I’m ramping up production of bunnies in the work room at the moment. I’ve got a stall at the Village Hall Spring Gift Fair and I’ve decided to make Bunnies and maybe a few chicks.
I have 3 favourite rabbit patterns and Im making several of each. The biggest is Millie Rabbit, I’ve made lots of these, including a ballerina version. The medium sized bunny is Benji, and the smallest is Minnie Bunny. I’m making them in lots of colours and giving them all little accessories – jackets, dresses , flowers and Easter eggs.
The origin of the Easter Bunny goes back to North America. The idea of an egg-giving hare went to the U.S. in the 18th century. Protestant German immigrants in the Pennsylvania Dutch area told their children about the “Osterhase” . Hase means “hare”, not rabbit, and in Northwest European folklore the “Easter Bunny” indeed is a hare. According to the legend, only good children received gifts of coloured eggs in the nests that they made in their caps and bonnets before Easter.
These bunnies make a great Easter present, packaged together with a chocolate egg.
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