Rabbit Vest (detail)

Diane's Notes on Rabbit Vest:

A Client's request for a vest design set off another series that now numbers an even dozen.

Because durability was of prime importance, I was forced to change my focus from long floating pattern stitches to more traditional tent stitch. The new challenge was shading and incorporating pattern using tent stitch.

The rabbit uses a technique called tweeding, stitching with two different colors in your needle at one time.

The Front (Click on picture to change views)

The small rose wall paper-like pattern exhoes the large rambling wild roses decorating the edge.

The Back (Click on picture to change views)

The rose patterned shawl is counted from a chart and the blanket the rabbit is sitting on is done free form as one might paint (as Kaffe Fasset might do).

Copyright 1995, Diane M. Schultz

last updated November 8, 1997