You can find the revised pattern for free on: www.patreon.com/MijnWolden :)

@winterkoeniginwinternacht2882

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! It's so cute 🤩

@nblmqst1167

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the pattern \(^-^)/

pistachio is arguably the correct choice for ice cream flavors. esp if its not neon green 🤤

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

Yes, the one that actually tastes like pistachio and not something chemical green

@jw8223

4 ай бұрын

I ADORE pistachio!!!!! I’m always disappointed when my local ice cream shop does not have it

My mother gave me my grandmother handwritten patterns and the ones they used to put in her local paper. They are challenging

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

They are, but not impossible 😁

Thanks for revising this pattern. I knit one up for my 2 1/2 year old Granddaughter for Easter. I posted a little video on my channel with a link to this video :)

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

Oooh I'll check it out later!

@hawthorngrove3629

4 ай бұрын

​@MijnWolden I showed my son and his partner and they want me to knit one for their little boy so I just cast on another one 😊

A lot of more mature ladies in East and West Flanders say ‘rechts breien’ for knit and ’links breien’ for purl (aka ‘averechts breien’ in Flemish). So… I guess that’s a yes? As of the end result: I want to make this! It’s so cute! 😍

@MijnWolden

2 ай бұрын

Mystery solved!

Hi Jente, I hope you're OK xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️ I'm sorry that I missed this video podcast, but I was sick in bed that week, with a bad migraine 😢😢. When you said you thought it was an old Bunny Pattern and seeing the Bunny reminded me of a Teddy that my mum had knitted for me in the 1950's. So i thought it was going to be from that era. I agree that it could be something that your co workers mum wrote herself. Has a lot of Patterns are created that way or it could be something that she'd seen in a magazine and wrote the pattern down from that, I do that myself as it saves having to keep the magazine or book open and also makes it easier to take on a trip out. I also write the number of rows out and then cross them off one by one or if its a pattern repeat say eg 6 rows 6x then i write that out 1-6 6× makes life so much easier, or at least to me it does. Sorry for the long winded comment, just thought I'd let you know what I was thinking. Love the Bunny xx Happy Spinning and Knitting Fibre Friend 🎡🧶🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🐕

@MijnWolden

3 ай бұрын

Hi Jen, life happens and you can watch whenever you want ☺️ my mom also does that for the rows!

The addition of the little green i-cord is precious 😍 Happy Easter!!

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

Happy Easter to you too!

It's such a cute bunny! I love that you reworked the pattern and wrote it out!

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁

Jente, vanilla actually comes from the seed pod of a very specific Mexican orchid. I don't see you as vanilla but I could see you as Mexican chocolate, which is highly spiced and with a kick of chili pepper. It is an amazing exotic combination that could express a chaos goblin. Cheers-Laura the Feral Spinner

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

It's true, but the saying that vanilla=standard is because it's the easiest/cheapest flavour to copy artificially (or so I have been told)

@bagladysendtheferalspinner3761

4 ай бұрын

@@MijnWolden Definitely so. In addition, it is easy to make at home if you can get a hold of some vanilla seed pods. 0.5 litre of vodka, 2 or 3 vanilla pods, a glass jar, and 2 months sitting on a sunny window ledge and voila-vanilla extract!

Omg this is so good! I love both of your bunny friends!🥕🐰

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁

I want to knit one with angora! A bunny made from a bunny! Haha

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

That would be very meta and flooffy!

In German we actually use right and left stitches: "rechte und linke Maschen". Maybe it was used in other languages that way as well in the past.

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

Or maybe I have done my research in the wrong languages! I went with the obvious Dutch, English and French.... But for finished objects in Flanders and the Netherlands it could very well have been a German source!

I was just thinking pistachio, and then you said it!

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

😁

My ears perked up when you said you were not sure whether your coworker's mum wrote down instructions a friend gave her or wrote them herself ... It DID sound A LOT like when I ask my grandmother to share one of her recipes with me. She never knows how to explain, because she has done it umpteen times and it's just so natural to her. So maybe - unless your coworker's home was invaded by bunnies - the friend/coworker/whoever gave the mum the notes had made a lot of them themselves? (Fellow historian here, although I'm a Church Historian. ;) ). Anyway, the bunny (or bunnies!) are absolutely lovely! thank you so much for sharing the pattern with us, watching the video was great fun. Happy Easter!

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

Then we should say, fellow church historian! However I'm the church historian that studied history and then specialized in religious history of the high middle ages, rather than the theology student that specialized in history. What about you?

@sonnenblumenimp

4 ай бұрын

@@MijnWolden Ohh then I guess I'm your evil twin - because I'm a theologian who specialises in Reformation Studies!

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

Haha yes exactly. Gregorian reform vs. Reformation, choose your fighter!

@sonnenblumenimp

4 ай бұрын

@@MijnWolden (Gregorian reform is a fantastic topic! Way to go!!)

Oh it’s cute!

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁

with the green tuft on the head it has some Tangy from Animal Crossing vibes :)

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

How great of a sin is it that I have never experienced animal crossing yet?

@etienne6916

4 ай бұрын

hahaha xD it's not a sin, the game is really not for everyone. Most of my friends who tried it asked me "is there anything to do in that game?" xD but it's very relaxing and cozy :)

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

I think the game would be for me if I had the time to play games...

Well done! I love that very cute bunny face 🐰. harpingJanet

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 😁

For those ears, what if instead of sewing up like a big tube, you folded them down in half and then sewed them up? I think that would make them fatter and shorter, right?

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

It would. The original only has one side seam though

_We are The Bunnies and our name is Legion..._ Regarding the provenance of the pattern, I would even hazard a guess that your co-worker's mother developed it herself and wrote down the instructions as an _aide memoire_ for when she needed to make more for subsequent years. EDIT: Despite the fact that the pattern appears to have been published more widely in the early 1990s, this doesn't mean that your colleague's mother didn't develop it. Someone has to invent patterns - for all we know a more formal version may have been entered into a competition or something of that sort.

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

I feel like you're correct about the aide memoire. It looks like something you just quickly jot down to remember instructions that you kind of know by heart. Looking at other scribbles and drawings that are in that same bag, it seems like something she did quite often. There are rudimentary charts for dresses for her daughter and nieces, a chart for sewing a teddy bear... I should ask my co-worker if his mom ever did write those patterns down in a more formal way. With what I personally know of their family situation, it seems rather unlikely. But not impossible.

May someone please help explain how to sew the legs and ears to become rounded? I know it's not a tutorial, but I'm a novice and am struggling. First I tried following the video by folding the right & left bottom corners together like a book but after stitching together along with the mattress stitch up the back made it look quite triangular in the back. I redid it by folding the bottom left and right corners halfway to meet each other and then mattress stitched... it is usable but left quite rectangular looking legs. Some clear explanation for a newbie how to stitch rounded legs please, this was a lovely thing to knit

@MijnWolden

3 ай бұрын

The trick is gathering them real tight 😉

I have Ariadnes going back to that time (and further) I got them from a thriftstore, bound in bookform. Would you like me to try and find the pattern in them?

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

That's not necessary ☺️

German patterns refer to knit and purl as left and right as well…so say my German friends

@silverwitch6863

4 ай бұрын

Yup, they do. 😊 I‘m German, and this is the way I learned it too.

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

I did not know! How interesting

Bananas!

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

🍌🍌🍌🍌

Love it! I am curious; Would you have been able to recreate the bunny from just your friends mothers handwritten notes without having/have seen the actual physical green bunny and been able to reference that item too? :) (and by the way - things from late eighties are not VERY old! 🥸)

@nblmqst1167

4 ай бұрын

I had the "not VERY old" thought myself. 👵 (lol)

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

I think: the knitting, yes, the sewing would have worked out differently... Oh and I think the age is relative to the material, and since paper disintegrates very fast, I think it is ok to say it is a very old paper. It is at the point of no longer being ok with folding however you like.

@resourcedragon

4 ай бұрын

@@MijnWolden: I don't remember seeing foolscap and quarto regularly in Australia after the early 1980s. I would have expected A4 would have displaced quarto and foolscap even earlier in a country that had been metric for a much longer time. So I suspect the paper may already have been old when the pattern was written down, perhaps it was taken out of a book or a folder where your colleague's mother kept her knitting notes. Going by the style of the handwriting, I'd guess that the writer learnt to write around about the 1930s. Regarding stuffing the ears: I'd be looking around for a rigid tube that could be inserted into them, then I'd put the stuffing in the tube and poke it down with something like a pencil and then slide the tube out, leaving the ears neatly stuffed.

@MijnWolden

4 ай бұрын

@@resourcedragon That's a pretty good guess. She was born exactly in 1930, so in our schoolsystem she would have learned to write around 1936.