Hare Today...

 I painted this months ago and it has been sitting in my spare room until yesterday!  It was commissioned as a birthday present for a friend and  I had to keep it secret for all this time.  Thankfully, the wait was worth it, she loves the painting.  

Painted in watercolour on paper, and it was a mixture of several reference photos and a little imagination.

  

Look Who Came To Stay!

Big excitement over breakfast yesterday when the postman brought a parcel addressed to my daughter.  There are no birthdays or celebrations this week, so she was totally unprepared to receive gifts.  When we opened the big box, out popped this magnificent fellow!  He is a Dartmoor Hare, beautifully made by Midge over at Soggibottom, who really ought to be making these for a living instead of teasing us by making her bears sporadically!  Stacie was so pleased, she positively beamed!

There is a bit of a story behind this (not very interesting but I'm telling it to you nevertheless).  Last year I was given a big sack of fabric by a colleague who was clearing out her spare room, and amongst it all were some pieces of fur fabric.  I passed these on to Midge as I very rarely use fur in what I make.  They survived the double flooding of her house over the winter months, and now a portion has come home to roost in this lovely form.  We have to find a special place for him to sit and watch over us, not hidden up in Stacie's bedroom...and far away from a certain doggy chap who showed an unhealthy interest!

What's the best time to go to the dentist...

This is a knitted clock, with movable hands, destined to be in the animated film.  It is three inches across and was one of the easier items I have had to construct lately.  I can't show you what I knitted yesterday as it is not very pleasant, but I can tell you it's brown and falls out of a pig's bottom...I get all the best jobs!

Hare Today...

In amongst all the knitting and painting for other people, I managed to complete a jumper for myself. This is from a pattern in November's Yarn Forward magazine. It was knitted from the top down, which makes life very easy as there are no seams at all, the only difference being the hare pattern was worked 'upside-down' - not a problem.

This has been knitted in green arran weight yarn with the hares worked in baby camel wool. It is nice and warm, which is just what was needed today among the flurries of snow here in rural Hampshire!

More Amigurumi....

This little hare was less complicated to make than the crocodile, but still took all evening. I'm going to have to find a way of translating the instructions better...poor thing had an arm stitched on instead of a tail at one point!


Hey!! What's that interloper doing in my area??


Meanwhile, the crocodile appears to have gone on the rampage! That's all that is left of his latest victim........and look, he's deliberately made a complete mess of my desk!

I'm currently working on a double horse portrait - there are pencils and bits of paper everywhere. Just as well all finished art work is not that messy!