Hello my lovely ladies. I'm on Holiday at the moment so posting is a bit hit and miss as we're spending time backwards and forwards visiting relatives and trying to spend some time at home too.
I nearly forgot to take a photo of this heavily embroidered cloth. It's folded in half on my ironing board. (see, I do iron occasionally!) Anyway I thought I aught to take a piccy of it in one piece before I ...
Cut it up!
Snip, snip, snip!
And then I stitched it back up to make... can you guess?
Yes of course
You all know what it is
A huge clue
An even bigger clue.
Yep! You were all right. 
Only this time it's a 50% BIGGER bunny!
(You wouldn't believe the button beeping that was going on in the library when I asked the lady behind the desk if she could increase my pattern by 30% and 50% on the photocopier for me! teehee! She must have had about ten attempts! Luckily she only charged me for correctly sized one!)
I'm thinking of making some EVEN BIGGER ones, that poor lady will hide behind the counter when she sees me coming again! lol!
And I'll leave you with a picture of some LUVERLY new ribbon. Isn't it just delicious?
I'm thinking of making some EVEN BIGGER ones, that poor lady will hide behind the counter when she sees me coming again! lol!
And I'll leave you with a picture of some LUVERLY new ribbon. Isn't it just delicious?
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Very British!
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'More tea Vicar!'
13 comments:
Wow. Did I tell you I love bunnies. This is spectacular. What a great use of the cloth. You are doing pretty well for being on holiday, getting all those pictures in and entertaining to boot.
Cooee Fi, what a gorgeous bunny,you are so brave being able to cut into such a beautiful cloth, I wouldn't know where to start! No doubt you will use the leftovers to make something wonderful. Enjoy your holiday and I am still loving the photos of Hawes
Gosh you are brave to cut up the tablecloth but the bunny is so lovely, well donw!
He has a lovely face!
Love
Lyn
xxx
He's gotgeous - love him (or maybe it's a lady rabbit with all that fancy embroidery?)!
I must admit, part of me shuddered at the photos of you cutting up the cloth. But WOW! - the rabbit is gorgeous! I love it!
Beautiful Bunny!!! Enjoy the rest of your break!!!
Sharon : ) xx
Wow, the bunny is stunning! I LOVE it! I absolutely love embroidered cloth.
Laura x
Oooh, your bunnies are lovely, Fi. I was just looking through a new sewing book yesterday to see the patterns need enlarging, grrrr, I hate that! Enjoy your hols.
Hen xxx
Adorable! So very pretty with the embroidered flowers. I always enjoy seeing the fruits of your talent.
beautiful bunny, you're so clever.
Hi,
I have been away and not had a chance to look at the blogs but have just been drooling at yours, what beautiful fabric and ribbon and a great bunny! Wish we were able to do aday trip to that lovely shop. Maybe one day...
Catriona
Is that giant bunny likely to end up in a shop window near me?
The bunny IS lovely BUT I feel it is sacrilege to cut up such a beautiful old cloth that someone spent hours and hours making. It was not a bit of old tat but a lovely piece of craft that should have been saved - if you didn't want to put it on your table, someone would have liked it well enough and been thrilled to do so. Your rabbit doesn't come close - if you want an embroidered rabbit why not do your own embroidery!!!
I find it rather upsetting actually, seeing pictures of such a destructive act. Would you like someone to snip snip through all your hard work? These things go for a song which is why people buy them and chop them up. However, they want THEIR work to be valued and recognised for the work that goes into it and put hefty price tags on them. Hypercritical or what? I know everyone likes to keep things nice on these blogs. But I think the destruction of our heritage (mostly women's - which isn't taken very seriously as it is) is serious enough to say what I feel here.
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