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Hot Cross Bun Bunny with Butter crochet pattern

  • Mathematically BalancedChecked by script: in all 48 rounds the increases and decreases add up to the stitch count.

by the pattern engineFood

Difficulty
1/3
Time
~2 h
Size
8.1 cm
Weirdness
1/5
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A4 PDF: materials, every round with a tick box, assembly and face

Free crochet hot cross bun pattern: a Hot Cross Bun Bunny with Butter amigurumi, about 8 cm tall in DK yarn with a 2.5 mm hook. The toy is a plump golden-brown bun with a white cross on its forehead, upright bunny ears with pink insides, currant freckles, a happy blep face and two paws hugging a pat of butter. You need about 65 m of yarn: 40 m golden brown, 5 m butter, 5 m cream, 5 m pink, 5 m coral and 5 m white. Plan on roughly 2 hours. A cheerful Easter table decoration or a gift for anyone who loves baking and bunnies. Turn the 3D model around and follow the round-by-round pattern, then embroider the cross last.

How to crochet the Hot Cross Bun Bunny with Butter

Beginner-friendly · 8 cm tall · about 2 h · DK yarn · 2.5 mm hook

  1. Crochet the 8 pieces in rounds: Bun body with head, Ear ×2, Paw ×2, Pompom tail, Cheek ×2 (48 rounds in all).
  2. Stuff and put it together in 6 steps; each one lights up where it goes on the 3D model.
  3. Add the face: safety eyes by round and stitch, or embroider them for a child under 3.

Every round with its stitch count is in the Pattern tab below, and in the free printable PDF.

What you'll need

Tick things off as you gather them.

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Gauge

1 sc ≈ 4 mm wide, 1 round ≈ 3.6 mm tall (10 cm ≈ 25 sc × 28 rounds); yarn about 1.9 mm thick. The gauge sets the size of the toy; crochet tightly so the stuffing does not show.

Worked in

Continuous spiral rounds. Don't join. Move a stitch marker up every round.

Parts

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0 of 43 rounds done

  26. Size before assembly: about 8.5 cm at the widest, 6 cm long; 27 rounds.
  27. Change to golden brown (pull it through on the last yarn-over of R4).
  28. → Start stuffing (moderately) and keep adding as you decrease.
  29. Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 6 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.

  9. Size before assembly: about 2.8 cm at the widest, 3.3 cm long; 10 rounds. Multi-colour rounds are listed stitch by stitch from the round-start marker; keep the round start on the piece's centre front line (as it sits on the finished toy). The order is for right-handed crocheting (right to left on the outside); left-handed: reverse it.
  10. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Stuff it lightly — a thin layer, just enough to hold the walls apart: the ear about 10.8 mm thick, with thick rounded edges. Then shape it into a spoon: push the front wall toward the back wall — a concave spoon about 2.9 mm deep in front, a rounded back; about 28 mm wide. Keep the opening a curve, hollow side forward, not a straight line.<!-- (spoon 50 %) -->

  5. Size before assembly: about 1.2 cm at the widest, 1.8 cm long; 5 rounds.
  6. → Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
  7. Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 6 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.

  5. Size before assembly: about 1.2 cm at the widest, 1.4 cm long; 4 rounds.
  6. → Start stuffing (firmly) and keep adding as you decrease.
  7. Top up the stuffing if needed. Fasten off leaving a 15 cm tail; with the needle weave it through the front loops of all 6 stitches of the last round, pull tight and hide the end inside.

  3. A flat circle about 1.5 cm across; 2 rounds.
  4. Fasten off leaving a long tail (30–40 cm) for sewing. Do not stuff.

The whole face is embroidered. Order: the eyes (black satin), then the white glints over them, then the nose and mouth, blush last. Mark the centres with pins first and compare with the picture. Bring thread ends out where a sewn-on piece will cover them, or bury them in the stuffing.

  • Satin stitch (on the bun body with head): in white thread, a oval about 44 mm wide and 8.5 mm tall, horizontal stitches; centred in round 23, on the centre front line .
  • Satin stitch (on the bun body with head): in white thread, a oval about 8.5 mm wide and 36 mm tall, horizontal stitches; centred in round 23, on the centre front line .
  • Embroidery in dark brown thread (on the bun body with head) (2, symmetric: the toy's left side is described, the right is its mirror image), straight stitches through: (in round 17, 2.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (in round 18, 3.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (in round 18, 4 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (in round 18, 5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ).
  • Satin stitch (on the bun body with head): in dark brown thread, a oval about 5 mm wide and 3.5 mm tall, horizontal stitches; centred between rounds 16 and 17, on the centre front line.
  • Embroidery in dark brown thread (on the bun body with head), straight stitches through: (in round 16, on the centre front line) → (between rounds 15 and 16, 0.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's right ) → (between rounds 15 and 16, 1 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's right ) → (in round 16, 1.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's right ).
  • Embroidery in dark brown thread (on the bun body with head), straight stitches through: (in round 16, on the centre front line) → (between rounds 15 and 16, 0.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (between rounds 15 and 16, 1 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ) → (in round 16, 1.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left ).
  • Satin stitch (on the bun body with head): in tongue thread, a oval about 4.5 mm wide and 5 mm tall, horizontal stitches; centred in round 15, on the centre front line.
  • Satin stitch (on the bun body with head): in dark brown thread, a oval about 4.2 mm wide and 3.2 mm tall, horizontal stitches; centred between rounds 19 and 20, 14 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left .
  • Satin stitch (on the bun body with head): in dark brown thread, a oval about 4.2 mm wide and 3.2 mm tall, horizontal stitches, turned 30° clockwise (looking at that surface); centred in round 13, 18.5 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's right .

Bun body with head · R1–R5

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  • Satin stitch (on the bun body with head): in dark brown thread, a oval about 4.2 mm wide and 3.2 mm tall, horizontal stitches, turned 60° clockwise (looking at that surface); centred in round 21, 3.5 st from the centre back line, toward the toy's left .
  • Satin stitch (on the bun body with head): in dark brown thread, a oval about 4.2 mm wide and 3.2 mm tall, horizontal stitches, turned 90° clockwise (looking at that surface); centred between rounds 12 and 13, 22 st from the centre front line, toward the toy's left.
  • Satin stitch (on the bun body with head): in dark brown thread, a oval about 4.2 mm wide and 3.2 mm tall, horizontal stitches, turned 120° clockwise (looking at that surface); centred in round 19, 6 st from the centre back line, toward the toy's right.
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    Abbreviations

    MR
    magic ring
    sc
    single crochet
    inc
    2 sc in the same stitch
    dec
    single crochet two stitches together (invisible decrease recommended)
    BLO
    work the round in back loops only
    FLO
    work the round in front loops only
    ch
    chain
    sl st
    slip stitch
    st
    stitch
    R5
    round 5; R7–14 = rounds 7 to 14 are the same
    (…) ×6
    repeat 6 times
    (24)
    stitches in the round when it is done