{"id":5408,"date":"2017-08-12T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T03:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/?p=5408"},"modified":"2017-08-12T13:01:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T03:01:46","slug":"final-farewell-sew-softie-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/2017\/08\/final-farewell-sew-softie-2017.html","title":{"rendered":"A Final Farewell to Sew a Softie 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just wanted to share a story with everyone as a last hurrah to Sew a Softie 2017.<\/p>\n

About a fortnight ago my mum, who’s 85, was out walking. Where we live, the local council organizes a collection of whatever people want to get rid of a few times a year. You just dump your unwanted possessions in front of your house and they send round a truck to cart it away, so there are piles of old furniture, books, new or broken toys, pictures, kitchenware, just tons of all different stuff all over the place.<\/p>\n

Anyway, there’s my mum walking along and poking around in these piles of fascinating stuff and she finds an old tin and inside were some discarded, and I guess once much-loved, “treasures”. There was a tiny picture notebook with nothing written in it, some plastic toy figurines and a this odd little softie made by some budding designer from an old scrap of T-shirt fabric. Our anonymous designer was obviously very young: the softie had two eyes made from buttons, one quite big and one small, (which gave it a really quirky look), no nose and a smiley mouth drawn on with a felt-tip pen.<\/p>\n

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My mum gave me the tin and its occupants, so I took them home. My daughter Yiscah (the last of my 4 children who is still at home) didn’t really take a shine to the little softie. “He looks like a voodoo doll” was her considered opinion. But I liked him or her, I couldn’t figure out which the softie was. He\/she had something and I put the little orphan on a shelf where I could see him\/her and let him or her inspire me. After a few days of subjecting myself to his\/her magical influences, I whipped up the following little amoeba softies. They don’t look that much<\/em> like their magical ancestor but their personalities are very similar. At least in my eyes. Yiscah still thinks he\/she looks like a voodoo doll.<\/p>\n

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I’m looking forward to Sew a Softie 2018!<\/p>\n

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Just wanted to share a story with everyone as a last hurrah to Sew a Softie 2017. About a fortnight ago my mum, who’s 85, was out walking. Where we live, the local council organizes a collection of whatever people want to get rid of a few times a year. You just dump your unwanted … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[240,221],"class_list":["post-5408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workshopsevents","tag-amoeba-softie","tag-sew-a-softie","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}