{"id":2144,"date":"2018-05-01T01:32:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T15:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/?p=25449"},"modified":"2020-12-30T12:36:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T12:36:37","slug":"soft-toys-city-culture-2-bella-nonna-island-batik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/soft-toys-city-culture-2-bella-nonna-island-batik\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft Toys sewn in batik fabric range ~ City Culture 2 by Bella Nonna for Island Batik!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the funky &#8216;textures&#8217; of the <strong>City Culture 2<\/strong> batik fabric range designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellanonnaquilt.com\/fabrics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Bella Nonna<\/span><\/strong><\/a> for Island Batik!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25453 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/City-Culture-2-fabric-line.jpg\" alt=\"City-Culture-2-fabric-line\" width=\"571\" height=\"474\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jayme Crow and her daughter Megan are the fabric designers behind Bella Nonna and they live in Washington USA.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25456 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Jayne-and-Megan-CROW.jpg\" alt=\"Jayne and Megan CROW\" width=\"200\" height=\"289\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25452 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bella-Nonna.png\" alt=\"Bella Nonna\" width=\"280\" height=\"213\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">This colourful fabric range would look amazing made up in most of my toy patterns&#8230;. BUT look how cute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/products\/instant-downloads\/ozzie-octopus-softies-sewing-pattern-instant-download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Ozzie Octopus<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/larry-the-lion-soft-toy-sewing-pattern-instant-download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Larry Lion<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/products\/instant-downloads\/stu-the-sea-turtle-stuffed-toy-sewing-pattern-instant-download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Stu Sea Turtle<\/span><\/strong><\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/products\/instant-downloads\/llama-alpaca-toy-sewing-pattern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Alice Alpaca<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/products\/instant-downloads\/ellie-elephant-soft-toy-sewing-pattern-instant-download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Ellie Elephant<\/span><\/strong><\/a> turned out!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_Unwig-65Gk\/WsZTVqqezNI\/AAAAAAACqPs\/1i5yfN7swhU2vs93-pqziXJhvKDCFqsUwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/Screenshot_1b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25466 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Funky-Friends-sewn-by-CalicoJoan.jpg\" alt=\"Funky Friends sewn by CalicoJoan\" width=\"499\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><!--more--><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\">\n<p>These cute Funky Friends were s ewn by CalicoJoan of <a href=\"https:\/\/moosestashquilting.blogspot.com.au\/2018\/04\/city-culture-2-with-bella-nonna-design.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Moosestash Quilting<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. She&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islandbatik.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Island Batik<\/span><\/strong><\/a> Ambassador and been stitching for over 50 years! She says her goal is to inspire and entertain &#8230;.. and this is what she had to say about sewing these Funky Friends<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I had &#8220;sew&#8221; much fun working with these fun &#8220;Island Batik&#8221; fabrics designed by &#8220;Bella Nonna Design Studio&#8221;. As a quilter, \u00a0immediately my mind starts thinking about the next quilt, these fabrics could bring to life but there is so much more&#8230; While it might be called CITY Culture 2 &#8211; I got to walk on the wild side. <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">This bunch of willd ones are from the &#8220;Funky Friends Factory&#8221;. <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Pauline has a fun line of &#8220;softies&#8221; for young and old. I bet you never thought of using batik in &#8220;softies&#8221;. \u00a0They work well\u00a0 for these bright and cheery critters!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\">And what a cool name is Moosstash!!! \ud83d\ude00<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25465\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Moose-Stash-Quilting-Washington-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Moosestash Quilting Washington\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I just love the bright colours of these batik fabrics for sewing Funky Friends because I think they give the toys such a\u00a0 &#8216;textured&#8217; look in a woven fabric<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">!<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What Funky Friend do you think you would make in batik?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><br class=\"clear\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" 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\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bye for now<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">xxx<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> Pauline<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving the City Culture 2 Batiks by Bella Nonna!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-day-in-my-life","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Funky-Friends-sewn-by-CalicoJoan.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","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=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17292,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/17292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}