Bunnies

So I've been a little more absent than usual this week, because I've been without my computer since Tuesday. I'd hoped that all that extra time I was going to have because I wasn't on Ravelry or reading blogs meant that there was going to be hordes of knitting to blog about.

Instead I came don horrendously sick on Wednesday, and spent Wednesday and Thursday in bed, sleeping and clutching my poor aching head.

I have no idea why I keep coming down with these illnesses this year.

There has been knitting though.

On Tuesday, I started knitting Ysolda Teague's Sophie.

Tuesday night I got the head done and started on the body.

It's a great little pattern, and super quick! Picking up the stitches for the body wasn't too bad, either. But there she laid, until Friday when I finally picked up my knitting again. After that, it was zoom, zoom, zoom!

Saturday morning she looked like this.

Picking up stitches for the arms got a little fiddly, with the legs and head getting in the way, but once you get to the ears, the arms look like a piece of cake.

Yup. Then you have to knit those stitches in the round. They were laughing at me at Stitch n Bitch yesterday afternoon!
But it's all worth it in the end.

All she needs is her face. I've used Sublime Cashmere Merino Silk DK to knit her, and she's lovely and soft and cuddly.
I showed her to Twinkie, but she was unimpressed. That may be because she's in disgrace right now, for eating Emily's science experiment. Apparently the science teacher was not impressed by Emily's excuse of "My rabbit ate my homework!"

But having a pet rabbit is a wonderful thing. Especially when they save your life when your house is on fire. Go Rabbit!!