Easter is right around the corner, so you know what that means! I’m hoppin’ over to one of my most favorite FREE spring crochet bunny patterns I’ve ever discovered while surfing online! It’s THE pattern for spring and Easter, and you can find it here on Ravelry or you can find it HERE on The Green Dragonfly blog!
I mean look it! Look. At. Himbz! SQUEE!!!!!
These bunnies are addictive! They work up so easily and fairly quick, too! I can make a bunny in one relaxing evening of coffee and listening to a spooky or true crime podcast! I notice they’ve turned out well with any hook close to the one suggested and the yarn works as long as it’s close to the Red Heart Super Saver Yarn. I haven’t tried drastically different hooks or yarn, yet, but if y’all decide to use a giant hook and double up your yarn for a giant bunny, lemme know if it works out! We want pics, too! Add them to the Ravelry project pics or come right to the Craftyghoul facebook page and share them there, too!
This particular bunny is going to be for my two year old lil’ bebe’s Easter this year! I worked in a few embelishments here and there like stitched starbursts on the ears and little dashes dotted around. Her favorite color is purple, so I was sure to add that in! I also only used the inner loops to connect the two halves so there’s this neat little design along the sides. Sometimes that looks good and can elevate a pattern connection when usually it’s used to make a corner, angle, or drop off in a pattern.
Instead of doing the explosion-tail thing around a fork where my kiddo might pull out strands and eat ‘em, I decided to just use the face circle pattern and then dec around to make his tail! So, I’ll leave y’all with a picture of his adorbz lil’ puffy cotton tail!
This is definitely not the first time I’ve visited this pattern! I’ve made SO many of these over the years, y’all!
As some of you may have noticed, I disappeared for a couple years after having our lil’ bebe. (She’ll be known as “the Boss” or “the bebe” in this and future posts! Remember, I’m Starling, and my hubby is Master Betty, and we have Toby Toebeans the cat and Gamera the box turtle who goes by Turtle!) I didn’t take a fun hiatus. My health has been horrible, and I had a difficult pregnancy. Due to that and hormonal chaos after giving birth, I was not okay. I was unable to plan any posts or do any crafting, writing, reading, or hobbies at all! No falling into a long TV series or anything! I couldn’t eat, sleep, or focus on anything other than that lil’ bebe, and not because she was even needing anything at all 85% of the time! I feel it is important for us to discuss these things in our society, so that’s why I’m tossing in a little candid info here in the update real quick so that people can see this is something that can effect everyone ya know who has lil’ babies, tries for lil’ babies, and those close to them!
It was way more intense than it should have been, and she is a very easy to get along with bebe! She’s independent and healthy, but my brain was just OBSESSED, y’all, and I didn’t realize the hormonal imbalance could throw you off in that way. I was only watching out for depression and my physical health, which took a worse turn as I gave birth and the few months after which ended in a life saving surgery a few months after from an ailment I’d had since labor.
I talked to my doc about the anxiety and obsession, of course, but not before some time passed as I didn’t realize TOO MUCH OVERWHELMING LOVE could be a thing, LOL! And we got me some simple little happy pills to even me back out so I chill out and stop wondering what she’s doing, what she’s thinking, how is she feeling, like every. Single. Second. I couldn’t even take a thinkin’ break when my healthy, competent little family support system stepped in often to happily take over SO I could rest.
My advice is, if you’re uncomfortable, don’t let people tell you things like oh that’s just the way it is with a new baby or of course, you’re a mother now, it’s all you’re gonna be and do and of course you’re going to miss a little sleep and worry about your baby. If it is beyond okay for you, make sure to stand firm with that and insist very clearly to your docs that it does NOT seem to be the norm, because imbalances can throw you off in so many ways after poppin’ out a little MacGyver-brain-level engineer bebe.
I think it’s all slowly evening out, and life is good! Now it’s still “OMGodzilla I LOVE HER SO MUCH I DIDN’T KNOW ANYONE COULD LOVE THIS MUCH”, yet I’m not losing myself in the process! Much more what I’d expect for healthy mama/baby dynamic, ha!
I suggest for everyone to be your own advocate in health and be firm and open with your docs if something like this starts poking at ya! It’s totally not abnormal to get outta whack after the physical trauma of creating a tiny human from scratch, and whether you get the obsession with your bebe brand kind of imbalance, or the super depressed even spookier brand of postpartum issues, it IS okay to talk with your doc. Don’t put it off! That’s not you, no one competent thinks you’re a bad or weak parent, and it’s actually SO common. Do not be shy about it! The sooner you grab a little help to balance out, the faster you’ll be back to loving on your family and friends and accepting support and help from all those people you KNOW that they totally know what they’re doin’ and you can let them walk off without freaking out if you can’t see the baby for two seconds. And…the sooner you’ll be getting back to yourself so you can…CROCHET!!!! YAY!!!
I’m really hoping to schedule some regular posts soon, and perhaps even remodel the blog and update my patterns as my skills have improved so much over the last decade! Please be patient with me, and I truly, deeply appreciate my Ghoulz who are still here despite me going MIA! You guyz are such a beautiful community, and you mean so much to me!
An update for now is that our lil’ bebe came out just fine! She is the most confident, social, curious, sweet, brilliant, and somehow pensive little tiny overlord I could ever imagine! We love her SO much! Toby Toebeans is doing great, and he took to the mini-overlord right away. We are all her minions!
Now I must get back to hunting down neat free crochet patterns all over the place for inspiration and to share with you guyz! Thank you for following along with my journey and to everyone subscribed to my blog, and thank you for bringing your interests in crafting and crochet here to Craftyghoul!
(You can find my blog and links to the FREE CROCHET PATTERNS I have created HERE, and you can follow the Craftyghoul Facebook page here where I regularly share free patterns I found around the web!)
Alright. As I’ve mentioned before, I have been pretty sick and very limited in what I can do, but I THINK I managed to track down the patterns I was using to create these projects that I started and have only recently been able to finish 7 months later! I had jotted them down and tucked them into my crochet project bag which is why I had to hunt down where I found the free patterns now.
I think the daisy blanket square pattern came from this link. I personally used a K hook and just made enough squares to turn it into a baby blanket. I was kind of winging it on the picket border since at the time I didn’t remember where I got the pattern from.
The booties definitely came from this link! They are fireman boots or galoshes! So cute! I used a g hook like they suggested on the 0-3 month sized boots, and then I used an F hook to make a smaller newborn version just in case.
The hat pattern, I used the center of the daisy square pattern to make the flowers to go on them, and I’m fairly certain I used the basic beanie pattern at this link. I used a K hook instead of a J hook though because I don’t have a J hook, and I kept the stitches tight to make up for it. I kind of crochet tight because of anxiety anyway.
Hello, my crafty ghouls! I suppose it’s time for another life update! As you may have guessed by the picture, we’re expecting our first baby! She is due in late December, and we’re so excited! She is a healthy baby, they me, but my health has been a struggle through this. I think everything is gonna be fine, though, ghoulz!
We’ve had so much going on! This October was our 16 year wedding anniversary! We moved to a bigger townhouse to have room for a nursery, and we’ve been so busy moving, arranging, and planning to get everything we need on our baby registry and also to learn all the basics we need to know to be good parents! Toby Toebeans has been doing great, and he adjusted to the new townhouse in no time! He is the little prince of his castle and is enjoying all the easily accessible windows to watch out of.
I had planned to do so many baby crochet projects, buy my health took a really harsh turn and I’m not able to take most of my medications. I stepped down on anything that might be even remotely questionable for healthy baby growin’ a few months before we were planning to start trying again for a baby. I thought I was doing pretty well, but the pregnancy and many stresses that hit us at once out of nowhere have hit me very hard. My fibromyalgia decided to flare up, and pregnancy fatigue on top of chronic fatigue syndrome isn’t the most stimulating circumstance. Morning sickness and depression popped up early and NEVER WENT AWAY. I’m on medication for it, but I’ve become so anemic that they have me on iron now. I’ve wound up losing about 8 pounds and haven’t gained ANYTHING yet, and I’m 8 months in. They say she’s doing great in there, though, and I’m trying all I can to take care of us properly. My husband (Valtiel/Master Betty) has been doing ALL THE THINGS and is so helpful and caring. I’m a lucky chick to have so much support!
So, I haven’t been able to do a zillion projects to show off, but I have been slowly starting to feel a bit better as of late, and I was finally recently been able to finish a crochet baby blanket and two sizes of matching hats and booties that I had started in the first month before everything hit me so hard. I will share pictures of those projects in my next post and try to link to what I can remember about where I found the patterns. I jotted down the patterns hastily and then the projects sat there partially finished forever, so I’m not sure if I remember exactly where I found them.
Oh! I was able to create a little heart strip crochet baby hat for size newborn to 3 months, and I’m going to try to upload that free pattern soon to share with you! I’m hoping to make matching booties, but we’ll see how things go.
And that’s about it, ghoulz! I look forward to sharing patterns with y’all!
Hey, guys! It’s come to my attention that my kitty sweater patterns are on the small side. I’m going to make notes, but if you want larger patterns, add more chains in the beginning chain to shape the chest. Since I make the arm hole rows early on, you can use this to slide it onto your pet and see if you like the size or if you want to adjust it before you spend a lot of time making it only to find it is too small. The patterns are written to where it’s pretty basic to adjust for a larger beginning chain. That being said, I have not yet done any adjustments for larger pets.
When I made this pattern, our kitty, Mizzy, was very old, and she was a petite kitty. This pattern is for tiny cats, or teen/older kittens. I’ve seen it used for a rabbit sweater, and it worked for me when I made one for a chihuahua/rat terrier sized extra small dog. So if you’re wanting notes on the size, there ya go!
Mizzy Kitty passed away a few years ago, and we now have a kitten, October the Cat-Toby Toebeans. I call him a kitten, but he is two years old this month, (October 2021)! I just tried to make him a sweater, and he is ALREADY TOO BIG for this sweater, LOL! This made me think that I’d better make some notes on the size to go with this pattern, so I’ll be adding this at the beginning of both the patterns.
