Mia the Bunny

Free Mia the Bunny crochet tutorial by Olga Kuvshinkina @kuvshinka_toys.

Using this pattern, you can crochet a plush Mia the Bunny in a dress. Any fluffy yarn will work for this amigurumi project, including Alize Softy, Adelia Sofia, and similar yarns. If you like, you can decorate the bunny with a ribbon.

Experience working with long-pile yarn is required.

The finished toy is about 33 cm (13 in) tall, not including the ears.

Materials and Tools

• Alize Softy Plus fluffy yarn, color 31 pink (1.5 skeins)
• Alize Softy Plus fluffy yarn in gray (for the dress, less than one skein)
• YarnArt Jeans yarn (for embroidering the nose)
• 4 mm crochet hook
• 10 mm safety eyes
• Toy stuffing
• Stitch markers
• Needle for sewing pieces together
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• MR — magic ring
• ch — chain stitch
• tch — turning chain
• sl st — slip stitch
• sc — single crochet
• dc — double crochet
• inc — increase
• dec — decrease
• (...) x n — repeat n times

Mia the Plush Bunny Amigurumi Crochet Pattern

If this is your first time working with Softy yarn, mark each completed round and count the stitches in every round. The fluffy texture makes it easy to lose your place.

Head

1: 6 sc in MR (6)
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
6-7: 30 sc
8: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
9: (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42)
10-11: 42 sc
12: (6 sc, inc) x 6 (48)
13-14: 48 sc
15: (6 sc, dec) x 6 (42)
16: (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
17: (4 sc, dec) x 6 (30)
18: (3 sc, dec) x 6 (24)
19: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18)

Insert the safety eyes and stuff the piece, shaping the head as desired. Leave a long tail for sewing.

Arms (make 2)

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (3 sc, inc) x 3 (15)
4-5: 15 sc
6: (3 sc, dec) x 3 (12)
7: (2 sc, dec) x 3 (9)
8: 9 sc
9: 9 sc, change color at the end of the round (if your bunny is wearing a dress)
10-15: 9 sc (6 rounds)

Stuff the arms, adding very little stuffing at the top. Fold each arm in half and crochet the edges together with sc. Fasten off and weave the yarn tail inside the arm.

Body

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
6: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
7: (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42)
8: (6 sc, inc) x 6 (48)
9-11: 48 sc (3 rounds)
At the end of this round, change to the dress color.
12: (6 sc, dec) x 6 (42)
13-15: 42 sc (3 rounds)
16: (5 sc, dec) x 6 (36)
17-18: 36 sc
19: 12 sc, 6 dec, 12 sc (30)
20: 30 sc
21: 9 sc, 6 dec, 9 sc (24)
22: (2 sc, dec) x 6 (18)
23: Crochet the arms into this round, then change back to the main color at the end of the round (18)
24-25: 18 sc

Make a sl st, fasten off, and cut the yarn.

Skirt (for a bunny in a dress)

Attach the gray yarn to the body where you changed colors. Make 2 tch.

1: Work into the bases of the stitches on the body, alternating dc / dc inc; sl st at the end of the round
2: 2 tch, alternate dc / dc inc again
3: 2 tch, dc around
4: 2 tch, dc around

Fasten off and weave in the yarn tail. Using regular stitches, I sewed around the seam between the skirt and body with pink yarn to imitate a belt.

Bow

Ch 7 + 1 tch. Starting in the second chain from the hook, work 7 sc to the end of the row. Work three more rows the same way. Remember to ch 1 at the beginning of each row. Work sc evenly around the bow. Fasten off. Wrap the yarn around the center a few times and pull tight, then sew the bow to the side or wherever you like.

Legs (make 2)

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
6-7: 30 sc
8: 9 sc, 6 dec, 9 sc (24)
9: 6 sc, 6 dec, 6 sc (18)
10: 6 sc, 3 dec, 6 dec (15)
11-22: 15 sc (12 rounds)

Stuff the leg, adding very little stuffing at the top so the bunny will be able to sit. Fold the leg in half and crochet the edges together with sc. Leave a long tail for sewing.

Ears (make 2)

Work in turning rows. Remember to make a turning chain at the beginning of each row!

1: ch 2 + 1 tch
2: 2 inc (4)
3: 4 inc (8)
4: 8 sc
5: 1 inc, 6 sc, 1 inc (10)
6: 10 sc
7: 1 inc, 8 sc, 1 inc (14)
8: 12 sc
9: 1 inc, 10 sc, 1 inc (14)
10: 14 sc
11: 1 inc, 12 sc, 1 inc (16)
12-21: 16 sc (10 rows)
22: 1 dec, 12 sc, 1 dec (14)
23-24: 14 sc
25: 1 dec, 10 sc, 1 dec (12)
26-27: 12 sc
28: 1 dec, 8 sc, 1 dec (10)
29-30: 10 sc
31: 1 dec, 6 sc, 1 dec (8)
32-34: 8 sc (3 rows)

Work sc evenly around the ear. Leave a long tail for sewing.

Tail

1: 6 sc in MR
2: (1 sc, inc) x 3 (9)
3: 9 sc

Leave a long tail for sewing. Make eye indentations. Embroider the mouth with black yarn, then embroider the nose with pink yarn.