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Nov17batch

There are still a few bunny tails to sew on but that's my job for this afternoon, so I thought that as time is marching on I'd stop procrastinating and just get on with listing this little batch of mostly finished animals.

The first 10 of them are listed now over on my shop blog where I am selling them via a kind of lottery system. I do this because when I sell the animals on Etsy in timed batches I always get emails from disappointed people who have slow internet connections or who are in time zones that make it difficult for them to be on their computer at the allotted time. Selling 10 of them via random number generator to select a recipient gives everyone a fair and equal chance of buying. The details of how to register your interest in any of the animals are over on the shop blog. Please read the post at the top of the page there as it explains what to do. I'm also going to be listing 6 over on Etsy. Details will be sent just to those who have signed up to my mailing list.

If you do miss out this time round please know that it's not my intention to frustrate or upset. If you feel compelled to write and tell me about your frustrations or disapointment then I will do my best to reply with good grace but I cannot take on special orders because it simply wouldn't be fair to everyone else.

There will be many more animals next year as I want to concentrate on making rather than pattern writing for a few months. When I was little my mum told me not to try and please all of the people all of the time and although that is good advice because it is just not possible to keep everyone happy, I will keep trying my best to keep as many people happy as possible :)

Thanks so much as always for your kindness and for supporting my little business.

Throughout all the ups and downs that life can bring, knitting is always there as a comforting part of my days. Though I might have temporarily misplaced my blog voice I can always find something knitted to share with you, so I thought I'd pop in and show you what has been occupying my needles lately.

Bunnypair

As always there have been bunnies. This pair are mostly knitted from a discontinued ball of Rowan Scottish Tweed in 'porridge' that I had stashed. I love the little brown neps peppered throughout and am feeling rather sad that this is now all used up. Here I paired it with a strand of cream Rowan Kidsilk Haze for fuzziness and used a brown alpaca yarn for contrast.

Yarns do come and go and it's always a bit disappointing when a favourite is discontinued. My favourite yarn for knitting animal clothing has always been Rowan 4ply cotton (which was discontinued years ago) and although I still have a fair amount of it stashed I have been hunting around for a good replacement ever since. Happily I've now found it in BC Garn's Alba. This is a soft, matt, organic cotton yarn (not mercerised) and comes in a beautiful range of colours, some and bright and jewel-like and some muted, subtle tones (which are the ones I like the best). The knitted fabric drapes beautifully and I'm having fun playing with ideas for new dresses in this lovely palette of colours (the blue swatch below is a discontinued Rowan 4ply).

Bcgarn

I bought the colours above from Loop and Love knitting stock some of the colour range.

Clothes

There's also been excitement recently at the arrival of the morning post which in the last two weeks has brought me two wonderful magazines kindly mentioning my work. The first was the June edition of Australian Homespun which had a lovely write up about the cat patterns and the sweaters.

Magazine articles

The second is the current Issue 148 of Simply Knitting which has an interesting article on blogging, featuring interviews with 4 knitting bloggers (of which I was one). It's always a lovely feeling (and a little surreal) to see yourself in print and I'm hugely flattered to have been included in both of these publications.

Well, I'm off to make some breakfast and rouse the rest of the family, who are all still snoozing. See you soon and until then best wishes for a very happy 4th July to all my friends in the USA x

Tag: little cotton rabbits

A little batch of bunnies and friends

knitting constancy