This design is ©1996 and 2001 by Kim Salazar. It was adapted from a design appearing in Maria Foris, Charted Folk Designs for Cross Stitch Embroidery, Dover, 1975. Please see the copyright note at the end of the pattern. This pattern was originally shared with the KnitList - (a knitting-oriented mailing list).

In honor of a long running KnitList chat on number theory in knitting design, here are Fibonacci Bunnies. Feel free to multiply them to your heart's content.

One Bunny A = 18 units tall x 23 units wide
One Bunny B = 18 units tall x 19 units wide

Note that Bunny A is an "end rabbit," his tail is different from Bunny B. You can build these into a long string by endlessly repeating Bunny B. Omit the red squares at the extreme right hand end of the chart for the rightmost Bunny B, and you'll make a clean end of the pattern to match the clean left edge of Bunny A. For example, if you want to have a row of four bunnies, you would use one Bunny A, and three Bunny Bs - omitting the red units from the graph for the rightmost Bunny B. Adding one plain column of units after Bunny A's rump and before the rightmost Bunny B's nose, I get a total width count of 1 + 23 + 3(19) + 1 = 82 units.

I did this design twice - once in navy and white, and once in pink and white. The navy and white was a yoke style cardigan for a four year old, with the bunnies circling the shoulders, and scattered "dots" of single white stitches in the sweater body. The pink and white was for a newborn. I ran alternating bands of left facing and right facing bunnies for the entire cardigan (separated with a two-stitch box check), alternating the foreground and background colors on each rank of bunnies.

Source: I adapted these from a pattern published in Dover's Charted Folk Designs for Cross Stitch Embroidery by Maria Foris, ©1975. Foris cites the original as being from the Jugendstil region of Southern Germany.