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 easter themed makes can be found here.

• Sewing Easter themed makes can be found here.

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.

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).

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.