Bunny Love
Palette
Bunny Love: A Heart-Filled Knitting Colorwork Design
About the Design
This chart brings together three sweet bunny faces flanked by pastel hearts, set above a deep royal blue field with smaller blue hearts and flower motifs stitched into a soft pink background below. The mirrored layout gives the piece a cheerful, symmetrical rhythm that suits a blanket panel, cushion front, or a sweater yoke where a repeating motif reads clearly from a distance.
Skill Level and Time
Rated advanced, this colorwork chart spans a 40 by 72 stitch grid, totaling 2,880 stitches across the full design. Expect to spend around 32 hours bringing the piece to life, since the frequent color changes per row and the precise shaping of the bunny ears and heart curves call for steady tension and careful color management from start to finish.
Palette and Materials
Worked in five colors, black, white, red, royal blue, and medium violet, the palette leans into a classic winter-meets-Valentine mood, pairing deep blue with rosy pink and crisp white accents. Stranded colorwork or intarsia both suit this chart, though stranding tends to work best for the smaller motifs like the bunny faces and hearts, while intarsia can help manage the larger blue and pink blocks without excess yarn carrying across the back of the fabric.