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2024 October Plushies Newsletter
Thu, 17 Oct 2024
I'm not usually going to build the newsletter draft publicly, but I figure it is worthwhile to see what is coming up. The actual newsletter will go out on the 25th.
October Shop Drop
Sunday's shop drop will include:
Tiny Peacock Dragon (2" Standing Adult, thread-jointed)
Purple Witch Dragon (4" Standing Adult, embellished)
Strawberry Frawg (7" Minimalist Frog, strawberri mochi)
Batty Bunny (8" Bunny Lop, skull face and bat ears)
I miiiiiight have a couple more bunnies, we'll see. It's a small drop this month because I haven't been working toward stocking up yet.
November Previews
I am shooting to have one of the art-doll dragons ready to go every month, and November's will be the Celestial Dragon. I'm more than a little disturbed that I went to look for its progress pictures in the blog and realized the entries about it are from 2019. That can't possibly be right. (Okay, I did kinda burn out hard on the velvet dragons.) At any rate, if I can come up with all its pieces, and wings that I'm happy with, that'll be the drop's centerpiece.
If you have been a long-time collector of my dragons, you'll have noticed that the dragons look a little different - the Tiny Peacock obviously is one of the jointed ones, but even the Purple Witch has different feet. That's the version I'm putting together for my embroidery-design folks, and I hope to be able to tell you soon that you can buy them from other people. But in the course of writing the tutorial and making cover images, I'll be making a number of basic dragons in different sizes, so some of those will land in the shop drop. If you want the older "paw" style, I will always still make those to order as well.
As you might suspect, the November drop will have any bunnies that don't make it into October, and hopefully a lot more besides - I have a lot of fun fabrics.
Join me where the skies are blue!
If you've followed my blog for any length of time, you know the current incarnation of Silver Seams basically happened because of Mastodon, a Twitter replacement I joined in 2017. Folks there really liked the beanie dragons and convinced me to put them on Etsy, and things went from there.
I jumped ship for Bluesky in November 2023, and it's really taking off. I run a couple of Feeds there (the curated timelines that supplement your following timeline) including one of plushie/art doll makers. Interested? This Starter Pack will get you going. You can pick and choose who to follow from it, or just import the whole thing and unfollow individual accounts if they're not to your taste.
