These lovely tea towels arrived all the way from South Africa, thanks to a parcel full of tea love from my dear friend Anne.

The tea towels are made from beautifully printed fabrics by the talented Heather Moore who has a little shop called Skinny LaMinx in my home town. She also has an Etsy shop.

Aha! From The Eternal Maker. It was the felt I had ordered for Miss Maggie Rabbit.


The had called ahead to let me know that sandstone was out of stock. I had looked high and low to find that particular shade of woolfelt (specified as a necessity in the pattern), and it was the only place that had it in stock. Alas, it wasn't meant to be. I spent around ten minutes on the phone to Daisy from ETM trying to find a suitable alternative for Miss Maggie Rabbit. Would she be haybale or cobblestone?

Daisy was very helpful. There were far too many options.

When I think about bunnies, they're always brown or grey. Cobblestone bunnies? Oh, why not. That's cobblestone in that picture, up there. It's a browny colour, with a decidedly yellowish undertone. Not keen on Yellow.


And this. Oh, this is a lovely colour. It's Havana Gold. It's a wonderful bronze brown with flecks of dark chocolate running through it. It is for Miss Maggie's Boots.

Bunnies in Boots.

A real Easter Treat.

I absolutely love this Penguin fabric. Apple green, penguins in hats and news print, what's not to love?

It's a linen blend called Penguin by Nancy Wolff for Kokka. I bought a fat quarter, thinking it might be made into a purse or a bit of a quilt. But. I can't possibly cut into it just yet. It's just too lovely.

Tomorrow it might be cut into squares or made into a purse, but, for now, I'm happy to admire it as it sits on my sewing table.

I have always admired Alicia Paulson's stitching - she has the prettiest little samplers and christmas ornaments, and her photographs are really something special. They make you want to get your stitch on.

And then.

Then, I saw Miss Maggie Rabbit.

She's a fairly new addition to the Posie Gets Cozy family, and she's been featuring in blog posts for the last few weeks. She's completely hand-stitched from whiskers to boots.


She was first available as a kit which you'd have to order all the way from the Americas. Later, she was available as a PDF.

I resisted for a few weeks. I really, really like that bunny's little rosy cheeks.

But then, in the spirit of Easter, I bought a copy of the softie pattern.

$6? To support a blog I really enjoy reading? Fair's fair, I say.

What on earth am I going to do with a 45cm-tall rabbit? We'll find out in a few weeks once all of the felt bits and threads and whatnots arrive.

By the by, if you're in the UK and you want to buy the National Nonwovens wool-blend felt in color #WCF2612 Sandstone and #TOY2616 Havana Gold, you don't have to order it from the USA. The lovely folks at The Eternal Maker have it in stock, for sale in 10cm increments.

I know, I hunted.

There seems to be an awful lot of knitting going on here. It must be because it's still snowing out (it's March, and there's SNOW) and I like to think of knitting as my "winter sport". Because really, we all need to keep active, don't we?

This is my latest WIP - James C. Brett's creatively-named JB153. It's a chunky-weight cardi that is designed to layer up in the cold. Do you remember the line in Shrek when he's trying to explain to Donkey that Ogres have layers? Like Onions? Whenever I hear the word "layers," that runs through my mind. Onions have layers.

That's why this is the Onion Cardi.