Boo goes to a Waldorf preschool, doesn't watch tv, and has very limited access to other media, one result of this being that she doesn't fall prey to kiddy consumerism. This fact, along with the vivid imaginative life she lives with her 'guys' (soft toys), leads to her requesting gifts that are interesting... and usually challenging for me in that I have to make them. One year she asked for a new outfit for bear, simple enough. This year, she requested a 'bunny burrow' for her beloved bunny. Okay, no problem. Errrm, what exactly does a bunny burrow look like and how would one go about making one? Well, here is what I came up with...
Bunny's burrow is fashioned from a large piece of felted sweater, rolled into a tube and sewn into a cylinder open at one end. As this was rather floppy, I used some pipe cleaner circles to reinforce the cylinder at 3 points, and sewed pretty ribbon over them to keep them in place. Finally, I knitted bunny some cosy wool bedding. Doesn't he look cosy? Upon opening her gift, Boo looked initally unsure, then asked 'is this a bunny burrow?'. When I assured her that, yes, this was indeed a bunny burrow she seemed to accept it completely (I don't think she had really visualised beforehand what a bunny burrow may indeed look like) and bunny was swifly installed in his burrow. Phew.
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