Bunnicula Swap

Wow, the USPS has floored me (in a good way this time) by getting my swap package to the recipient practically the next day! She received the package yesterday before lunch, and I hadn't even dropped it at the post office until Saturday afternoon.

The package was for the Children's Books Swap ran by the Odd Duck Swap Group on Ravelry. Ladymay's (her Ravelry name) original partner had bailed on the swap after she'd already received a package for it (as this particular person had done with a few other swaps) so I volunteered to make ladymay's package.

After a little sleuthing, I decided to theme the package specifically around the children's book series about the "vampire" bunny, Bunnicula. I had remembered seeing a Bunnicula cartoon when I was a kid, but I have never read (nor even knew about) the Bunnicula books. Ladymay, like myself, has a pet bunny, and she is also a fan of vampires, so it seemed like a good choice from her list of favorite kids' books.

For the package, I knitted a Bunnicula from a pattern where you basically make a bunny out of a knitted square. It's pretty clever, and I'm mostly pleased with how it turned out. I kinda messed up the placement of the widow's peak in relation to his ears, but I am otherwise satisfied.

I also knitted two "veggie victims"--a tomato and celery with fang marks. In the books, Bunnicula sucks the juice out of vegetables instead of eating them. Other items I included: two of the Bunnicula books, a handmade bookmark, a bunny treat for her bunny, some handmade bunny stitch markers from an Etsy seller, and two skeins of green silk-wool blend yarn.