{"id":15326,"date":"2013-06-20T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2013\/06\/20\/birthday-card\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:12","slug":"birthday-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2013\/06\/20\/birthday-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align:left;clear:both\">\n<figure class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9027\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1359\/photo-20-jun-2013-09_43-am.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Photo 20 Jun 2013 09_43 AM\" width=\"500\" height=\"496\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9028\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1359\/photo-20-jun-2013-09_41-am.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Photo 20 Jun 2013 09_41 AM\" width=\"500\" height=\"416\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align:left;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align:left;clear:both\">It makes absolutely no sense putting this much effort into a birthday card for a three-year-old whose very touch would instantly destroy it.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to do something, though, and making a stuffed toy didn\u0092t work out at all: First, I started cutting out the pattern, then realised that there was another pattern on the back. Oh, okay, so I should photocopy it? But the pattern paper was bigger than my printer\/scanner\u0092s bed by about four times.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Right, so I used my lightbox to trace out the pattern, struggling to ignore the lines coming through from the reverse side. Then I cut out the zillion pieces of fabric\u0085 and discovered the many of the shapes were half as wide as they should be. The pattern pieces had a little box with arrows that &#8212; I guess &#8212; means \u0093This shape times two, mirrored\u0094. Or something. The book had absolutely no explanation for how to use the included patterns.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to go back to paper. I know paper. A card is pointless, but Craig already bought her a dress.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I don\u0092t know have a clue how to relate to very young kids. I\u0092m looking forward to my friends\u0092 kids and my niece being older. \u0093Oh good, you\u0092re here, we can talk, I can draw stuff for you, we can make up parameters for games, and you can stay with me? Great, let\u0092s play!\u0094<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It makes absolutely no sense putting this much effort into a birthday card for a three-year-old whose very touch would instantly destroy it. I wanted to do something, though, and making a stuffed toy didn\u0092t work out at all: First, I started cutting out the pattern, then realised that there was another pattern on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}