{"id":1950,"date":"2012-05-20T13:25:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T13:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/?p=11577"},"modified":"2019-02-05T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T01:23:14","slug":"dilby-duck-pattern-gets-a-make-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/dilby-duck-pattern-gets-a-make-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilby Duck Pattern gets a make over&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been playing around with the <a title=\"Duck toy pattern \" href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/products\/instant-downloads\"><strong>Dilby Duckling pattern<\/strong><\/a> for a little while now as I wanted to be able to make him out of non-stretch fabric. There&#8217;s no need to be concerned &#8211; he&#8217;s still <strong>Dilby Duckling<\/strong> as we all know him, only a little bit <strong>bigger<\/strong>, a little<strong> simpler<\/strong> and&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">a <strong>LOT MORE more FLEXIBLE!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11578\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"DUCK-stuffed-toy-pattern\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DUCK-stuffed-toy-pattern.jpg\" alt=\"DUCK stuffed toy pattern\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Flexible? <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8230;I&#8217;d better explain! <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Well, you CAN still make up <a title=\"Duck toy pattern\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/products\/instant-downloads\"><strong>the Dilby Pattern<\/strong><\/a> using cuddly fleece fabric,\u00a0 but now you can also make your Dilby Duck from non-stretch cotton  fabrics. <strong>This means you can<\/strong> <strong>use almost any fabric<\/strong> <strong>for him now<\/strong> and you can use up all  your gorgeous quilting fabric scraps  too!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11579\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 10px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"DUCK-soft-toy-pattern\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DUCK-soft-toy-pattern.jpg\" alt=\"Duck soft toy pattern\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While I was fiddling around with the original pattern, I also made him a little bit bigger and changed his feet so they can be sewn in place by machine (rather than handsewn) which I think will make him a little quicker to sew! Overall, Dilby <strong>hasn&#8217;t really changed much<\/strong>, in fact he <strong>LOOKS the SAME,<\/strong> he&#8217;s\u00a0 just <a title=\"Duck toy pattern\" href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/products\/instant-downloads\"><strong>NEW and IMPROVED!!!!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"clear\" \/><br \/>\nAnd look how cute he looks<strong> made up in GREEN!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11580\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"Dilby-Duckling---voodoo-rabbit\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Dilby-Duckling-voodoo-rabbit.jpg\" alt=\"Dilby Duckling - voodoo rabbit\" width=\"480\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p>*** This gorgeous duck was made up by Kylie of\u00a0 <a title=\"Voodoo Rabbit\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voodoorabbit.com.au\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Voodoo Rabbit<\/strong><\/a> as their sample for their fabric showroom. I think he looks fabulous in green!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;d love to know what you think of a NON-YELLOW duck?<\/h2>\n<p><br class=\"clear\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-280\" title=\"Teddy-bear-rings\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Teddy-bear-rings.png\" alt=\"Pauline McArthur - Funky Friends Factory\" width=\"224\" height=\"218\" \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Till next time,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Sewing,<br \/>\nPauline<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter 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 have been playing around with the Dilby Duckling pattern for a little while now as I wanted to be able to make him out of non-stretch fabric. There&#8217;s no need to be concerned &#8211; he&#8217;s still Dilby Duckling as we all know him, only a little bit bigger, a little simpler and&#8230; a LOT [&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-1950","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:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}