Make Your Own Dust Bunny (Mak'kuro Kurosuke)

As seen on Ghibli's "My Neighboor Totoro", dust bunnies, also known as Mak'kuro kurosuke, are fluffy ghosts that inhabits dark places like attics and basements.

Making a dust bunny takes less than 1 hour and it's pretty easy to do.

To make a dust bunny you'll need:

- dark wool (black, dark brown, dark blue..)
-scissors
-cardboard
-a pen to draw the pattern
-a big and a small round object to draw the pattern (saucers, coins, CD's..)
-eyes that can be made by yourself or bought in stores.

Start drawing the pattern of your dust bunny:

- with a saucer, draw a circle with +/- 3 diameter.
-with a smaller round object , draw another circle inside of the first one.
-make two of these patterns. Make sure they are identical.
-cut them "!

-put the two patterns together
-cut a long piece of wool (+/- 2,5 meters) , and tie it on the two patterns, like the images below.
-roll the wool all around the patterns.
-if the wool run out before you full filled the patterns, don't worry, just cut another piece of wool and continue.
-you can roll as many wool as you want, in order to make it more fluffy.

-now you gotta have tons of patience.
-carefully, start cutting the wool, passing the scissor through the middle of the two patterns.
-don't let the wool get out of the patterns.
-Then, pass another piece of wool around the middle of the patterns to tie. Remember to tie really, really, REALLY STRONGLY.

-now with the wool tied strongly =), remove the patterns carefully.
-use your hands to make it round and uniform.
-with your scissor, cut the remaining pieces of wool.

-with paper and pens, make two eyes for the dust bunny.
-You can buy little eyes in handcraft stores.
- to fix the eyes , use hot glue or stitch it yourself.

-Voil�, your own dust bunny is finished. They like to live in flock, so make tons of them! :*