crafts & knitting

Urban wildlife

I may have said goodbye to a hedgehog yesterday but my garden is still popular with the local urban wildlife. Just after breakfast this morning I looked out and spotted two foxes frolicking in the autumn leaves!

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Maybe Herbert has spread the word about this garden having a good source of munchies. I don’t expect them to stick around for long though – these two will probably be travelling via royal mail as they’ll be popping up in my shop with the next batch of toys.

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A quick Herbert update: he’s definitely still around – I heard snuffling in the bushes late last night and this morning it looks like he’s pulled some of the extra bedding I’d left scattered around into his little house.

56 thoughts on “Urban wildlife

  1. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssssssssse;-) Give out, just one pattern;-) So we all can hold on just one little cotton rabbit;-))) Oh, Julie, they are really great!!! Sigh.

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  2. First of all well done on the fantastic job you’ve all done on Herbert Sherbert. He did look a very healthy hoggy by the time you’d fattened him up.
    Fancy having foxes too – they look so tame xx

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  3. your foxes, rabbits, monkeys (…)are very, very, very (I should put a lot of “very” to be near the true) wonderful. Simply, I love your blog.
    (Excuse my english, I speak better in french ^^!!)

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  4. Wow! All of your animals are simply fantastic – the best knit toys I have ever seen. I wish you had the time to put together all of your patterns for a book so that I could get started on making a menagerie of my own.

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  5. Oh, oh, oh…I LOVE THEM…so, so, so!
    Bring on the sale Julie, my fingers are warmed up and ready to bid, and I feel lucky!
    A Bear, a Rabbit, a Panda or a Fox. Or maybe a Monkey with cute little socks!
    Yes…I’ve had too much coffee today!

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  6. Every piece you create is simply gorgeous. I just wish that I could take every one of them home. Congratulations on having such an incredible talent. You simply amaze me.

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  7. I’m so glad to hear that Herbert is doing well. He’s lucky to have you to watch over him. What a cutie he is!
    I just LOVE those little foxes. You just never cease to amaze me! You’re so talented.

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  8. I’ve been waiting for ages to see if you were ever going to finish the foxes. They are so very much worth the wait! Now I know I’ve been very lucky, what with 3 bunnies and a Monkee, but I really do need a fox now Julie!

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  9. Oh! I so hope Herbert will spend the winter with you! You were obviously a fabulous hedgie mommy :0)
    Sweet little foxies, too! They will be adopted in a blink!

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  10. Hi Julie, I think you are amazing! I don’t know how you sqeeze so much cuteness into your little bunnies, and now foxes too! What’s next? Love your blog!

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  11. Oh Julie, I saw just the little foxes heads in progress on Ravelry. How absolutely adorable they’ve turned out! I love the blue clothes on them with the rusty fur color of the foxes bodies. You are truly so gifted, what a treasure it has been finding your blog 🙂

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  12. I am never going to get one of your darling little friends….:( I really hope I can get one next time. I just adore your work! I am bound and determined to own several of your little friends!

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  13. The foxes are adorable and I’m so pleased that Herbert Sherbert has hung around, you and your family have done an excellent job at raising him for hibernation.

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  14. Hi there. I have been searching very long for a cup cake pattern and been unable to find one here (in sweden). I would very, very much like to have one – any possibility at all that you´d share yours with me?
    //V

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  15. It seems to have been some kind of problem leaving comments since I wrote this one:
    Hi there. I have been searching very long for a cup cake pattern and been unable to find one here (in sweden). I would very, very much like to have one – any possibility at all that you´d share yours with me?
    But it looks like Carolyn wrote it. Very strange in deed….
    http://www.vildangel.blogg.se

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  16. I found your blog from littlejennywren.blogspot.com!
    Your little knitted toys are adorable!
    If I had money to spend I’d buy one! (I’m only 15 years old) :o)
    You’ve got talent girl!

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  17. Was watching Rupert Bear this morning with my two – have you ever thought of knitting a badger – I think it might work – just a slightly longer face maybe? 😀

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