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Hi all, so I am working on the SnB Nation bunny hat.
Tha pattern has you knit the bunny ears in pieces. The outer piece in the main color and and inner piece in pink. Then it instructs you to attach the inner ear to the outer ear using the blanket stitch. I'm unclear how to use this stich in a functional way (ie to connect the 2 separate pieces). I think of the blanket stitch more as a decorative stich. Would someone walk me through this? Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks.

It is also called the buttonhole stitch, applique stitch etc. http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa120702.htm?nl=1 are some great directions with pictures to do it. You can of course just sew them together, like you mentioned it is more of a decorative look.

Wow, knitsah -- you got as far as the ears?!!! I am also TRYING to do this adorable bunny hat, but am having a
terrible time understanding the pattern.

I am on my third try (rip-it, rip-it said the knitting frog) -- for just the first part, with the ear flaps.

Would you mind sharing any tips? Specifically, I don't know
whether, when I do the K 21 and w&t, K to the end, do I
knit just 20 stitches on the following row, w&t again, or do
I knit all the way across the piece (44 CO st?)???

Any help is much appreciated!!! My new granddaughter will
be too old for the hat at the rate I'm going!

MANY THANKS!!!

It's the former - you keep working one less stitch in the ear flap until you have reached 8 stitches that are being actively knit. It's only at that point that you knit across making sure that you pick up the wraps around the stitches that form the edges of the short-row section and knit them together with the stitches that were wrapped - otherwise you'll get holes in your knitting.

This short-row tutorial might help (she demonstrates the wrapped stitch short-row used in the pattern):
http://nonaknits.typepad.com/nonaknits/2005/04/wrapped_stitch_.html

When I knit this pattern, I actually knit the ears in the round using modified colour stranding and liked the result much better than the original. A google search on intarsia in the round will probably turn up useful information on 2 colour knitting in the round.

Oh thank you, thank you, thank you! That is
a HUGE help! And I will check out the tutorial,
as well. Knit on, sister!