Rebecca Rabbit is delightfully floppy knitted toy. She has a realistic style, yet is of a simple design and has a cute charm.
Rebecca is an adorable member of our household, she lives with her friends Lucy Lamb, Mischief Monkey, Leonard Lion and Freddie Fox. All five are much loved by the tiny humans and their friends!

She is quick and simple to knit, using any yarn that you wish. I have knitted her as both a brown and a black rabbit, but she could equally be knitted in a bright variegated yarn for a more contemporary look. Use any thickness of yarn, thicker - larger rabbit, thinner yarn a tiny, cute bunny. The rabbit in the pictures here was knitted in a chunky yarn on 6mm needles. She is about 30cm high (tip toe to top of head). If you were to use a 4ply yarn and 3mm needles, she would be about half size at 15cm high. Generally I recommend using a needle size a bit smaller than that suggested for the yarn, you will want to knit quite a tight fabric, so that the stuffing doesn’t show through.

If knitting in DK (Sport) weight yarn, you will need approx 30g of the main colour (white). For an aran (Worsted) weight you will need approx 75g, and for a chunky yarn, approx 150g.

This pattern has instructions to knit using straight needles (flat pieces), OR in the round using a circular needle. If knitting in the round, you can avoid much of the sewing up! You will need to use the magic loop technique to knit the small pieces in the round, a tutorial for this is included. If you are not so comfortable with knitting in the round, or do not have a circular needle handy, then the pattern pieces can be easily knitted on straight needles, and sewn up later.

The pattern knits each body part separately, then these are stitched together to create a floppy rabbit of pleasing structure. Soft and slightly floppy in the limbs, yet firm enough to sit up unaided.
The tail is made with a small pom pom, and the face embroidered with yarn scraps.

This pattern includes 2 pdf downloads, one with UK terminology and one using US terms. Rebecca’s friends, Ulysses Unicorn, Freddie Fox, Lucy Lamb, Leonard Lion & Mischief Monkey are also available in other listings.