Mini Bunny Rug

I first attempted to knit a bunny rug last year with some soft fluffy yarn. As a new knitter who only know how to knit and purl before this project, I had to learn a number of new knitting techniques like how to increase stitches by knitting front and back, as well as "make one". I also had to find out how to add stitches in front of a knitted row, and how to decrease at the beginning of a row. It was all good until I DROPPED A STITCH...

My gosh! It was so hard trying to find the dropped stitch amongst all those fluff!! I ended up pulling out all the stitches in frustration and decided to try a crochet version instead, but it was still too hard for me to see where I should put my crochet hook into amongst the fluff! I had no choice but to give up on using this yarn and try something else which was much easier for me to work with.

I was quite pleased when I found a bamboo & cotton blend yarn from the same local craft store that comes in several nice colour mix. It was much easier working with this yarn and I was able to whip up a crocheted bunny rug in no time! :)

For the bunny head, I used Crest-a-lon fibre filling which is supposed to be "resilient, washable & non-allergic". It was a little tricky trying to embroider the eyes and nose on to the crocheted face.

My very first crocheted bunny rug.

A new bunny rug completed last night.

I have also bought the blue mix of the same bamboo/cotton blend yarn and would try it out with the same crocheted bunny rug pattern when I'm done with my dozen or so WIP. :P

Which bunny rug do you think looks better; the red/orange mix or the pink/green mix?