Finishing the Rabbit

When we last saw Mr Rabbit, he was barely begun, just the ears with some interesting stitch choices.

Much of the stitching thereafter has been in varying random Cretan Stitch. I’m finding it quite useful for layering and intertwining the stitches around one another, each modifying the tone of the other. The gauze is also surprisingly useful, allowing the stitches to show through, modified once again by the colour of the fabric.

I’ve learnt from some of the first few animals and decided to put the eye in at an earlier stage. It’s not easy to get eyes entirely right, and if they are wrong it can look dreadful. As well as being harder to put in and harder to take out, the later it happens.

As I carried on, I put more layers of colour in, and then had the bright idea of doing the bunny’s tail in velvet stitch.

Of course I did.

I can tell you that pile stitch on gauze in single strands of stranded cotton is extremely fiddly and frustrating to do!

It works, though!