11-02-2020

Doubled both yarns for tail, it’s too firm. Considering if I should tink it and do over, with a single yarn of each one, instead of double. So this was 4 strand knitting!

11-14-2020

No frogging, I kept the tail as it was, I decided it was more like a real bunny’s tail. And besides, these yarns do not want to come apart once they are knit, especially the fuzzy cottony-puff Symphony… so it is what it is.

12-7-2020
Resumed work on Bunny after a hiatus doing some simpler knitting on a Salish-style vest for the Captain. A tip for sewing in the eyes: I sewed them in on the top (brow side) by bringing the needle up through either the inside loop or the second loop of the edge stitch from the back of the eye “socket,” then picking up the underside edge loop of the face, so the fabrics overlapped slightly, bringing the needle out slightly under that edge horizontally, instead of coming out straight directly through the face of the fabric. Then I brought the needle down into the face-side of the eye just inside (toward the toy eye “center”) and pulled through. This gave a slight “brow” look, a bit of an overhang that made it look more natural to me. We’ll see if it works, and if it remains through stuffing. The lower lid was overlapped as for the upper, giving the eyes a set-in appearance, but instead of catching the underside back loop of the edge stitch, I just brought the needle through the center, and back into the white from the front, creating a more usual overlap stitch.

12-26-2020

Finished seaming except for small area at hind leg for stuffing. Almost finished with that, I ran out of the Efco Perlenfaser,weiß polyester feather stuffing, 50 gm bag I purchased with Sarah at Edelhoff Kreativkaufhaus in Berlin. Used some extra eyelash yarn, but I haven’t decided if I want to finish it that way, as it won’t as easily squish about to shape the body as the fiber fill, since it’s in long skinny strings.

01-04-2021

Body finished for year end. Used extra eyelash yarn to stuff. Started on hind legs, and realized I would probably run out of Gedifra before I finished! What to do, what to do?

After frogging my first hind foot, and ransacking my stash for a suitable yarn for contrast work on the feet, I came up with a VERY unlikely combo which, after swatching and comparing, worked! It was the Knotty and Celebrity yarns, held together that made a pleasingly coordinating color without too much texture contrast, except as feet might have. The second attempt had to be frogged because I knit past the color change rows without changing. Third times a charm, as they say. Looks like a lucky rabbits foot!