New Digital Pattern to Try

I'm testing a new shopping cart for selling digital patterns.  Remember Lucy and Ethel, the Sundrop Lop-eared Bunnies?  You can now get a digital version of this pattern for $1.00 -- that's half the cost of the printed pattern.

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Give it a try!  And let me know how it goes.

Sandy

It's Been a Long Time, but I'm Back at Work

Blogger says I haven't posted since May -- almost a year!  Eeks!  A lot has happened between now and then. Trials and tribulations with hip bursitis and two deaths in the family, including my mother's in December.  Just as I was preparing to get back to work, nature dumped two feet of snow in my area.  Snow is rare here and we're not prepared to handle two feet of it.  I was essentially de-mobilized for three weeks waiting for it to melt enough so that I could get to my little office. 

When I finally got to my office and laptop last week, I discovered that the shopping cart is not working on my website. When it rains, it pours!  The shopping cart company I've been using for nearly 20 years is not responding to my inquiries, so I'm now looking at alternatives.  I hope to have something up and running next week, even if it's only a temporary solution offering my most popular patterns.

I'm also planning to get the Sundrop Critters feature going again, including a Sundrop Critters Redux that gives a fresh look to some of my favorite critters from the past.  Misty the Mouse is the first one scheduled.  She is so cute in her new looks -- perfect for the nursery and for anyone who happens to like mice!

So stay tuned because I'm getting the proverbial ball rolling again!

Sandy

New Sundrop Critter: Vicuna

The newest critter to the Sundrop zoo is Val the Vicuna (also spelled vicugna).  (The "n" in vicuna is the Spanish letter en-yay but I can't find a symbol for it on Blogger.) Vicunas are the smallest member of the camelid family, weighing about 150 pounds when full grown.  They are native to South America where they live wild in the higher alpine regions of the Andes Mountains.  Their coats come in a variety of shades of brown, with white bellies and inner legs, and a white "bib" of hair that is longer than that on most of the body.  Some have legs that are all light in color, especially the lower half of the leg.  And most have white muzzles and white throats.  Some have other white markings on the face or on their sides.  I chose to simplify this pattern and focused on the most important attributes.  (Maybe someday I'll design a more realistic version.)  They also have long, dark eyelashes - the kind we girls envy!

Vicuna fleece makes some of the finest and warmest yarn in the world and is therefore very high-priced, making the vicuna susceptible to poaching.  In the 1970's, their numbers were so low that the vicuna was listed as an endangered species.  Efforts through local people and several organizations worldwide curbed the poaching enough that the vicuna population has grown and is no longer considered endangered.  Organized round-ups are conducted every few years to shear the fleece.  It is then sold, with most of the profits going back to the local communities.

This pattern is free through May 31, 2017 on my website: sundropdesigns.net

Coloring B - perhaps a little more true to nature