{"id":10781,"date":"2017-02-26T16:10:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T21:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=10781"},"modified":"2017-02-26T16:10:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T21:10:41","slug":"hey-look-a-merman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2017\/02\/hey-look-a-merman\/","title":{"rendered":"hey look, a merman!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tried something new- a twist on my man pattern. I&#8217;ve been thinking about it for a long while now and finally got to figuring out the tweaks and sewing him up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10787\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"2-26-merman 1 - 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is fun to go through my supplies- which toile would work for a sea creature? Which patterns and colors would make a good tail? And sea hair, what does that look like? What about trims?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10786\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"2-26-merman 1 - 1 (1)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-1-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the back of his hair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10783\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-4.jpg\" alt=\"2-26-merman 1 - 1 (4)\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-4-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-4-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like how the rick rack works but I found a lot of other trims that I will experiment with too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10784\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"2-26-merman 1 - 1 (3)\" width=\"600\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-3-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am excited at all the possibilities. That is what keeps me interested and making.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10785\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"2-26-merman 1 - 1 (2)\" width=\"600\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-2-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought that skeletons on a boat, pirate skeletons, worked well for the underwater theme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10782\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-5.jpg\" alt=\"2-26-merman 1 - 1 (5)\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-5-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-merman-1-1-5-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are more in the pipeline!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tried something new- a twist on my man pattern. I&#8217;ve been thinking about it for a long while now and finally got to figuring out the tweaks and sewing him up. It is fun to go through my supplies- &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2017\/02\/hey-look-a-merman\/\">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":[5,7],"tags":[458,459],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781"}],"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=10781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10788,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions\/10788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}