Bianca bunny

Well, here's a change to my usual style! I've just come home from completing another teddy bear workshop run by Lynn Bowie of Madaboutbears. This is her style and, although very different to mine, I couldn't resist how cute her bears are - added to which, the workshop was in Birmingham, so even better - I didn't even need to travel very far.

So far my bunny doesn't have a name ........ so any suggestions will be welcomed! Naming my bears is always a chore; and I'm so tired right now, my brain isn't in gear!
EDIT: this fluffy bunny is now named Bianca bunny!

This was a sort of 'birthday present to self' as it was my birthday yesterday; and because of that, I was also presented with a bottle of Prosecco - thank you very much!!

Bianca is made from faux fur and she measures 9 inches/23cms top to toe and 6½ inches/17cms sitting. she can be adopted for £50, plus shipping and packaging

UK - £10 Special Delivery

Europe - £15, tracked and signed for

Worldwide - £22 tracked and signed insured

If you would like any further information, please email me at:-

bilberrylane@hotmail.co.uk

Thanks for looking

Lily

Lily; my third bunny, just in time for Easter, is made from Schulte viscose fabric in a gorgeous vintage shade of dusky pink, with a pretty floral cotton fabric for the inner ears. Around her neck, I’ve tied silk ribbons in matching pink and lilac.

Lily is 8¾ inches/22cms top to toe and 6½ inches/16cms sitting. She is 5-way cotter jointed, with a wobble neck joint and filled with firm fibre filling and steel shot for weight. She has black glass eyes and has been slightly aged around the edges with oil pastels to add to the vintage look.

Although I forgot to photograph them, on her back are a fabric ‘Handmade at Bilberry Lane’ label and her unique antique style ‘BL’ pin.

Lily’s finishing touches are a bunny/egg antique style brass charm with matching cotton fabric around her neck and on her head is a beret made from cotton velvet (hand-dyed by me) in a plum colour decorated with a silk flower and a bell on top.

The next photograph is done for and at the suggestion of Simone of Linden Grove blog, who wanted to see a better idea of scale, so here is Lily sitting in my hand – thanks very much for that idea Simone.

Lily can be purchased for £50, plus shipping and packing:

UK - £10 Special Delivery
Europe - £15, tracked and signed for
Worldwide - £22, tracked and insured

If you would like any further information, please email me at:-
bilberrylane@hotmail.co.uk

Thanks for looking

Lemoni

Lemoni (only my second bunny) is so named after a character in the film ‘Captain Correlli’s Mandolin’ and for no other reason than I’ve always loved the name since I saw the film years ago; and as the viscose fabric is a rather pretty lemon colour, it seemed appropriate. Her inner ears and paw pads are genuine Liberty Tana Lawn fabric and she has pretty lemon and pink ribbons around her head.

Lemoni is 8 inches/ 20cms from top to toe and 6 inches /15cms sitting height. She is 5-way cotter jointed, with a wobble neck joint and filled with firm fibre filling and steel shot for a good bit of weight. She has black glass eyes and has been slightly aged around the edges with oil pastels to give a bit of a vintage look.

On her back you can see her fabric ‘Handmade at Bilberry Lane’ label and her unique antique style ‘BL’ pin.

Lemoni’s finishing touch if a lovely little strawberry made from a deep red wool fabric, with a bit of green for the leaves, plus leaf and flower charms, which has been pinned on her chest with a rusty style safety pin.

Lemoni can be purchased for £50, plus shipping and packing:

UK - £8 Special Delivery
Europe - £15, tracked and signed for
Worldwide - £20, tracked and signed

If you would like any further information, please email me at:-
bilberrylane@hotmail.co.uk 

Thanks for looking

Blossom

It’s a relief to have another finished bear to blog about (a bunny actually) so that I can relegate the ‘green eyed monster’ to a steep learning curve!! LOL I have said that I am still learning at the moment and all I did was to prove it – lesson learnt!!!

So, who do we have next? Someone much more up my street that’s who. I’ve made a cute little bunny: on the vintage and slightly distressed side. Blossom is from a pattern by Olive Grove Primitives and happily, she looks remarkably like the one in the pattern photo.

I’ve used a beautiful viscose fabric in the most gorgeous dusty pink colour. The more I use viscose, the more I enjoy working with it – better than mohair in fact. She is 5-way jointed and is 8 inches from top to toe. She has BLACK glass eyes (LOL) and is filled with the usual firm fibre filling and steel shot for a nice bit of weight. Blossom has been slightly distressed around the edges and is simply attired with a pretty pink ribbon around her lovely long bunny ears and has a fake rusty safety pin, a small bell and old coin charm pinned to her chest. And to finish off, a bit of faux mending stitches here and there.

I hope you like Blossom – I’m rather pleased with her!