{"id":86,"date":"2005-03-31T23:54:32","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T23:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2015-08-12T21:09:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T10:09:21","slug":"marchs-month-of-softies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/03\/31\/marchs-month-of-softies\/","title":{"rendered":"March&#8217;s Month of Softies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scrambling under the wire again&#8230; this is my entry for Loobylu&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130113200557\/http:\/\/loobylu.com\/softies\/index.html\">Month of Softies<\/a> for March. The theme was self-portrait of the artist as a young child.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/sd2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3383\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/02\/28\/my-white-rabbit-for-februarys-month-of-softies\/sd2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/sd2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"350,436\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sd2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/sd2.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3383\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/sd2.jpg\" alt=\"sd2\" width=\"350\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/sd2.jpg 350w, https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/sd2-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say it looks very like me, but the essentials are there &#8211; round face, blonde hair, button nose, tom-boy. The Fair-isle vest is made from an an unfinished jumper that I rediscovered when I was rummaging for fabric. I knitted it years ago in Scotland and I had completely forgotten about it. The vest is a kind of present to myself, because when I was young one of my aunts made stripy vests out of odds and ends of wool for my brother, and I always fancied one for myself.<\/p>\n<p><u>Update:<\/u> I took some better daytime photos yesterday, much better than the midnight one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/03\/Tree-climbing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3373\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/03\/31\/marchs-month-of-softies\/tree-climbing\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/03\/Tree-climbing.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,598\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa 2.0&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tree climbing\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/03\/Tree-climbing.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3373\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/03\/Tree-climbing.jpg\" alt=\"Tree climbing\" width=\"400\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/03\/Tree-climbing.jpg 400w, https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/03\/Tree-climbing-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/03\/31\/marchs-month-of-softies\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-86 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/03\/31\/marchs-month-of-softies\/doll-close-up\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/03\/Doll-close-up-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/03\/Doll-close-up-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/03\/Doll-close-up-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/03\/Doll-close-up.jpg 400w\" 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class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/03\/31\/marchs-month-of-softies\/day-dreaming\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/03\/Day-dreaming-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"3370\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/03\/31\/marchs-month-of-softies\/day-dreaming\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/03\/Day-dreaming.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,310\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa 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The theme was self-portrait of the artist as a young child. I can&#8217;t say it looks very like me, but the essentials are there &#8211; round face, blonde hair, button nose, tom-boy. The Fair-isle vest is made from an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[184,20,4,14],"tags":[1388,216,179,186],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft","category-make","category-puppetry","category-puppets","tag-craft","tag-make-self-portrait","tag-puppetry-puppets","tag-softies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-1o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}