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In cute news
Months ago, I wandered into the craft items shop in Canterbury (it's a fairly basic place, that moves around empty units in the shopping centre) and saw some very cute tartan stuffed rabbits. I very nearly bought one, but couldn't quite justify spending £40 on one.
A few days later, I was at the quilting show and one of the dealers was selling kits to make your own, almost identical, stuffed tartan rabbit, for £15. So I bought one.
And then it was New Year, and I needed a hand-sewing project for sitting around and chatting time, so I cut the pieces and did some of it. I've been intermittently working on it since, usually while watching Sherlock and often while swearing at the instructions*.
This evening, in a spirit of Keeping Busy, I finally finished him off, and I'm quite pleased:
* The instructions were very odd. Actually, the whole kit was very odd: there was about twice as much fabric as was needed, carefully cut into pieces you were supposed to use for the different bits of the pattern; the order of doing things was all over the place and made some bits much harder to do than was necessary (as you were doing them after it was stuffed when they could have been done with it flat); and the instructions specified that you should sew the glass beads on as eyes after stuffing but the eyes that came in the kit were those two-part safety ones that you have to have access to both sides of the fabric to put in....). On the plus side, I scanned and re-printed the pattern rather than use the one that came with, and hey: I've got enough fabric left over to make another one!
A few days later, I was at the quilting show and one of the dealers was selling kits to make your own, almost identical, stuffed tartan rabbit, for £15. So I bought one.
And then it was New Year, and I needed a hand-sewing project for sitting around and chatting time, so I cut the pieces and did some of it. I've been intermittently working on it since, usually while watching Sherlock and often while swearing at the instructions*.
This evening, in a spirit of Keeping Busy, I finally finished him off, and I'm quite pleased:
* The instructions were very odd. Actually, the whole kit was very odd: there was about twice as much fabric as was needed, carefully cut into pieces you were supposed to use for the different bits of the pattern; the order of doing things was all over the place and made some bits much harder to do than was necessary (as you were doing them after it was stuffed when they could have been done with it flat); and the instructions specified that you should sew the glass beads on as eyes after stuffing but the eyes that came in the kit were those two-part safety ones that you have to have access to both sides of the fabric to put in....). On the plus side, I scanned and re-printed the pattern rather than use the one that came with, and hey: I've got enough fabric left over to make another one!