{"id":10086,"date":"2016-07-01T14:15:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T18:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=10086"},"modified":"2016-07-01T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T18:15:03","slug":"a-newsy-post-to-start-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2016\/07\/a-newsy-post-to-start-july\/","title":{"rendered":"a newsy post to start July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10090\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1.jpg\" alt=\"7-1-news - 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am working on more ornament designs (although I hate calling them ornaments since they are just little felt figures and could be lots of things- such as tiny toys, a baby mobile, a decorative bunting&#8230; ) and as you can see, this tray of first-try prototypes are fairy tale girls. I&#8217;ve got a lot of drawing and I&#8217;m going to work on 3-d-ing a bunch of them and we&#8217;ll see what makes it to the pattern stage. These little projects mean that my sewing machine is getting a break-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10089\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"7-1-news - 1 (1)\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-1-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and so has immediately gotten covered with supplies. And my work table- looks like it has exploded with thread, felt, and paper!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10088\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"7-1-news - 1 (2)\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-2-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of patterns, I have printed up paper copies of my non-ornament patterns and am now selling them in bulk, wholesale on Etsy. This is so shops, and doll or quilting clubs can buy them. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/295106383\/10-copies-pincushion-paper-pattern-bulk?ref=shop_home_active_6\">The listing<\/a> is for the Tiny World pattern, my most popular, but I am happy to do bulk orders for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/40972469\/fresh-fish-pillow-pattern-pdf?ref=shop_home_active_5\">fish<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/67191150\/owl-pdf-pattern-tutorial-night-friend?ref=shop_home_active_3\">owl<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/35115519\/friend-kitty-pdf-pattern-tutorial?ref=shop_home_active_1\">kitty<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/124049199\/swaddled-baby-doll-pdf-pattern-tutorial?ref=shop_home_active_6\">swaddled baby<\/a>, if that&#8217;s what you&#8217;d be interested in. Send me an etsy convo or email (mimik@pobox.com) if you have any questions.<\/p>\n<p>And here is a funny story. My daughter was out for a walk in Chicago where she lives. As she was walking by a playground, she saw this so she snapped a photo and texted it to me-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10087\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"7-1-news - 1 (3)\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1-news-1-3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I know that most of my tattooed person art get hung up on the wall, but this lady is out and about, seeing the world- I LOVE it! Art in the wild= the best!<\/p>\n<p>If you live in the US, have a wonderful long weekend! I need to get down to my library today to pick up a museum pass for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icaboston.org\/\">ICA in Boston<\/a>. Hopefully I will get some art viewing on my long weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am working on more ornament designs (although I hate calling them ornaments since they are just little felt figures and could be lots of things- such as tiny toys, a baby mobile, a decorative bunting&#8230; ) and as you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2016\/07\/a-newsy-post-to-start-july\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[433,446],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10091,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions\/10091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}