A good cause

November 23, 2009May 3, 2026 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)12 Comments

I wanted to write about a very special auction that is taking place at the moment on Mia’s blog. Mia makes the most gorgeous little bears which come with lots of beautiful extras like additional outfits, snacks and their own little toys.

She’s just finished this very special little bear called Mai and she’s auctioning her off to raise funds for a very special centre in Vilnius, Lithuania. If you pop over you can read all about the aims of the centre and their work with autistic children. There are very limited facilities and support available to autistic children and their families in this area and so every little bit helps. Please pop by Mia’s blog and read her post, her auction finishes on November 25th.

I’d like to do a little bit to help too and so my little contribution will be Perlina.

She’ll be for sale via my Etsy shop in a day or two and all of the money from her sale will be donated to buy materials for the centre. Update: I’ll pop her into my Etsy shop early next week along with a few others that I’m just finishing off.

crafts & knitting

finishing off some bits…

November 19, 2009May 3, 2026 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)42 Comments

This week has been a bit manic as I’ve tried to finish off some of those projects I have on the go. I have managed to finish a couple of hedgehogs that have been hanging around for a while. I thought it might be a nice touch to sell a few as ready made pincushions and it seemed appropriate to make some little leaf toppers for the pins.

If you fancy giving them a go here’s what I did: used a couple of frosted shrinkle sheets and hand drew some leaves, coloured them with pencils and punched a hole in them. Then I shrank them in the oven and shaped them with a slight curl before they cooled and hardened. I’ve threaded a ball-topped pin through each hole to hopefully look like berries – I can’t decide just yet whether to glue the leaves and pins together.

I’ve also been making more hedgie families by knitting my hedgehog pattern with different yarns – chunky for the largest on 4.5mm needles, DK yarn on 3mm needles for the middlesized one and 4ply yarn on 2.25mm needles for the tiniest.

I still haven’t finished those gloves but hopefully the weather won’t be turning too cold just yet!

general stuff

thanks for entering

November 16, 2009May 3, 2026 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)17 Comments

Thanks to everyone who took the time to leave such kind comments on the calendar competition below. I’m sorry that there can only be 3 winners. The random number generator has been used again and has drawn the following:

77: Please include me! Your animals are so cute and cheery-uppy! xx Alfie
Posted by:
Avril Greenhow Parker |
November 10, 2009 at 03:00 PM

125: Awww!! Your calender is gorgeous Julie! How lovely would it be to look at those adorable little faces every day!
Posted by:
Katie |
November 10, 2009 at 06:33 PM

204: So cute!! I love your work and the calendar is adorable!!! Thanks for the chance to win! Posted by:
darcyb |
November 11, 2009 at 06:43 AM

I’ll be sending your copies of the calendars out as soon as I hear back from you with postal addresses.

We’ve been lucky here ourselves recently with the arrival of another wonderful package in the post. This one has traveled all the way from the lovely Jen of Frazzydazzles in Australia. Jen and I have become friends via our blogs over the last few years and have found we have a lot in common. It’s such fun to swap with someone who likes the same kind of things and I couldn’t resist sharing all of our gorgeous goodies.

Amy is very much in love with Beryl the Bilby and we’ve really enjoyed reading the beautiful book – it’s such a sweet story. I love my little spotty teaspoon holder and the yarn is going to make some lovely bunny clothes. Jen also included some really cute stickers and two beautiful bells for our Christmas tree. Didn’t we do well?!