Mad March Hare - Creme Egg Cover

Mad March Hare - Creme Egg Cover by Needles & Pins

What Is Being Made

The Mad March Hare - Creme Egg Cover is a charming knitted toy designed to hold a chocolate Creme Egg inside. This Easter-themed accessory features an adorable hare character with a decorative pompom tail, making it both a functional egg holder and a delightful seasonal gift. The hare's body is constructed to snugly embrace a Creme Egg, combining practicality with festive appeal.

Techniques Used

This project employs intarsia color work to create the hare's distinctive appearance, with the designer instructing knitters to twist yarn when changing colors to prevent holes in the finished fabric. The pattern incorporates decreasing techniques to shape the hare's form, including knit two together and purl two together reductions. The cover is constructed using the seaming method to join pieces together, and finishing involves stuffing the head for dimensional shaping before closure.

Stitches Used

• Knit stitch - used for cast-on and initial shaping rows
• Purl stitch - forms the foundation of the stocking stitch pattern
• Stocking Stitch - the primary fabric construction technique, worked over 15 rows for the main body
• Knit two together (K2tog) - used for decreasing stitches to shape the hare's body
• Purl two together (P2tog) - employed for additional shaping and tapering

Materials Required

This beginner-friendly project requires 4mm knitting needles and DK weight yarn in three colors: tan, cream, and dark brown. Crafters will need small amounts of each color, making this an excellent stash-busting project. Additional materials include a small quantity of toy stuffing for the head, a 1-inch white felt crafting pompom for the tail, and textile glue for securing embellishments. The pattern was published by Needles & Pins and is available as a downloadable PDF format.

Difficulty Level

Rated as a beginner project, the Mad March Hare is accessible to knitters new to color work and toy construction. The straightforward stitch vocabulary and basic shaping techniques make it an ideal introduction to intarsia knitting and small-scale garment assembly.