Sunday 7 October 2012

Squirreling away!

 Today I spent quite a bit of time making this little chap...



for Jen, who is making a book for her children to keep them busy spotting animals on car journeys or at the zoo.  

This little chap is flying the flag for Scotland in the Star of Africa bee but he is to be found in quite a bit of Europe too - just not in much of England now and certainly not where we live in West Sussex.  His American cousin is doing  better down here instead and is a regular visitor to my garden.

Hope Jen's kids like him and get the chance to see him one day.

Have to say he turned out a bit fatter than I had intended but I think he is getting ready for winter and fattening up before his long sleep!  Ahh !  Lucky him!


25 comments:

  1. Great job and as always you captured the essence of the animal so well. Lots of red squirrels on the IoW as there are no greys there. Mind you, me and my car are responsible for reducing those numbers by one. Eeeeeek!

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  2. He's such a cutie! Only his cousins here too, bully boys!

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  3. I love squirrels and yours is adorable!

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  4. Great squirrel but my dog wouldn't like him. She spends all her days at this time of year watching them running along the fence. If only she could catch one she might calm down.

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  5. Like I said on flickr: he is just too cute!
    Can you please tell me how you got that spookey house into your header? I wanna make a new header for the season and I love Halloween!

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  6. I think you have excelled yourself with this gorgeous little chappie!
    Love him.

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  7. Aww, very cute, love the tufty bits on his ears

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  8. Great choice of fabrics for the little guy. He looks very content!

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  9. That is the cutest squirrel ever. Love it! : )

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  10. One looks like a very contented squirrel!

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  11. He's lovely! I've never seen a red one here, lots of greys though

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  12. You are so good at applique critters! Fab job!

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  13. He's brilliant, we don't have many up here nowadays, maybe further North.

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