More cuties…I bet Rachel would love this!

[MimzMum]

Well, since we’re all going ga-ga over the sock bunnies, I thought I’d look up Etsy and found this:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php

After all…her bunny’s name IS “Frankie”…lolz!

[bunnycutie]

how cute. i would love to make that. LOL.

[Monkeybun]

lol! Wants!

[MimzMum]

lolz…And I just realized we have two Rachels on the board now…I was thinking of xdigxmexnowx…

I just bought a book on how to do animgurumi. I’ve decided I need to learn to knit and crochet, it will keep my hands busy.
Does anyone here knit or crochet? If so, how long did it take you to learn?

[Lori Anne]

I just saw on peta yesterday that etsy.com is using fur this season

[jerseygirl]

haha! I like how it’s description says “FrankenBunny finds great glee in vacuuming”
Just like Frankie!

[RachelB]

well this Rachel thinks they are cute too!!!

[Sage Cat]

Hey Mimz Mum – I crochet. My knitting is very lacking but, I’m working on it. I think which ever one you learn first you are better at,cause they are opposites.
It took me no time at all to learn. Maybe about 2 months to get pretty good at it.
I mostly checked books out from the library – I found the ones for teens have great for learning, lots of illustrations.
There are some good websites like: http://www.lionbrand.com/ that has a Learning Center.

I have a few “recipes” for animgurumi bunnies I want to make!

[MimzMum]

Posted By jerseygirl on 08/18/2009 07:37 AM
haha! I like how it’s description says “FrankenBunny finds great glee in vacuuming”
Just like Frankie!

ROFL! Too true!

Sage, thanks for the link to the yarn site. Yeah, I’d really like to do both, but with my poor eyesight I might have to just settle for one fashion. I’ve been so jealous of all my husband’s relatives who can knit, his stepmom makes the greatest blankets and hats and scarves. She has great talent. Even my (birth)mom can crochet and it drives me nuts!

 

[LittlePuffyTail]

I LOVE Etsy!!! I could spend all day just browsing the site.

Lori Anne- Since I’m very anti-fur I e-mailed Etsy my thoughts on them using fur.

Mimzmum- I bought a “Teach Yourself to Crochet” kit because it said it was so easy but I’m finding it quite difficult to learn all the loops and stuff. I love the idea of crochet because yarn is so ridiculously cheap compared to my other crafts and it’s so fast when you get good at it (I do cross-stitch so something quick would be a nice change of pace.)

[Sage Cat]

Little Puffy Tail – I got that same “Teach Yourself to Crochet” kit – NOT SO MUCH. Those kits do not have good instructions!

Library books & good web sites, or a very patient friend, are the way to go.

[Monkeybun]

Out of all of our group of friends, I am the only female to not knit lol. I’ve been holding out, cuz I’ve seen the amount of room it takes up in one of my friends houses lol.

[tabalab]

i am going to make my own sock bunny tomorrow. I am not very crafty so we shall see

[Monkeybun]

Ooo theres an idea. make my own… hmms… *ponders* Wonder if meanie-hubby would go for that lol.

[MimzMum]

Depends. If you’re making them to sell, perhaps, but I know if I got a kit to make things and then just added to the already overflowing house clutter, my hubby would have reason to have me institutionalized…lolz.
I think they’re probably pretty easy to do. From what I can tell, it seems you kind of shorten the sock a bit to an inch or two above the heel for the face and body, clip the toe area to make the ears, sew those shut, stuff the other end of the sock, sew it shut. then embroider eyes and a nose. However it’s probably a bit more complex than that. But what the heck, have some of those left handed socks that their mate didn’t make it out of the dryer? Go for it!
For me, it was worth it to purchase them from the originator of the style and have her lovely creation brightening my day. (Plus I have serious copyright issues, having been a musician for most of my life.) I wouldn’t for the life of me take her design and try to sell them myself. I’d actually love to send her some socks from the U.S. and have her make customs, but that WOULD be silly! ^_^

[Monkeybun]

lol yeah, I’d so just buy em, but meanie won’t let me

[tabalab]

Not to sell just for my own buns and i dont buy online much so …

[RabbitPam]

I think sending socks is a great idea.

Send Meanie’s, Monkeybun. Let him wear sandles. It’s summer.

tabalab, show us what you make.

btw, I looked on line a few weeks ago and the stuffing they use is super soft, and only made in the UK.

[tabalab]

ya maybe if it is remotely cute i will

[Monkeybun]

lol! Unfortunately, Meanie-butt doesn’t have any cute socks

[tabalab]

So here is my sock bun! He is all hand sewed and I got really lazy and just drew on a mouth. It isn’t the best but hey I never sew anyway.

 

[BunnyLiz]

Oh that sock bun is super cute! You have inspired me, im thinking of making my own lol.

[RabbitPam]

tabalab,
That is adorable!
I love it.

[tabalab]

its fairly simple so i had fun doing it

[mrmac]

I need to find a sock and make one! Very cute!

[tabalab]

Ya i bought the socks at the doller store along with a mini sewing kit and then used the fluff from inside an old blanket to make this one.

http://breezeb.tripod.com/crafts/sockbunny.html I used this as a guideline but skipped a few steps

[mrmac]

Thats and awesome guide! And very cute!!! Got to get sewing!!!!!

[flippersmom]

OOhhh… I never thought of it…..I have a little bin in the laundry room for those stray socks, poor little guys deserve a second life away from the smelly feet!!!! My son got a kit for making a sock monkey, I’m sure with a little manipulation I could turn it into a bunny!!!!!!!
***grabs pocket calender and begins searching for free time***

[jerseygirl]

Ah ha! That is where all the missing odd socks end up. What I want to see is a disapproving sock bunny. They all have that cutsey lil lop-sided mouth currently.

[flippersmom]

Seriosly jersey, I do have a few oddballs that I have no recolection of every being owned by someone in my house!!!! Maybe our dryers have some subterranian connection!!!!!!! And you’re right about that cutsie look – I’ll see what I can do!!! I currently have several disapproving faces to model for me!!!!!!!!!!!

[jerseygirl]

Tehe! Disapproving models.

I know with the mystery odd socks too. I sometimes get one who I don’t know who it belongs to. It’s worse when it happens with underwear! j/k. With socks disappearing & socks appearing, there just has to be another earthly dimension we can’t see.

[flippersmom]

eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww……unknown underwear!!!!!!!!!!!! hhhmmmmmmmmm…..wonder if we can make bunnies out of those too??????????

Maybe we should start a thread with pictures of our odd socks to see if anyone recognizes them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MimzMum]

Wow, Tab! 0_o That’s impressive! I love it!

[tabalab]

Thanks! Oh and I have a new member to our family!! I named him rue and he is reddish brown almost liek the bun in your avatar mimz! He is the boys new STUNT BUNNY! HA Ill get pictures later

[SirThumpsey]

“It’s just common courtesy not to eat your houseguests, he says. ” -So very true! I thought that was the cutest thing!

This is a little late but-

I knit but I haven’t learned how to purl (from what I understand it’s like backwards knitting.) I haven’t learned how to crotchet but I’ve been trying to learn. I have taken up spinning yarn from wool and now shedded bunny fur. I have been collecting Sir Thumps to spin and some of Halo’s. I’ll let you know how it turns out.

[MimzMum]

Oh wow…using bunny fur to knit with. I hadn’t thought of that.
I have a neighbor (we are not on speaking terms) who used to raise angoras for knitting materials. She apparently made mittens and hats from their fur.
Spinning your own yarn, now THAT is a wild idea! 0_o I don’t think I could manage it.

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