Minty & Frosty

These are definitely the last of the bunnies.  They are made from hand-dyed blue mohair.  I still can't quite figure out why one has ears which splay out sideways, and the other, ears which go straight up. 

It hasn't been a great day today.  I was going to go on to make mammoths, but I was recently 'liked' on Facebook by a lady who makes (very lovely) patchwork elephants, and I'm worried that when I post pictures of the mammoths I've made, she'll think I took one look at her page and rushed off to copy her idea.  Silly, really.

Anyway, instead I decided to go to a slightly larger design of bear, the 'making' process of which is a little bit more involved.  It's become obvious over the course of the day that it's going to take me more than one day to finish (blast!).  It's one of those designs for which the features are not set in stone, so I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time placing and replacing the ears, the eyes, and everything else, trying to decide how I want him to look.

Not only that, but I'm not entirely sure I have the proportions right for this one. :-(

Last of the cashmere bunnies...

Well, that's the last of the little cashmere rabbits.  They didn't exactly finish on a high unfortunately :-(  (I'm spending waaay too much time on Facebook - I keep adding little smiley faces/sad faces to everything I type!)  The white rabbit in the picture below, Joey, was the last one, and there's something not quite right about him.  I think it's because I didn't add the little white circles behind his eyes - white on white seemed a bit pointless.  He has a very blank expression without them though.

  

Anyway, this was the penultimate cashmere rabbit - Billy.  He turned out well, but he's beige.....

Oh okay, go on then!

:-(

And here is one close-up of Joey.  I didn't think he was so bad until I photographed him - but none of the pictures came out well.

It's not quite the end of the rabbits though.  I have two more to make, but they are going to be made in turquoise mohair!

Gareth & Lloyd

Gareth is the one in the first picture below; Lloyd is the one that leans sideways when standing up(?)  I've no idea how that came about!  

Peta & Paul

These are the rabbits I made on Sunday and Thursday - Peta and Paul.  Is it me or do they look a little malevolent?  I never embroider smiles on my rabbits, because I could never get it to look right, and they do have a sort of curved seam where their mouth would be anyway.  From a distance though, they do look rather serious.

I have quite a few more to make out of cashmere (different colours), and then a few in mohair.  

My mother, in the meantime, is experimenting with neckties for rabbits.  They'll look great if they work out, but I don't envy her the job - they will be tiny, tiny neckties!

Ringo & Timothy

 I still can't show you Wednesday's bear unfortunately - although I can tell you that her name is Daisy.  She is still having her new jacket fitted.  Hopefully, she will be ready before Monday.

In the meantime, I can show you what I was making on Thursday and Friday - two lovely, string-jointed rabbits, in dark red cashmere.  Their ears are jointed too, so they rotate!  I have named these ones Ringo and Timothy.

This is my next design - so I will be making 10 of these.

Next week is going to be rather disrupted unfortunately.  I will hopefully be able to complete another rabbit tomorrow, but I will be working elsewhere on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (and then Saturday, as usual), so it's not going to be the most productive of weeks. :-(

And, flying the pink flag...

Finally finished my two pink rabbits - Strawberry and Russell!  It's difficult to tell them apart, but Russell is the one the label.  I have made each set of rabbits, one with a label and one without, since the gallery at Coggleshall have asked that the bears (or rabbits) I bring have sew-in labels.  The labels are probably a little too big for the rabbit, but I can't do much about that right now.

The next project is actually another rabbit - a commission rabbit - made in a gorgeous blue-green mohair. 

And here is an update on our kitchen extension!

And in the yellow corner...

...it's Bobbin and Stevie!