Ladies and Gentlemen, Happy Lollipop Tuesday.
If you’re new to the beauty that is the Lollipop Tuesday series, check out a brief explanation here. Otherwise, onward!
Today’s new attempt: Completing a craft tutorial. Task: A bunny made out of a sock.
Before I post my pathetic account and my failure of a bunny sock, I should submit a disclaimer. I attempted the “Quick Little Bunny Tutorial” featured on Elsie Marley’s Blog (linkity link) without 3 important things – a baby sock, sewing skills, and patience. Because after all, the joy of Lollipop Tuesday is in how much I absolutely suck at new things. I will learn to embrace it. You will be inspired.
Okay! To start, I had no baby sock. Thus, I found the smallest sock in my drawer and went with it. Let the record show that I am a big girl with big feet. Size 10 feet, to be exact. Thus, my bunny is… fatter… than the originally intended design.
Since my sock was a grown-up sock, it was white and dirty and gross. So to start, I dyed it black. In honor of Martin Luther King’s birthday.
Those are my good kitchen tongs.
I was presented with a rather large problem after this dyeing session. Namely – where to put the dye. An attempt at rinsing it down the tub dyed the tub black, a security deposit blunder that I’m still trying to undo with a good old fashioned bottle of Clorox even as I write this.
I freaked out, ran to Dave, and asked him what to do with the evidence. Without hesitation, he replied that I should flush it down the toilet. And you know what? It worked.
All right – sock is dyed, dye is down toilet, bathtub is soaking.
I have absolutely no patience for anything in life, and didn’t feel like waiting for the sock to dry… so I stuffed it and sewed it while it was dripping wet. Besides a bad case of granny fingers, I saw no negative repercussions to this.
For some reason, the logo "Hue," which was green before the dye job, turned bright yellow. Chemistry is a bewildering magic.
I feel as if I should reiterate that I have absolutely no sewing skills. So every time Elsie’s tutorial said “make a running stitch,” I just ignored it and ran the thread around, through, up, and down every which way until it kind of looked like it was supposed to.
Behold the Big, Fat, Lumpy Bunny
And voila: A big, fat, lumpy bunny made out of an old sock. I think it speaks volumes about the clarity of Elsie’s tutorial that I did not pursue this project with any degree of passion and had absolutely no sewing skills and yet somehow my end result actually resembles an adorable bunny. Minus the adorable.
End result: Down one security deposit, up one useless sock bunny. Bids start at a penny. ♣
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