How to Crochet Bunny Slippers
Crocheted slippers work up quickly and easily in a few hours. If you can crochet in the round, you can crochet a pair of bunny slippers for yourself or someone else. Crochet the slippers in a traditional, ballet slipper style, and then add features to the face and sew on a pair of ears. Your crocheted bunny slippers will be cuter than anything in the store because they were made by hand especially for a loved one.
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Instructions
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Crochet the sole of the slipper. Make a foundation chain of approximately 17 stitches for a medium-sized woman's slipper. To change the size of the slipper, add or subtract stitches from this starting chain. Single crochet in the second chain from the hook and in every chain across; when you get to the final chain, make four single crochet stitches to get to the other side, and single crochet down the opposite side of the beginning chain as well. Make two more single crochet stitches in the first chain, and join with a slip stitch to your first single crochet stitch.
You now have an oval that will form the beginning of your slipper sole.
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Crochet around your starting oval. Make one single crochet stitch in every stitch around, joining each round with a slip stitch from the last single crochet to the first. On your rounds, increase two stitches at every end; in other words, work two single crochet stitches into one stitch on every end (the heel and the toe). Crochet this way for four to five rounds, depending on the size of the slipper you want. This will form the rest of your slipper's sole.
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Crochet up the sides of the slipper. Place a marker in the toe end of your sole; this is the side where you started to crochet. As you crochet the sides, make one single crochet stitch in every stitch around. When you get to the heel end of the oval, decrease one stitch by making a single crochet two together stitch at that end. Repeat this at the toe end, except make two single crochet two together stitches in order to decrease the toe end by two stitches each time. Work this way for approximately eight or nine rounds, or until the slipper fits properly.
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Finish off your work by joining with a slip stitch, then cutting the free end of yarn and weaving it in with a large eye blunt needle. Use scrap yarn in other colors to embroider eyes and a nose onto the toes of each slipper to make a bunny face. Use your large eye blunt needle for the embroidery as well.
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Crochet the bunny ears by starting with a chain stitch of three stitches. Single crochet in the second stitch and the third, then turn your work and single crochet across for two more rows. Increase the stitches by making two single crochet stitches in each stitch, so now you have four stitches across. Continue to single crochet across these rows until your bunny ear is the desired length. Make three more ears just like the first and use your large eye blunt needle and scrap yarn to sew two ears to each slipper.
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Tips & Warnings
If the slipper fits too loosely, weave a length of ribbon or elastic around the top row of single crochet. Sew the elastic or tie the ribbon in a bow on the top of the slipper.
