Rabbits Prefer Chocolate

I finally got the gumption to peek under the lid of that UFO bin, and guess what I found?

True confession time:

An old applique project that just needed a small amount of work to be completed.

Really.

What was I thinking to let this one get set aside?

Over the weekend I was able to finish up the little bit of applique needed on one border.

And then to do the embroidery work on the individual blocks.

Most of the bunnies just needed their eyes.

By Anne Sutton

Rabbits Prefer Chocolate is my most favorite pattern from Bunny Hill Designs.

Anne is such a terrific designer, and I remember absolutely falling in love with her work when I first saw it.

There are a few more details that will be added once the quilt is quilted.

The wheels will have buttons for spokes.

And the original pattern shows quite a bit of ribbon work that is best added later, too.

The bunnies remind me so much of the chocolate bunnies I gave my children each Easter morning in their baskets.

I loved picking out fabrics to make each bunny unique from the others.

So many beautiful chocolate brown fabrics.

Quilt complete and now ready to be quilted.

I figure I'm either veerrry late to decorate for the last few years of Easter, or I'm quite early for Easter 2012.