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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Bunny love

This is a belated present to welcome a friend's second baby into the world.  It is not the hand made gift I had intended for her but I am sure she will be pleased with it.  
Gift number one was going to be the kimono top from Weekend Sewing.  It was a fated project from the start.  I had decided to use an old pair of my girls pyjamas which were made from beautifully soften flannel. Hours of painstaking unpicking yielded just enough fabric with a few added joins, then I cut the pattern out wrong. Agghh!  After more painstaking jiggery pokery I managed to make good, but this little top had more seams than sense.  I still maintain the instructions were not clear...Nevertheless I ploughed on as I had invested so many hours in it already. Anyway, cut a long boring story short another hitch further down the line meant I had to abort.  I will save the fabric for another day..
So here comes bunny...The pattern is from Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts.  Yes, I did end up buying this book, and I'm thrilled with it. I am a Martha Stewart convert!!  It was really easy to follow and I made up bunny in a few hours last night.  I used lovely soft flannel scraps that I had, the spotty was from Joann's and pink fabric Ann Marie Horner. 





Doesn't it look like a bunny ready for some love?

3 comments:

  1. Oh my god, the traumas of that kimono sound all to familair...My friend tried to make one from Amy Butler's Little Stitches for little ones and had some very similar sounding issues...Such a nightmare when you cut the pattern wrong though...I shall look forward to meeting this bunny in the flesh! Martha is a legend is she not?? Her website is also brilliant for printables and so much is free...

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  2. good tip, I shall check out the website

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