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Knitting a vintage toy Easter Bunny from a 'lost' pattern from a fellow crafter's legacy 

Mijn Wolden
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Hello friends! I inherited the craft supplies of my coworkers' mom. In this treasure trove of yarn and tools for sewing, crochet and of course knitting was also a very old an beat up slip of paper: a handwritten knitting pattern for a stuffed animal, an easter bunny no less. Luckily for me there was also a knit example of this vintage pattern in the crafting supplies. So with Easter approaching I thought it would be fitting to try and resurrect this forgotten pattern. Yes, forgotten. I gather this was not something self designed, but rather remembered from an extant knitting pattern from the late eighties to early nineties. (With 1987 as a Terminus Post Quem).
I'm knitting this bunny with Rowan Moordale, a remnant of the yarn I used to knit my Polina Sweater with.
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#knitting #knittingpattern #easterbunny #stuffedanimal #handmade #crafting #knittingdesign

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@MijnWolden
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
You can find the revised pattern for free on: www.patreon.com/MijnWolden :)
@winterkoeniginwinternacht2882
@winterkoeniginwinternacht2882 5 месяцев назад
Thank you! It's so cute 🤩
@nblmqst1167
@nblmqst1167 5 месяцев назад
Thank you for the pattern \(^-^)/
@prettypanda
@prettypanda 5 месяцев назад
pistachio is arguably the correct choice for ice cream flavors. esp if its not neon green 🤤
@MijnWolden
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
Yes, the one that actually tastes like pistachio and not something chemical green
@jw8223
@jw8223 4 месяца назад
I ADORE pistachio!!!!! I’m always disappointed when my local ice cream shop does not have it
@jeanmccullough7737
@jeanmccullough7737 4 месяца назад
My mother gave me my grandmother handwritten patterns and the ones they used to put in her local paper. They are challenging
@MijnWolden
@MijnWolden 4 месяца назад
They are, but not impossible 😁
@hawthorngrove3629
@hawthorngrove3629 4 месяца назад
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
@MijnWolden 4 месяца назад
Oooh I'll check it out later!
@hawthorngrove3629
@hawthorngrove3629 4 месяца назад
​@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 😊
@eddavanleemputten9232
@eddavanleemputten9232 2 месяца назад
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
@MijnWolden 2 месяца назад
Mystery solved!
@ElliLovett
@ElliLovett 5 месяцев назад
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
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
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!
@jenniferbrighty5120
@jenniferbrighty5120 4 месяца назад
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
@MijnWolden 4 месяца назад
Hi Jen, life happens and you can watch whenever you want ☺️ my mom also does that for the rows!
@AndreaAlexander
@AndreaAlexander 4 месяца назад
The addition of the little green i-cord is precious 😍 Happy Easter!!
@MijnWolden
@MijnWolden 4 месяца назад
Happy Easter to you too!
@bagladysendtheferalspinner3761
@bagladysendtheferalspinner3761 4 месяца назад
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
@MijnWolden 4 месяца назад
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
@bagladysendtheferalspinner3761 4 месяца назад
@@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!
@alexvanderpol1
@alexvanderpol1 5 месяцев назад
It's such a cute bunny! I love that you reworked the pattern and wrote it out!
@MijnWolden
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
Thank you 😁
@lucycatcat
@lucycatcat 5 месяцев назад
Omg this is so good! I love both of your bunny friends!🥕🐰
@MijnWolden
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
Thank you 😁
@TarotLadyLissa
@TarotLadyLissa 5 месяцев назад
I want to knit one with angora! A bunny made from a bunny! Haha
@MijnWolden
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
That would be very meta and flooffy!
@sonnenblumenimp
@sonnenblumenimp 4 месяца назад
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
@MijnWolden 4 месяца назад
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
@sonnenblumenimp 4 месяца назад
@@MijnWolden Ohh then I guess I'm your evil twin - because I'm a theologian who specialises in Reformation Studies!
@MijnWolden
@MijnWolden 4 месяца назад
Haha yes exactly. Gregorian reform vs. Reformation, choose your fighter!
@sonnenblumenimp
@sonnenblumenimp 4 месяца назад
@@MijnWolden (Gregorian reform is a fantastic topic! Way to go!!)
@inchb.wigglet640
@inchb.wigglet640 5 месяцев назад
I was just thinking pistachio, and then you said it!
@MijnWolden
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
😁
@afoxgloveshandiwork
@afoxgloveshandiwork 5 месяцев назад
Oh it’s cute!
@MijnWolden
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
Thank you 😁
@resourcedragon
@resourcedragon 5 месяцев назад
_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
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
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.
@Janet-ov7zx
@Janet-ov7zx 5 месяцев назад
Well done! I love that very cute bunny face 🐰. harpingJanet
@MijnWolden
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
Thank you 😁
@etienne6916
@etienne6916 5 месяцев назад
with the green tuft on the head it has some Tangy from Animal Crossing vibes :)
@MijnWolden
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
How great of a sin is it that I have never experienced animal crossing yet?
@etienne6916
@etienne6916 5 месяцев назад
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
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
I think the game would be for me if I had the time to play games...
@silverknight66
@silverknight66 5 месяцев назад
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
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
It would. The original only has one side seam though
@tracybird4547
@tracybird4547 4 месяца назад
German patterns refer to knit and purl as left and right as well…so say my German friends
@silverwitch6863
@silverwitch6863 4 месяца назад
Yup, they do. 😊 I‘m German, and this is the way I learned it too.
@MijnWolden
@MijnWolden 4 месяца назад
I did not know! How interesting
@beautyhai
@beautyhai 4 месяца назад
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
@MijnWolden 4 месяца назад
The trick is gathering them real tight 😉
@BibiClear
@BibiClear 4 месяца назад
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
@MijnWolden 4 месяца назад
That's not necessary ☺️
@countbaldwiniv
@countbaldwiniv 5 месяцев назад
Bananas!
@MijnWolden
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
🍌🍌🍌🍌
@Ane_Rikke
@Ane_Rikke 5 месяцев назад
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
@nblmqst1167 5 месяцев назад
I had the "not VERY old" thought myself. 👵 (lol)
@MijnWolden
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
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
@resourcedragon 5 месяцев назад
@@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
@MijnWolden 5 месяцев назад
@@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.
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