Floppy ears

A floppy ear creation.  

Bunny hooded towel

Trying to keep the towel from being too difficult to dry, I decided to make the ears a  single ply of material.  It took on a worn bunny look, which I like.

Bunny

When choosing the color I decided to do this light brown instead of a white.  But like all my creations it might end up being made with another color.  

A small break from towels...

There will be more towels in the collection that I have created.  But an inspiration hit me to finish doing a two colored cow.  I have what might be called an obsession with seams.  I like hidden seams, with minimal details.  And I did not want to use a cow printed fabric.  Those are only two of many reasons why this cow has been just an idea and not a reality until now.  Originally in my mind it was a black and white cow.  What I produced was a white and brown cow in Large.

Calf (white and brown) Fd

It was then time to scale it down to a Medium.  The Medium hat did not turn out as I expected it to.  A white stripe down the center was not what I wanted.  And after pinning on the white ear flaps I decided I rather have it brown.  I reworked the Medium pattern and will have to see how it comes out when I make another one.  The next one will have a color change too.

Calf(white and brown) Fp

These I am calling Calf because of the stubby horns I gave them.  Moo moo moo.

Green mood, color mood...

Well here it is... it was only a matter of time that this would appear.

Frog hooded towel

The hooded towel collection would not be complete without a frog.  I stuck to a soft green.   For some reason light green has become my color of choice.  I would not call it my favorite color, since I have never claimed to have a favorite color.  It is more of my favoring certain colors.  As I think about it, I tend to like muted earth tones like grays, blues, browns, greens etc.  But I have been in moods of more vibrant tones of yellows, oranges, pinks, reds...  I will attribute the whole purple and lavender mood I sometimes get into, to my sister.  She once gave me lavender corduroy short pant overalls, which were very comfortable.  That lavender got etched into my mind as being a comfortable color.

Frog

There were three or four choices of greens.  I want this to be my primary hooded towel frog color.  Deciding on the eye color took a while too, the eyes are not the normal black.  I was going to make them blue or even a green but finally decided on a dark brown.

Monkey towel

The towel(in the picture below) I made last year, the first one that I placed ears onto was a monkey.  It will be a one of a kind since I will not be attaching ears in the same way.

 

Monkey 2008

I decided to lower the position of the ears.  Still haven't decided if I will change it later, but for now that is where they will be.

Monkey towel

Start of my Spring 2009

I am still here!  My posting have been few and far apart.  But they are about to start again, as I begin on my newest addition.  Hooded towels.  

The first hooded towels that I made were in 2007. They were gifts for my friend's two sons.  I have always thought hooded towels were a great thing.  You can just set it on your head and your hands are free to do other things without worrying about dropping the towel.  The towels I made in 2007 were just plain towels with a hood.  Last year when making another gift, I added ears to the towel.  

I was out shopping earlier this year and saw striped towels and thought... tigers! It was at that moment I knew I was ready to embark on creating them for Little frog.  I excitedly got a bunch of towels in gray and yellow.  And started on creating the tiger hoods. 

 

Gray Tiger

Yellow Tiger

More hoods to come in the next few days...