{"id":1806,"date":"2007-08-07T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2022-12-11T23:36:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T23:36:53","slug":"simplicity-pattern-company-licensed-toy-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/simplicity-pattern-company-licensed-toy-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplicity Pattern Company Licensed Toy Patterns &#8211; Simplicity 2921"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I am sooooooo excited!<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I was contacted by <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"Simplicity Pattern Company USA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.simplicity.com\/p-1827-crafts.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simplicity Pattern Company<\/a><\/span> in the US<\/strong>, a little while ago, about licensing some of my <strong>Funky Friends Factory Soft Toy Patterns<\/strong>. Ooooooh, this is really a\u00a0 <strong>BIG opportunity<\/strong> for me considering my Funky Friends Factory is just getting off the ground. They asked me to submit 2 versions of three of my toy patterns. Here is my box of toys, packed and ready to go to America!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18064\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"Simplicity-toy-pattern-2921-Pauline-McArthur---Funky-Friends-Factory\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Simplicity-toy-pattern-2921-Pauline-McArthur-Funky-Friends-Factory.jpg\" alt=\"Simplicity toy pattern 2921 Pauline McArthur - Funky Friends Factory\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The patterns I submitted are my 3 most popular stuffed animals. First is <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"Ellie Elephant suffed animal toy pattern\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/products\/instant-downloads\/ellie-elephant-soft-toy-sewing-pattern-instant-download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ellie Elephant<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Ellie is made of fleece fabric with corduroy highlights in the ears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image--18065 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"Simplicity-toy-pattern-2921-Elephant-Pauline McArthur\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Simplicity-toy-pattern-2921-Elephant-Pauline-McArthur.jpg\" alt=\"Simplicity toy pattern 2921 Elephant Pauline McArthur\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Ellie is an easy sewing pattern and even looks great in plain grey fleece!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18066\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"ELEPHANT-soft-toy-pattern-Simplicity 2921 Pauline McArthur\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ELEPHANT-soft-toy-pattern-Simplicity-2921-Pauline-McArthur.jpg\" alt=\"ELEPHANT soft toy pattern Simplicity 2921 Pauline McArthur\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Next is my <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/products\/instant-downloads\/lamkins-lamb-soft-toy-sewing-pattern-instant-download\"><strong>Lamkins Lamb<\/strong><\/a><\/span> stuffed animal pattern&#8230; I think my lamb pattern is my most popular<strong> baby toy pattern<\/strong>. Either there are lots and lots of babies being born, or people just like to sew baby stuff!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18067\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"lamb-toy-pattern Simplicity 2921 Pauline McArthur\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lamb-toy-pattern-Simplicity-2921-Pauline-McArthur.jpg\" alt=\"lamb toy pattern Simplicity 2921 Pauline McArthur\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8230; and last but not least (hidden underneath the bubble wrap) is my <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/products\/instant-downloads\/horsey-horse-unicorn-toy-sewing-pattern-instant-download\"><strong>Horsey Horse &amp;\u00a0 Unix the Unicorn stuffed animal pattern<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27512\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Horse-and-Unicorn-sewing-pattern.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Horse-and-Unicorn-sewing-pattern.jpg 458w, https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Horse-and-Unicorn-sewing-pattern-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"clear\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Look out the the pattern ~&gt; it&#8217;s going to be <strong>Simplicity 2921. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">WOW! Let&#8217;s hope they are a hit!!!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Can you keep fingers crossed for me?<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6647\" title=\"Pauline McArthur-with-TREX\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/Pauline-with-TREX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"142\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bye for now,<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Pauline<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6592\" title=\"White-Spacer\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/White-Spacer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"30\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sooooooo excited! I was contacted by Simplicity Pattern Company in the US, a little while ago, about licensing some of my Funky Friends Factory Soft Toy Patterns. Ooooooh, this is really a\u00a0 BIG opportunity for me considering my Funky Friends Factory is just getting off the ground. They asked me to submit 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-my-life","category-blog","category-fff-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27513,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/27513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}