a very dapper bunny

Hello!  phew!  well after an absolute whirlwind Christmas is just gone, whoosh, just like that…  This year I made a small collection of gifts for my grandsons, including this rather dapper young buck for Arthur!

 

I used the book “Making Luna Lapin” by Sarah Peel.  I’d bought this book from Calico and Ivy at the beginning of this year, using a birthday voucher that my children bought for me for my birthday the year before.  What can I say, I do love making tiny clothes for animals and dolls!  Obviously Arthur is a boy so I decided to make a boy bunny.  Of course, the clothes are kinda gender neutral really,  so if Arthur decides the bunny is a girl then I’m very open to making girl clothes too!

I made the, as yet, un-named bunny using camel felt from spotlight, and the purple cotton paw pads, ears and buttons were harvested from one of Tim’s old shirts.  Yes, I really do love making things for the babies using their parents’ old clothes!  Just feels very special to me for them to have this connection  🙂

I have made another, previous bunny from this book, as yet unblogged here, and that one has a distinct tendency to topple over sideways, due to it being quite lightweight overall.  To counteract this, I baked a handful of rice and made a little rice-sack, which I sewed into the bottom of this bunny.  It really has helped to stabilise it, and he/she sits up very nicely.

The little chinos are cut from an old pair of cargo pants belonging to Cassie originally… these are so cute!  I absolutely love the hole for his pom pom tail to poke out of, and the totally unnecessary topstitching on those totally unnecessary pockets… CUTE!

The crisp white linen shirt is, if I say so myself; ADORABLE!  It even has a double layered yoke, for which I did the world’s tiniest burrito.  I didn’t take a picture of the white one, but here’s the purple one from the other shirt that I made.  No, it didn’t end up being a part of the outfit, but I may use it for a future bunny.  The white linen is leftover from my Charlie beach caftan that I made a few years ago… my favourite thing about the shirt is the button tucks on the sleeves.

The waistcoat is cut from a really nice wool tweed suiting that Mum gave me during her last cleanup, and lined with a small scrap black silk habotai, deep stash stuff.

Arthur isn’t quite up to operating these tiny buttons yet, but I hope he enjoys adding it to the plushie fold for now.   I expect one day I’ll go over and find it naked, then I’ll know the button issue has been conquered!