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Crochet Easter Decorations – Part 2: Crochet Rabbit Ear And Tail Napkin Rings Pattern

These would be great for an Easter lunch, they could be made in different colours or be mixed with another Easter themed napkin ring – pattern for another Easter themed crochet napkin ring can be found here.

You could even use these to hold together rolled up easter egg hunt maps, or a few chocolate bars to make an Easter gift.

More Easter themed makes:

Crochet Rabbit Ear And Tail Napkin Rings Pattern

Materials

  • DK wool in your chosen colour for the outer ears and band section.
  • DK wool in your chosen colour for the band section.
  • DK wool in your chosen colour for the inner ears.
  • DK wool in your chosen colour for the tail.
  • 4.5cm crochet hook.
  • Scissors.
  • Darning needle.

Crochet Rabbit Ear And Tail Napkin Rings Pattern

Outer Ears

Using your chosen outer ear colour and a 4.5mm crochet hook:

ch4, sc into 2nd ch from hook, sc along rest of the row (3).

Row 1: ch1 (doesn’t count as a stitch) 2sc into first stitch of the row, 2sc, 2sc into next stitch (5).

Rows 2-3: ch1 (doesn’t count as a stitch) sc along row.

Row 4: ch1 (doesn’t count as a stitch) 2sc into first stitch or the row, 3sc, 2sc into next stitch (7).

Rows 5-7: ch1 (doesn’t count as a stitch) sc along row.

Row 8: ch1 (doesn’t count as a stitch) sc2tog, 3sc, sc2tog (5).

Rows 9-10: ch1 (doesn’t count as a stitch) sc along row.

Row 11: ch1 (doesn’t count as a stitch) sc2tog, sc, sc2tog (3)

Row 12: ch1 (doesn’t count as a stitch) sc along row.

Row 13: ch1 (doesn’t count as a stitch) sc2tog, sc (2).

Row 14: ch1 (doesn’t count as a stitch) sc2tog (1).

Fasten off.

Cast on in bottom right hand side of the ear (pull up loop, ch1, sc into same stitch – Pictures 1-3) sc around the edge of the rabbit ear with sc stitches going into the row ends (picture 4), ss into 1st sc of the round (picture 5 and 6).

Fasten off, leaving long thread to attach.

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Picture 6

Inner Ears – Make 2

Using your chosen inner ear colour and a 4.5mm crochet hook:

ch8, sc into 2nd ch from the hook, sc along rest of the row (7 – picture 1), sc down the other side of the ch (7 – picture 2 and 3).

Turn, ch1 (doesn’t count as a stitch – picture 4) 6sc, (htr(UK)/hdc(US), tr(UK)/dc(US)) into next stitch (picture 5), (tr(UK)/dc(US), htr(UK)/hdc(US) into next stitch, 6sc (picture 6).

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Picture 6

Fasten off.

Napkin Band

Using your chosen band colour and a 4.5mm crochet hook:

ch25, sc into 2nd ch from the hook and sc along rest of the row (24).

Rows 1 and 2: ch1 (doesn’t count as a stitch) sc along row.

ch6, then sc into 1st stitch of row 1 (short end).

Fasten off.

Pom Pom Tail

Using your chosen tail colour wrap the wool around two fingers 20 times (or a strip of card 4cm wide), carefully remove and tie a 10cm long piece of wool around the middle to secure, then cut then loops.

Assembly

  • Sew the inner ear onto the outer ear.

  • Fold in the bottom left and right sides of the ear so they meet in the middle and sew to secure.

  • Sew the tail onto the right side end of the band (end without the ch6 loop).

  • Sew the ears onto the napkin band, with the inner ear facing inwards – one on top edge of each end.

  • To create the napkin ring place the ch6 loop over the tail.

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