Another successful and creative round of Backtack has just come to a close. In this round, some strict rules were imposed: A softie preferrably using a pattern supplied by Backtack of which we had kind permission from Hillary at Wee Wonderfuls to use two of her patterns, it must be made from black and/or white fabric with an additional 20% that could be in one other colourway, it must have 5 buttons on it, and have the initial of the person they were sending to on it. The backtack organsiers liked the idea that out of a strict set of rules, comes some immense creativity.

And we were right - the softies that have been flown across the world over the last few months are diverse, creative, challenging for some, unique and definately all very covetable. You can see the full gallery at flickr, and see how much variance you can get on the one common theme. This has been a great BT to run, and have people participate in, and the feedback we’ve had from players suggests they got just as much out of it as well.

We’ve been so enthused by everyones response to this one, that we decided through the course of BT3 running, to hold a little competition. We picked out 5 finalists, and the public voted for who they thought was the best. Our winner was Pijije (photo above) with a printed doll which is just too cute!

Watch out for further Backtack fun later on in the year.

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