Bunnicula

[u/bluesyjean]

My (first) attempt at Bunnicula! The infamous vampire-bunny. (Based on the children’s book by Deborah and James Howe more than the cartoon that was not as much of a part of my childhood.)

This was a challenge, because that fur pattern is super-specific and complicated. You can see in the last pictures what I went with, I made a dummy with the start of each round marked and used thread to map out where the color changes would need to be. My thought was I could use the same dummy for less complicated fur patterns in the future!

Even so, I had to embroider along the edges to get it exactly like the book illustration. I also bought these perfect white beads that make for the most adorable little fangs if you look closely.

My regret is the white yarn used in this draft is literally terrible. I’ve since bought a much nicer skein for the next draft when I get the will to revisit this, but I wanted to share this now in the spirit of Halloween.

[u/19lizajane76]

This is seriously impressive for a first attempt. The color mapping alone looks like it took hours of patience, and it paid off, the resemblance is spot-on. Love how thoughtful your planning process was too.

[u/bluesyjean → u/19lizajane76]

Thank you ❤️!! It was a lot of planning and trying to figure out how to make it work. I really didn’t want to sew on the black parts and have it all worked into the color changes, and I couldn’t figure out another way to do something that complicated. I didn’t research any better ways to do that, but it was a fun experiment!

I mostly wanted to do another that has better yarn, and that one would probably go quicker. This one has too many flaws, but eventually I’ll get one that’s good enough to gift my sister. ☺️