Well, 2006 looks like being the year of challenging myself. Not only I have I felted for the first time and started a blog, but I’ve decided to attempt my first softie!

Actually, making a softie is surprisingly confronting. You see, my Mum’s a visual artist (painting / drawing). I know she tries hard to steer away from commercial art. And a softie / plushy / stuffie is surely commercial art – cutesy, kitschy art at that. I guess commercial art would be almost too easy for Mum – she can do fine detail, perfectionist accuracy and patience, it’s just not what interests her. Whereas for me, trying to be a perfectionist is quite a challenge. So that’s why I’m trying a softie.

To keep me on track & give myself a deadline, I thought I’d enter it into a Month of Softies. I’ve been reading about how MoS started here, ogling the galleries here. I was thinking my first softie might be a rabbit, but the theme for February is a “Heart-shaped Box“. Hmm, I can’t really see a rabbit as a box, heart-shaped or not.