Purple Day

Purple day was the 26th of march. purple day is to bring awareness and support for those suffering with epilepsy. 

                                                                                                                   

My best friend's son is only 2 and he has epilepsy and so this is cause close to my heart. Because I love crochet almost as much as I love my friends son (but not quite) I decided to design a pattern of a purple rabbit and all profits from the sale of this rabbit will be donated to young epilepsy charity.

the pattern is available from my ETSY shop  

The pattern is a PDF download and permission is given to sell and rabbits you make from this pattern but not to copy or share the actual pattern.

I knew what I wanted to rabbit to look like and so designing the pattern was quite straight forward. The colour obviously had to be purple and I thought the grey added softness to the rabbit. One of the things I love to do to these types of designs is to add a pompom tail.

I used style craft wool because I wanted to keep the cost down for the person who will be making the rabbit. I wanted the pattern to be affordable and more accessible for the average crocheter.  I think my next step will be to put the pattern into US terms and all my patterns are in UK terms. I hope this will be an easy process and I am aiming to do it for all my designs.

It is a fairly easy pattern and if you happen to purchase it feel free to let me know how you got on with it and of course send me pictures of your rabbits.

Penelope the rabbit

Penelope the Rabbit

When first designing a soft toy my first port of call is talk to the children. After the million ideas they have given me and asking if it would be better in rainbow colours or even better if I could make the toy fly using magic yarn, I get some sense of what I am aiming to create.
I draw my design and pick the colour and then get crocheting. I tend to stick with basic stitches at first and see where it takes me. Adding details and different styles of stitches as I go. 

Depending on how much I am paying attention have to re start a few times just to make sure I get it right. So no listening to music that I want to dance to during this part of the process.

After I have made my design, I type up the pattern and then comes for me the difficult bit. giving it a name. This rabbit was named by someone else. Once a name is chosen a character is then formed. This particular rabbit was made from the Women's Institute range of yarn brought from Hobby craft, using a 3.25 hook (uk). approx. 100gms of yearn was used to make her.

It can be washed at 40 and put in the dryer on a low heat. It has small beads for eyes and a beany bottom to aid it sitting. It is 33cm tall.


If you are designing your own patterns I would suggest you write down as much information about what you are doing then when you come back to it at a later date all the information will be there. especially if you intend on selling your designs because people will want as much information as you can give them.
You can buy the pattern or the finished product at my ETSY store.
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/thehookgeek