finishing off some bits…

November 19, 2009 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, 2009 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 travelled 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?!

a diary for your dates and a giveaway

November 10, 2009 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)420 Comments

Over the last couple of weeks I've had a lot of fun sorting through images of some of my favourite little cotton rabbits and putting them into a calendar for 2010. I'm going to be giving some of these to my friends and family at Christmas time but I thought I'd also make the calendar available to buy for those of you who'd like a copy.

You can preview or purchase it here over at the very excellent Redbubble.

If you've thought yourself of doing a calendar, greeting cards or T shirts with your own images then I'd definitely recommend Redbubble. Their print and paper quality are great (my photos don't do them justice thanks to a murky day!) and their prices are good compared to other online print companies. They also have a great range of existing designs for cards and calendars to buy from some very talented artists and photographers.

Anyway, I thought I'd have a little giveaway to celebrate my own little calendar launch and I have 3 copies to send out to winners. If you'd like to be in with a chance of winning one please leave a comment below and next Monday (November 16th) I'll draw the 3 winners at random.

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