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crafts & knitting · giveaways

An autumn giveaway

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)2,149 Comments

Back on September 3rd I celebrated my 15th blogging anniversary. In previous years (up until 2018) I have held a little celebratory giveaway of finished animals, but the last few years I’ve been so busy with writing patterns that I’ve not actually managed to fully finish many animals (I’ll show you my rather large collection of unfinished ones another time).

To be honest I have deeply missed the joy of just making, because knitting samples for pattern development and step-by-step photos simply does not hold the same peaceful and relaxing pleasure. At heart I am a maker and making these two animals has given me the most knitting pleasure that I’ve felt for quite some time. I hope that they will also bring pleasure to their new owners, which brings me to announce a giveaway.

 

The Giveaway:

To win either this little black bear or grey rabbit all you need to do is leave a comment below.

You can write anything you like (just the word ‘enter’ is enough) but if you have time, I’d love to hear about something that has brought you some recent pleasure and enjoyment.

Your comment is automatically given a number and on Monday November 15th at 12 noon UK time I’ll close the post to further comments and use a random number generator to pick two numbers from all of the entries.

The first number picked will be the first prize winner who will get to choose between the two animal prizes and the second number picked will win the remaining animal.

 

Here’s a more detail description of the prizes:

The little black bear is knitted from Camarose Snefnug yarn in 7313 and comes with a pair of brown dungarees knitted from Krea deluxe organic cotton shade 53, a little cream blouse knitted in Krea deluxe organic cotton in shade 02, a light brown cardi knitted in hand dyed yarn from the Wool Barn, a scarf knitted in The Uncommon Thread Lush worsted yarn in ‘Belle Epoch’, a cream dress with knitted leaf design and two pairs of shoes; a light brown pair with eyelet detailing and a plain dark brown pair. The extra outfit will be packed in a little tin suitcase from Maileg.

The little grey bunny is knitted in 1 strand of Rowan Alpaca Classic in ‘feather grey melange’ held with 1 strand of Rowan Kidsilk haze and comes with a pair of brown dungarees knitted from Krea deluxe organic cotton in shade 53, a little cream blouse knitted in Krea deluxe organic cotton in shade 02, a light brown cardi knitted in hand dyed yarn from the Wool Barn, a red scarf knitted in Rowan kidsilk haze in ‘ruby’, a brown dress with embroidered toadstools and two pairs of shoes; a red pair with eyelet detailing and a plain brown pair. The extra outfit will be packed in a little tin suitcase from Maileg.

Wooden toadstools, pinecones etc. are not included and are just used in the pictures as props.

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To recap: Leave a comment below to be in with a chance of winning one of these two animals and their assorted clothing (giveaway is now closed). Giveaway closes at 12 noon on Monday 15th November.

Please can I ask, only one comment per person, thanks J x

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The number for the first prize is:

First prize

774
DianeD said…

I would so love to win one of your beautiful animals. They are all sooo gorgeous.

 

 

The number for the second prize is:

Second prize

1674
Norma Bingham said…

Thank you for being so generous with your time and your talent! As I write this, the sun is shining brightly on a very frosty morning. I have my daughter’s dog, Miss Molly, to keep me company today and my favourite local radio station playing in the background. My joy comes from counting the many blessings I have in my life right now. I wish you much joy in return.

crafts & knitting

Autumnal influences

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)66 Comments

Last week was the college half term break here, so there was lots of time spent with Toby walking in the woods. Autumn is definitely here now, with its cold breezes, crunchy leaves underfoot and toadstools everywhere. It was fascinating to see the same patch of toadstools visibly growing each day as we passed by them on our same route through the wood and I’m looking forward to getting out there on my own with my camera later in the week (Toby gets most miffed if I stop to take pictures on our walks together).

Back at home my knitting has been influenced by autumn too and I’m spending most of this week finishing off this little black bear and grey bunny ready for a giveaway. They’ll both be wearing autumnal clothes and I’ve had fun playing around with a duplicate stitched design for some toadstools on the skirt of one of the dresses. I’ve made a free chart for the toadstools that you can download here, Download Toadstool chart

I’ve also made a little blouse with a collar to go under a pair of dungarees. I made this by combining the bottom of the camisole that you can find in my free ‘Sundress supplement’ pattern with the bodice from my ‘Textured dresses’ pattern. Simply cast on and work up to row 19 from the camisole in the Sundress pattern for the 9 inch animals, and then work from row 1 of the bodice pattern on page 3 in the Textured dresses pattern.

I’ll be back soon with pictures of these two finished animals and details of how you can enter to win one of them – it will be a random number generated draw.

Hope the rest of your week goes well. We’re having a good one here and celebrating Amy’s new job as a special needs teaching assistant – we’re really proud of her as she embarks on life after full time education and embraces all of the responsibilities of working life.

See you soon xx

 

 

crafts & knitting · new patterns

Koalas :)

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)23 Comments

Hello again, we’re getting comfy with new routines here and I’m very happy to say that Toby has exceeded all of our expectations and has settled well at his new college. He’s now had 2 full weeks and has already started to get used to the rhythm of the days. All of which is such a huge relief, I was so very nervous about this big step for him and based on previous experience I’d really not expected it to go as well as it has.

With Toby sorted, I’m starting to get myself sorted out too and into work time routines and I’ve just finished off 3 new patterns that have been in my workbasket for most of this year.

There are 2 patterns for Koalas:

  • one which comes with a naked body and a removable outfit that includes 2 sweaters and a pair of shorts;
  • and the other which comes with knitted on shoes and knickers and a choice of 2 removable dresses.

I’ve also got a new sweater pattern that has one basic shape (with plain stocking stitch back and sleeves) and has 6 different options for the front design. They’re available now on both

Ravelry and Etsy

 

Finally, because I’m celebrating my 15th anniversary of starting my blog, I’m offering a 25% discount on all of my patterns from today until the end of September – this is available on all patterns on both (sorry it’s now expired)

To keep the 15th anniversary celebration of starting my blog going I will also be having an animal giveaway soonish, but I need to take some photos for that, so I’ll keep you posted with details when those are done.