I'm putting together a box of Easter candy for one of my international blog-friends who sent me two (two! yes, I am spoiled rotten ... ) surprise boxes of German Christmas gingerbread, chocolates, and all sorts of delicious things.

Except for getting underpants every year, I have fond memories of getting my basket full of candy (and underpants) on Easter morning, and I want to give Isa a tiny taste of that joy.  Along with the candy eggs, Peeps, and a chocolate bunny, I wanted to add something small that I made into the box.

This is what I ended up with.  I love this bunny so much!  I layered two pieces of fabric, on top of that I put a piece of tear-away stabilizer which had the bunny traced on it, then stitched the outline, tore away the stabilizer, trimmed the pink fabric away around the edge of the stitching.  Cake!  It took about 30 minutes total.

Well, cake except for the first version which sucked royally and took hours!  ;)  I tried just sewing the outline on a piece of fabric, but the bunny got lost in the busy print.  Then I thought I'd fill in the bunny-spaces, but that was looking horrible the more I stitched.  So I decided to start over.  ... although I thought that little flower on his bum was cute ...

The little fabric squares were in a box of crafty scraps that ... someone (cripes, I can't remember) ... sent to me.  There are a handful of them already cut and ironed for a quilt in bright pinks.  I'm so happy I finally used a couple of them.

The bunny art came from this Dover Book (which I bought for a dollar during a book sale last year. score!). As you can see, I simplified the lines for my patch.  Sometimes I totally feel like using clip art is cheating, but really, these books are awesome. Especially when you aren't world's best artist.

I'm not the only stitcher that has used this book.  Do you recognize the rooster on the cover of this book?

It was terribly hard to restrain myself from titling this post with some snarky "Everybunny"  kind of title.  The only thing that saved the day was that I couldn't come up with something sufficiently funny.  I am *so* not a holiday person (remember these?), but looking at all the Eastery things at the store through different eyes to pick out what I should send Isa has made all the holiday excess almost bearable.  Almost.