (I kind of liked the lower tail myself).

Back feet
Done in a chain round, where sc’s are worked into both sides of a chain to the start the rnd off in a oval shape.

In main color
RND 1: ch 6+1, turn, 6 sc, rotate, 6 sc,
Before cutting the yarn sl st into next next st. Attach to the body following along the seam of the base and body.

Front feet

In main color
Cut a length of yarn and thread in through the yarn needle. Working in the ‘seam’ of base and body, find the center and start looping the yarn through a stitch. Keep building it up till it resembles a paw. Skip a few stitches and begin working the next one. Weave in ends.

Nose and blush
In accent pink color thread yarn needle, count four stitches in from the eye and insert needle (Leave enough yarn at the end for tying in later), skip two stitches, poke needle through, pull yarn through, insert needle back into first hole, skip one stitch move one row down, poke needle through, pull yarn through, insert needle up one row and over the pink accent yarn, skip stitch and poke needle through (left side of nose), pull yarn through, insert needle back into first hole, (0ptional blush if opting out just tie in ends) poke needle out near the eye for blush, skip stitch and insert hook, repeat for other side. Tie in ends.