Three bunny day

This was a craptastic weekend. And when there's nothing to be done about the situation you are in it is best to keep doing something to keep from stewing... So I made bunnies. All day.
Their cuteness lightened my mood considerably, and I got a few questions resolved about style.

This is Marie. A few of the hankies I have been picking up are to small to yield all the parts to make a bunny, so I wanted to be sure that it would look ok if I used a complimentary fabric on the bellies.


Yup, cute!


When I was making Hillary, I put the ears on by sticking them in the head seam, and I wanted to know how well this translated to a Hankie Bunny. It's ok, but I think the kinda sucky side-of-the-head insertion is going to be the way to go...


Yup, this is definitely still cute! This bunny has no name yet, I will let the girl I am giving this to name her.


Some of the hankies I have been picking up are very thin and I wanted to see what would happen if it was not lined with muslin.


This is Alice. She turned out OK, I had to draw on the eyes because the black floss would have shown through too much.


I think I will line the thin ones with muslin, it was kinda tricky to cut and piece this bunny because the fabric was so stretchy.

So three more bunnies to the stack and I have progress on the American Hero quilt to make...

Thanks for checking in with me!

Red, White and BUNNY!

This is a departure from the hankies I have been using for the bunny making hobby.
I had a charm pack of Red White and Bold from Moda to use on something and had this idea. It was a lot of extra stitching, but I will do it again, I already have another name picked out...
This patchwork patriot is a nice little bunny.


You can just see her stripey belly...


Like a carousel horse, she is more heavily decorated on one side, her left side in this case.
I chose to use my new crazy quilting skills(?) for the decoration, but I should have used a higher contrast thread...


The other side and her ears are just stitched with a simple running stitch.


So, this little girl is my favorite so far, but not by much.
I have names for four more bunnies lined up, the name usually comes to me as soon as I see the material.
Read into it what you will but this one is named Hillary.

And Around we go!

Sue's block arrived this week and I was all ready and fired up to work on it!

Here it is nekkid.

Then the hard choices to make... which way is up? What theme should I start, if any?What blocks to work on? and on and on... I had to sleep on it and just start it in the morning.

I started with this velvet corner, sketching with my trusty quilter's pencil and laying out some cording.


Them for some reason I switched to the opposite corner and stitched a vine. I added the berries a few days later.


Here is the top block and the full patch completed.

And a close up of the little girl dreaming in her garden, or of her garden, like I do since I don't have one...


The patch took a couple of tries, I tried to incorporate beads into it but it looked pretty bad so I ripped them off and stuck to embroidery.

It is now all packaged up and ready to be sent to Pam in Australia.
My first work on someone else's block... check that off the list and sit back and wait for another one to arrive next month!
Hope everyone approves!

Violet

Ingrid has a friend.
I finished Violet while I was waiting for my round robin block to arrive in the mail.
She is made of another vintage hankie, but since it was printed I didn't line her with muslin like I would for an embroidered hankie, so she is a bit floppier and softer.


Her ears are nicely ruffled but not stiff like Ingrid's.


The all over pattern of the hankie made small details possible, like this little rosebud on her tail...


And a nice stripe up her belly.

She is just as cute as Ingrid. My next bunny shounld be in a day or so once I have already finished my RR block and the tea towels have the trim ready to be stitched... More pictures of those in a while. Maybe tomorrow.

TIF Crazy Quilt block

This month's Take It Further Challenge theme was noticing the small things.
Here is the color scheme.


It is due to my entomology classes from college, but when I think of small things, they are almost always bugs. I also happened to be perusing Sharon B's 100 details right before the challenge was posted so I was already in CQ thinking mode. Luckily enough, Purple was one of the colors for the challenge, so I decided to embellish my first CQ block.


Here is the whole block. I'm going to call it "Going Buggy".


I put a few jokes in it, like the grasshopper jumping with a pogo stick...
You can't really see them in black, but there are my first miserable attempts at ribbon embroidery.


A pair of lovebugs


Buttons for the sake of buttons, experimenting with a different embellishing style than I'm used to...



My cute spider took a couple of tries to get right. She is holding a tiny little rhinestone flower.


She has time to smell the flowers, as you can see she already has dinner wrapped up in her web...
(practicing my bullion stitch)


So that's it! My first block. I'm glad I'm done with it. I will have to sketch out my designs next time instead of free handing them all, so they won't look so sloppy.

Ahhhhhh

Four hours, one big cup of coffee, one charm pack and a yard of fabric and no boys in the house!

I had a great morning! I got two projects completed!
Since I had no boys, I got really girly with the crafting


I altered this little tin box with fabric and trim for a present for Mae. I may copy this idea for when I open my Etsy shop (eventually).
And I will never again doubt the power of super cute trim to finish a project!
A little velvet trimmed lace goes a long way!


And to put into the box I am totally stealing an idea that was presented when i learned to make yoyo's.

These little pretties are just the right size for a little girl or for her dollies when she gets bigger.


The Butterfly clips turned out particularly well, IMHO!


Here you can see one on my cutting mat, and how tiny they really are!



I also got another important crafty project finished!
I made a cover for the sewing machine.


It doesn't look like much, but if it keeps Jimmy's little fingers off of the machine until we have a house that has a space I can claim as my own and shut the door on it, this will have to do!

Now I 'm off to make some needle books and start my TIF challenge piece before the boys come home!

One set of towels almost done!

I finally finished one complete set of dish towels for myself.
Well, almost finished. I want to be cool like Posie, but I'm not nearly cool enough to make my own tape, so I ordered some off the web and will attach it when it gets here! And then you get to look at these towels again!
Here's the set. You may see some of the days still on there, but they will wash out eventually! I didn't do the days of the week as dictated by the pattern, because I'm anal and would want to be using the right towel on the right day and that's just too much pressure for towels.. But that's just me... and yes, I am aware that they need to be ironed...

The purple combo is straight off of another set of these towels I did as a gift.

I like the green, too. It looks like a little cottage even more to me in the green.


For Camas, just because it's bright and orange...


It's the Tripler towel...


Yes, I know you've seen this one before, but completeness demands showing it again.


This one too!



This towel came prestained. It is quite possibly the favorite thing I've made in a while...
I just love when I'm working on a project that gives me the giggles.
I added a little something to the pattern.


Make that two little somethings.


I showed it to Jimmy and he said "It looks just like our family!"