Oh Bunny

So a very close friend of mine is having a little baby, she is due in March.  This past weekend was her baby shower.  I was not able to make it because it was a far drive for my knee.  But since I was home I was able to make to make something special just for her and the baby.

When I was a baby, my Mom made me a special bunny.  She told me that she wanted to make me something special, that she didn't do for my sisters.  She told me it took a couple trials, but this is Bunny.  After 30 years his flannel is thin, but he still looks pretty good.  I love that he is flat and easy for a little one to hold and hug so I decided to make a bunny for her.  I put bunny on some brown paper and traced around him..


Now I have my bunny pattern.  When I traced it onto the fabric I traced about a quarter of an inch away and then cut about a quarter of an inch from that... I wanted to make sure to leave enough of a seem allowance.  I set my stitch length small and got to sewing.  I am proud to introduce Bunny 2...

Bunny 2 is made of a nice soft flannel, like Bunny 1 was, except he has polka dots.  He is stuffed with a nice soft polyfil and ready to be loved by the little baby.  Bunny 1 and Bunny 2 both have their faces stitched on and a nice heart on the chest.















I am very happy with how Bunny turned out.

So I couldn't just send one "buddy" (as my nephew would call it) for the baby.  So I remembered seeing an elephant tutorial on a site a while back (I can't remember where, oops).  That elephant was flat though so I thought... hmmm I can make that to be like a real elephant so I played around and came up with elephant.

I'll admit that this was the second one I made... the first one had some standing issues so I figured I would try again.  Elephant is made with 100% cotton and stuffed with polyfil.   The fabric has little raindrops on it and the ears are a polka dot.  His are also stitched on.

I even stitched a little tag I had that said PS I Love You into the seem.  And the tail is a loop to make it easy to carry when the little one can drag it around.









I am very happy with how Bunny and Ellie turned out.  I hope the make the little one very happy too... when he/she comes along, that is :)

I sent the package to her mom and was happy it arrived in time to make the shower.  I am sad I had to miss the shower, but I will make sure to visit as soon as I can.


I am linking up to Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story :)