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weekend puttering

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Actually, weekends don’t really mean much around here since neither of us goes out to work. But, this is what I did yesterday-

I am working on flesh tones for cotton. I had a recipe that I liked, using Rit Dyes, but they discontinued one of the colors (Peach) and so now I am figuring it all out again. This is frustrating- not like when I don’t really care what color I get, as long as it is clear and bright. I will do some of that sort of dyeing soon- it is great fun!

I started a new rabbit. It is made of a felted alpaca sweater- which clearly still has a lot of stretch. I can’t believe the difference between the woven wool and the knitted alpaca! Yes, they are cut from the same pattern.

new bunny

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Here is one of the things that didn’t quite get finished in time for the show last weekend.

bunny

face

back

tail

I had him all ready to photograph with his blue vest and then decided he absolutely needed a bowtie. Yes, some of these dolls have very strong fashion preferences.

and a bunny

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I had a hard time staying on task while I worked on the kitty pattern. One distraction was that voice telling me- Hey! If you just change one thing, you could go in some completely different direction! Hey! Wouldn’t that be much more fun! Hey! LISTEN TO ME!

Usually I quiet that voice by listening to audiobooks- which somehow manage to busy up that brain chatter and I can focus on what I am doing. But, I couldn’t work on the pattern and listen to audiobooks…

I had to make a drawing or even a pattern and tell myself- I will get to that when the pattern is finished. Well, the kitty pattern is with some testers and now I can consider that pile of ideas. Yesterday I sewed up this bunny. I love him. He seems to be a no clothes bunny. No clothes I tried made him look better then no clothes at all- if that makes any sense.

bunny

bunny2

The tail has a white underside- and the sweater I cut it from was 50% rabbit hair- how could I resist!

tail

bunnyface

sofa

I am trying to finish up some random unfinished dolls that have been waiting for a while. It’s that time of year. It will mean that I’ll be posting an odd mix of things for a little bit.