Bunny rug

I have never heard of a four year old asking for a hooked rug but apparently watching me hook rugs gave Lucas the idea that he wanted his own rug.  And of course it had to be one depicting his favorite animal, a bunny.  So when he asked me if I would make him a bunny rug I said, "Of course!"   He immediately wanted to cut the wool strips for it.  I tried to explain that "these things take preparation and time" but what is time to a four year old?  He had a bee in his bonnet so we cut a few wool strips just to satisfy him that the bunny rug was on its way to becoming reality.

A few days later when he came to visit he looked around and whispered in my ear, "Where's my bunny rug?"  And a week later at his birthday party he opened all his presents with apparent joy but a moment later he whispered into my ear, "Oma, you forgot my bunny rug."  Obviously, this bunny rug was not the whim of a moment.  So Oma got to work.  It had to be a small bunny rug because large ones just take too long.  But small ones are doable and here, at last, is Lucas' bunny rug.  Of course Micah wanted a rug, too, and when I vetoed the idea of a ninjago rug (whatever that is) and a few other flash in the pan ideas he agreed to a squirrel rug.  That one is still in the works.  Thanks to my talented friend Mary Johnson of Designs in Wool for the delightful patterns.