Ten Ten Ten

To celebrate the tenth of the tenth of the tenth today, I made a wabbit ten times the size of other wabbits. Please meet Pumpkin.

Pumpkin enjoys all things Texan, i.e. rocking in outdoor rocking chairs, drinking iced tea, watching the Spurs play basketball, and being larger than wabbits of other states.

And in case you were wondering just how big a weally big wabbit is, here you can see that he towers over Bella. She's made no attempt to chew off one of his arms yet. I think she's worried he'd fight back.

Yes, a four-foot flannel wabbit called Pumpkin. That's what I did with my spare minutes today. So, if there are no more posts on here, then you'll know: the men in white coats finally came for me...

Tilly's Play Mat, and a Big Bottomed Beaver

Before I even had time to show you the fabric I had piled up for my next project, it was finished! I definitely think I've caught the quilting bug. This is a little play mat for the baby:

The pattern was from Lotta's Simple Sewing for Baby, again, and really was just as simple as promised! One of these days, I'll learn to cut in a straight line, but until then, I'm enjoying the 'handmadeness' of it all!

A little pocket in one of the corners, for an emergency cloth, or a Wupert Wabbit:

And, I couldn't resist dressing Fatty McBeaver up in one of my cute-cute-completely-cute cloth nappies and having her model. Hopefully Tilly's teeth will come in a bit straighter than poor Beaver's!

Oh, and when I showed it to Justin, he pointed to one of the squares of my favourite spotty batik fabric, and said "Oh no, the colour got all messed up in the wash!"

Um... I guess the batik look isn't for everyone!

A New Wabbit

As Wodger Wabbit was such a success, I went ahead and sewed a pom-pomless version for new baby Tilly. This wabbit has a little bow tie, which is delightfully (and accidentally) wonky! I think I'll call him Wupert Wabbit.

Here he is with Bella:

And with Grendal, my mean, green sewing machine:

Wupert is just silly enough to make me smile after a very rough day. Well, him plus a hot cup of honey and lemon and a large Milky Way!

I've finally come down with something... yesterday it was a sore throat, and today it's a rather disgusting cough. All the tea in Texas hasn't done much for me, yet, but now that I've picked up some lemons, hopefully it'll start to go away.

Happily, I've got a stash of Asda cough drops from last summer... there's just something about the taste of British medicines! They're still not enjoyable, but they're familiar, and that feels nice right now!

The Tale of Wodger Weginald Wabbit

I've been having such fun with Wodger Wabbit all day, and he's been begging me to write a story about him.

So far, he's told me that he's the littlest in a litter of twenty rabbits.

He has ten brothers: Wandolph, Wupert, Wemington, Wichard, Woland, Wonald, Wobert, Wadcliff, and Wafferty.

And nine sisters: Webecca, Wamona, Waphaella, Wose, Whonda, Wowena, Woberta, Wosanna, Wosalind, and Wuth.

When his siblings were mean to him, he ran away and made his home in the first warm place he found: an Ugg boot.

Which is where he stayed, until discovered by a passing Mr. Monkey and Fatty McBeaver, who took him in and became his friends.

What silliness! Wodger is really excited to get posted today, and is writing a little letter to Alice at the moment to introduce himself. Hopefully, he'll share it when it's done.

Wodger Weginald Wabbit

A new toy has taken shape:

He was originally going to be for the baby, but I couldn't resist sewing a red pom-pom onto his bottom, thus making him 'risky' as a choking hazard.

So, he will be packaging himself up in an envelope shortly and sending himself to one little wabbit-lover in China: my little sister, Alice!

(And I'll be making another, pom-pom-less version, for baby in the near future!)