I have bunnies on the mind because the Hazelnuts bunny tutorial was posted up on Craft Gossip Felting and generated a bit of traffic and a few emails from lovely people who wanted to print the pattern but couldn't. I love it when people want to make the bunny! They deserve to multiply like, well, rabbits! The rabbits, not the people. Unless they want to.
Then in the hunt for the pattern for the giraffes we saw yesterday I came across this gorgeous jackalope over at Girl Savage
and I was struck by the similarity of the pattern which is so neat! I mean, the idea behind the basic pattern is the same but they turn out so differently. I used to think that my bunnies were like some unknown thing which is why I made up the pattern, but I kind of like finding out that they're from a genre*. So I've decided to keep track of the genre, of bunnies that remind me of my bunny. The clincher on this were the bunnies from Chez Beeper Bebe that turned up in my Reader earlier today. Ohhhh, wookit da widdle bunny!
The heads don't really qualify them for the genre, but the bums definitely do!
I'm so tempted to get my bunny down on all fours too, the tail is just so sassy!
And of course the bonus of these two lots of bunnies that you can buy them and don't have to make them yourself. I'm beginning to appreciate the wonder of that more and more (in theory if not in practice but I'm working on it!)
* I was reminded of the book Knuffle Bunny Too where Trixie sees Sonja with another bunny and "suddenly her one-of-a-kind Knuffle Bunny wasn't so one-of-a-kind after all".
Your bunny rabbits are really cute!
ReplyDeleteMany years ago I made felt squirrels with a pattern very similar to yours - I wonder where both the pattern and squirrels went... they had a long fluffy tail, so cute!
I love Knuffle Bunny!!! Both books were a favorite bedtime story for the longest time!
Lovin' all the bunnies!!
ReplyDeleteWhy do you say "Rabbits, rabbits, rabbits", and is it only on the first day of the month to bring luck? Is that a Canadian thing?
ReplyDeleteI think it's British in origin, though why rabbits I have no idea! I should
ReplyDeletelook it up. I guess it's the same thing with lucky rabbit feet, there must
be something about rabbits being lucky?
still like the original bunny best! and loved the custom bunny you made for me for my music group.
ReplyDeleteOoooo squirrels...I have a real thing for squirrels. If you ever find the
ReplyDeletepattern again I'd be so excited!
Knuffle Bunny Too is still my favourite bedtime book, even if it isn't
Hazel's! I love Mo Willem's turn of phrase, some of the lines in his books
are so gorgeous. My brother lives in that area of Brooklyn so when they do
the exchange in the middle of the night we always tell Hazel that she's been
to that spot, even though she doesn't remember it specifically.
He was a good bunny. Sometimes I wonder if I should have given him the
ReplyDeleteeyelids so they could customise the mood.
I love the photo with all the bun buns touching! I found the bunny via Craft Gossip as well and it worked fine for me. He is such a cutie! I'll be linking to him if you don't mind.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely don't mind a link from your site :)
ReplyDeletelook what I came accross! a squirrel! and a pattern no less - don't you think he fits the genre? http://wewilsons.blogspot.com/2010/05/squirrel.html
ReplyDeletehaha, and then I scroll down the page and find a photo of your bunny! so perhaps you have met him already?
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