Peter Rabbit theme

Well on ths same theme more or less as yesterday, I had also decided to attempt to knit some of the characters myself. The patterns I did find on e-bay were mainly of the frog and other male characters, I specifically wanted Mrs. Rabbit, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail and Jemima Puddleduck as well as Peter of course but the only pattern I managed to find was a really large one of Jemima. So I decided to do what I normally would do and wing it myself.

If you notice at the top of my blog page in my banner, there is what looks for all the world like an odd brown shaped head with a blueish top and brown body end. Well this was basically the finished body part for Mrs. Rabbit, I set it aside trying to figure out the ears and dress end and apron, while I also got on with other projects. As I had excruciating heartburn again last night, I didn't mind in the slightest knitting up the rest of her and this morning stitching her together. Hopefully the baby will like it. Though I do think I went a bit long in the arms. At least I'll know better for the next one... if there is a next one. The girl rabbits and Peter shouldn't be any trouble I hope, it's the thought now of making up a pattern for Jemima. Heaven help me! :)

Other projects

Well as our baby is due shortly, I decided it was time to get the room ready. I had settled for some reason on a Peter Rabbit / Beatrix Potter theme but discovered soon enough that any stores here in Cork did not sell any thing of this nature. Winnie the Pooh, no problem, Dora the Explorer and tons of other stuff but no Beatrix Potter. So I went on e-bay and online to a dozen other sites, which exasperated me more. I got shunted from site to site and soon discovered that these sites were like search engines and didn't actually sell anything. The stuff on ebay was alright I guess but not want I was looking for at all.

So after mulling it over, decided as the walls in the babies room were a nice creamy colour anyhow, I would not bother attempting to find a freize or border but to draw one around the wall instead and then paint it. I decided to do a square canvas water colour of a Peter Rabbit scene as a trial run and though not a work of art, it looked fine. So am itching now to get on with my border. Of course hubby is all, "you should be resting and not painting rooms" type of thing but honestly, there's only so much rest I can actually stand.



I downloaded a black and white picture to get the outline and then a coloured version, so I would have the colours somewhat right. I kept Peter out of the finished picture as I wanted to just see how I could manage the others first. There was no point in me going over the top on it. Of course now that it is finished, I might do another one or two just to hang up around the wall a lot higher up than the border that will be positioned around the center of walls.