If it's almost Easter, I must be contemplating more bunny purchases. But something went horribly wrong when I was selecting two extra fluffy ones:
I was so distracted choosing between a soft brown bunny or a blue, I did not notice the soft brown I eventually bought had been playing with permanent marker:
Disastre! Or... maybe Opportunity?
For various reasons that include not having taking the offered receipt following this purchase, and a lack of other soft brown bunnies in the store, we decided I would instead try to fix the marks. And I will tell you straight out, stain removal was not an option - it'd been there too long. I did consider embroidery, because with green for a stem and something else for the centre of a flower, the circular stain could have passed as diffuse petals, but I'm not good enough to pull that off.
Instead, I hunted through my fabric stash again and was pleased to discover that this old love is as good a match as I'd hoped. Yay!
I also found this other old favourite I'd totally forgotten, which would look pretty awesome appliqued onto my felted sweater with the holes in it, so I'm going to give that a think for some later date.
I got to work cutting out some ears and liner fabric, and adapted them for the shape of each of bunny's flops...
and this morning, got out the ironing board to press and top stitch them...
(allowing a smaller bunny to try them on for size first, because I am so generous.)
This is how I expect the patches to look, once they're sewn on. You can see they won't go all the way to the top of the ear - the fabric is folded there, and I don't know how I'd get in with my needle anyway, so I am stopping them just above the level of the stain and will leave the tops open so somebody could stuff little treasures in there, or just earrings:
Naturally when I planned all this I assumed I would have it all done to show you before I go off to play for the afternoon. And just as naturally, I was wrong. So I will leave you with the first ear partly done, and best wishes for a lovely weekend of your own. You can certainly guess what I'll be doing, once bunny wakes up from his nap.
See you next Saturday, and thanks for stopping by!
