Posey the Bunny Lovey

Posey the Bunny Lovey by Sarah Truesdell

What is Being Made

Posey the Bunny Lovey is a crocheted stuffed toy bunny designed by Sarah Truesdell. This beginner-friendly project creates a soft, cuddly companion featuring a blanket-style body measuring 28 cm x 28 cm with an attached head that has a circumference of 30 cm. The finished lovey combines a decorative fan-stitch blanket body with a rounded head, embroidered facial features, and dimensional ears and paws, making it an ideal handmade gift for infants and young children.

Techniques Used

This crochet pattern employs fundamental techniques suitable for beginners. The construction uses basic chain stitches to establish foundation rows, with increases and decreases created through strategic stitch placement. The blanket body is worked using a repeating fan-stitch pattern that creates visual texture and interest. Stuffing and shaping techniques are used to give the head and body dimensional form. The pattern includes embroidery work for facial details, requiring a tapestry needle to add personalized expression to the finished bunny using black cotton yarn.

Stitches Used

• Double crochet (dc): Forms the primary structure and creates the decorative fan elements throughout the blanket body
• Single crochet (sc): Used for joining and creating transitions between fan sections
• Chain stitch (ch): Establishes the foundation and creates spacing within the fan-stitch pattern
• Embroidery stitches: Applied with black cotton yarn to embroider facial features onto the finished head

Materials and Tools

Posey the Bunny Lovey requires worsted-weight yarn in two colors. Color A (blanket body and ear tips) requires 280 meters (160 grams) of yarn, while Color B (head, paws, and ears) requires 190 meters (110 grams). The sample was created using Lion Brand Comfy Cotton Blend in the "chai latte" colorway. Additional materials include polyfil or similar polyester fiberfill for stuffing, a small amount of black cotton yarn for embroidering facial details, stitch markers for tracking pattern repeats, a tapestry needle for seaming and embroidery work, scissors, and two crochet hooks—a 5 mm hook for the main body and a 4.5 mm hook for finer details. The gauge is 4 double crochet fans and 11 rows measured over a 10 cm (4") square when worked with the 5 mm hook.