{"id":101,"date":"2004-06-24T21:29:28","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T02:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/pattern-work\/"},"modified":"2004-06-24T21:29:28","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T02:29:28","slug":"pattern-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/pattern-work\/","title":{"rendered":"pattern work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am working on a design change in my doll pattern- most of the dolls I&#8217;ve done so far have had what I think of as a shoulder plate- I was originally inspired by china head dolls. I hand-stitched the head and shoulders onto the body (after stuffing and needle-sculpting the head), adjusting the angle of the head which gave the doll some of it&#8217;s attitude.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"399\" height=\"546\" border=\"0\" alt=\"head1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/head1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am now trying to machine stitch the head to the body at the point that the body and the neck meet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"606\" border=\"0\" alt=\"head2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/head2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lots of other doll patterns do this.  I tried it with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cozy.org\/pics\/agnes\">Agnes<\/a>.  After the neck is sewed onto the body, I stuff everything- it seems harder so far.  I guess I am trying it to see if I think it gives me more control and predictability.  I am trying to make a baby right now- so pretty much no neck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am working on a design change in my doll pattern- most of the dolls I&#8217;ve done so far have had what I think of as a shoulder plate- I was originally inspired by china head dolls. I hand-stitched the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/pattern-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"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=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}