Chinese New Year 2022
Silhouette
We’re making a Hitty Pull-toy to celebrate the Lunar New Year of the Tiger…by first cutting a tiger silhouette out of some stiff card…
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Tracing
…and tracing the shape onto a scrap of wood. We had some .8 cm x 12.5cm x 3.7 cmx (1/4 x 5 inches x 1 1/2 inch) cedar scraps, so that’s what we used.
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Cutting away excess
We cut away excess bits with a miter box…
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Wheels
…also cut thin rounds off of a 1 cm dowel for wheels.
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Carving shape
A little more shaping with a whittling knife and we ended up with….
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Rabbit
…a rabbit. Ooops! We had to carve more and use some sandpaper to get a more feline shape! Meanwhile we also cut a platform 4.5 cm x 2 cm, and acquired some map pins to stick the wheels on with (helpful husband snipped the tips off some bent quilting pins). We drilled holes through the wheels slightly wider in diameter than the pins…
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angled hole
…and also drilled an angled hole in the platform from the centre of the front edge about 45 degrees down through the bottom of the platform, which will be the hole to thread the pulling string through.
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Fierce
A bit more carving helped the tiger look a bit more fierce….
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Painted Tiger
…and painting helped!!
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platform and wheels painted
We painted the platform a cheerful red, and the wheels a jolly gold with red rims….
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Pull Toy
With the wheels pinned in place and a string threaded through the front hole Arianell has a sweet tiger pull-toy!
Happy Year of the Tiger!
Happy Year of the Tiger!
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Quimper Hittys 
This is great! Arianell looks very pleased!
Thank you – she is very pleased to have her own Xiao Hu!
You are totally amazing. The tiger pull toy is completely darling.
Happy New Year.
Thanks! We are glad it doesn’t look like a rabbit!
I loved this post.
Thank you so much!
Oh! How very delightful your tiger pull-toy turned out. What a splendid way to bring in the new Chinese year. I am always grateful to read your tutorials on how to do things. Ah, you help things to become so manageable! Love it!
It wasn’t too tricky, but I was glad that I had that little miter box!
Lucky Arianell, she has a wonderful toy to play with!
She is lucky, I think she will like pulling it around and entertaining the very little Hitty kids.
A wonderful addition to all the cats in the household !
Exactly! We thought so too!
How beautiful, great art work dear Hitty Lady, as always loved them so much. Thank you, Love, nia
Thank you Nia! We love our little felines, even little tigers!
welcome, I love too… Thank you, have a nice day, Love, nia
you are amazing. Happy New Year to you and all the Hittys. I’m not letting my bears see this or they will be demanding pull toys too.
Just a little (a very little) February fun!
That’s adorable! The tiger’s a marvellous combination of fierce and cute, and I really like how Arianell is dressed for good fortune in red and gold!
The poor thing hasn’t quite got over the ignominy of resembling a rabbit, and is feeling permanently fierce about that…and Arianell loves her celebration dress, made from a scrap from my late Mother-in-law.
You are utterly amazing 🤩
Oh, go on, you’re making me blush…but thanks!
Oh, I love this so much! Happy new year!
Thanks so much – Happy New Year to you too!
lovely. Thank you for sharing the process – one of my favourite things 🙂
Thanks, Dawn – a scrap of this and a scrap of that all adds up to fun in the Hitty Cupboard!
So adorable ❤️Thanks for sharing this site with me!
Thanks so much, Alice!
how clever..and what a fierce little tiger!! such a fun project
It was a fun little project, and not too difficult since we had materials and equipment lying around!