{"id":40916,"date":"2026-10-01T04:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/?p=40916"},"modified":"2026-10-01T04:19:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:19:24","slug":"new-teddy-bear-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/new-teddy-bear-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s TESTING TIME for my NEW GRANDSON Bear pattern!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeehar! I have some exciting news! My NEW GRANDSON Bear<\/strong> pattern is ready for testing!\ud83e\udd73<\/span><\/p>\n

And my NEW teddy bear pattern has a name!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

We had some AWESOME suggestions including – Gideon, Gabe, Godfrey, Greyson, Graham, Grenville, Granchester and GIZMO!<\/span><\/p>\n

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AND the winner is…<\/span><\/p>\n

Grady the
\n<\/strong>GRANDSON BEAR!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

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\ud83c\udfc6Yeehar! There were 622 entries and 39 winners!<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Congratulations goes to: <\/span><\/p>\n

Julie Green, Nancy Henley, Cindy Randall, Susan McClure, Cat Burns, Elise Martin , Susan Charles, Sandy Hughes, Alexanra W, Denise D, Lisa Smallwood , Paula McIntosh, Sharon Williams, Charlotte Welk, Ananda-Marie Horning, Nancy Harris , Almira S, Simon, Karin Anderson, Renee Goldsby, Tatjana Stankovic , Becky Lucas Misty, Linda Mullis, Helen Giddy, Nancy Pase, Rhonda Burge, Jenn B, Edna Ann Whalen, Louise, Laura Briwer, Lexy Jonas, Donna Philo Rachel, Marian McCann, Sherri Joyce King, Paula Wright, Hearher Lutterman and Lynette Holland.<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

ALL 39 of you will receive the Grady Grandson Bear Pattern as your Prize… <\/span><\/p>\n

BUT you will have to WAIT… until the pattern has been FULLY TESTED and officially released. So you’ll need to hang on to your BASEBALL CAPS!\ud83d\ude04 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udce2Testers wanted my NEW GRANDSON Bear pattern!\ud83e\uddf8<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Look out for my next Nugget of News newsletter email – I am putting a call out for pattern testers this week!<\/span><\/p>\n

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NOW I can’t wait to see YOUR Grady GRANDSON Bears!<\/span><\/h2>\n

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\"Pauline<\/span>Till next time, happy sewing,<\/span>
\nPauline
\n<\/strong>xxx<\/strong> <\/span>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeehar! I have some exciting news! My NEW GRANDSON Bear pattern is ready for testing!\ud83e\udd73 And my NEW teddy bear pattern has a name! We had some AWESOME suggestions including – Gideon, Gabe, Godfrey, Greyson, Graham, Grenville, Granchester and GIZMO!   AND the winner is… Grady the GRANDSON BEAR!   \ud83c\udfc6Yeehar! There were 622 entries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40920,"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":[19,33,26,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-competitions-giveaways","category-fff-news","category-new-softie-patterns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/500-TESTERS-WANTED-Grady-Grandson-Bear.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40916","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=40916"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40931,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40916\/revisions\/40931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}