Well, 2006 looks like being the year of challenging myself. Not only I have I felted for the first time and started a blog, but I’ve decided to attempt my first softie!<\/p>\n
Actually, making a softie is surprisingly confronting. You see, my Mum’s a visual artist (painting \/ drawing). I know she tries hard to steer away from commercial art. And a softie \/ plushy \/ stuffie is surely commercial art – cutesy, kitschy art at that. I guess commercial art would be almost too easy for Mum – she can do fine detail, perfectionist accuracy and patience, it’s just not what interests her. Whereas for me, trying to be a perfectionist is quite a challenge. So that’s why I’m trying a softie.<\/p>\n
To keep me on track & give myself a deadline, I thought I’d enter it into a Month of Softies. I’ve been reading about how MoS started here<\/a>, ogling the galleries here<\/a>. I was thinking my first softie might be a rabbit, but the theme for February is a “Heart-shaped Box<\/a>“. Hmm, I can’t really see a rabbit as a box, heart-shaped or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, 2006 looks like being the year of challenging myself. Not only I have I felted for the first time and started a blog, but I’ve decided to attempt my first softie! Actually, making a softie is surprisingly confronting. You see, my Mum’s a visual artist (painting \/ drawing). I know she tries hard to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}