{"id":13426,"date":"2019-05-11T20:46:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T00:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=13426"},"modified":"2019-05-11T20:46:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T00:46:19","slug":"merman-for-alexander-henry-fabrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2019\/05\/merman-for-alexander-henry-fabrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Merman for Alexander Henry Fabrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thrilled to be asked to make a merman to promote the Sirenas Del Mar mer-creature contest, sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BuEutp8HMrJ\/?fbclid=IwAR2aBoDB5IIvnQ0s1SxStNU8IEiSajsoehQUHrva65SeAVTyH7yM-9W96xE\">Alexander Henry Fabrics<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arleyberryhill.com\/treasures-of-the-gypsy?fbclid=IwAR3Xl_wggKFPX0PzPTUzwJ-szXheScu3gRxsVFHjj6YtAxMtJWHtBAD8T70\">Treasures of the Gypsy<\/a>. Those links will take you to sites with info about the contest. Of course I can never make just one so I&#8217;ve been working on four. One of these fellows will make his debut at the A<a class=\"notranslate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alexanderhenryfabrics\/\">lexander Henry Fabrics<\/a> Quilt Market booth in Kansas City! The inspiration for this mer-fellow is Japanese samurai.<\/p>\n<p>First fellow-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13431\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"5-11-merman 1 - 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He has a Japanese landscape toile. You can see in this back view that he has a back fin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13429\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-6.jpg\" alt=\"5-11-merman 1 - 6\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-6.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-6-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His hair is in a samurai\/sumo style, tied at the top of his head. It was fun to work on figuring out a new hair style!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13434\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-4.jpg\" alt=\"5-11-merman 1 - 4\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-4-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13430\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-5.jpg\" alt=\"5-11-merman 1 - 5\" width=\"600\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-5-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13428\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-7.jpg\" alt=\"5-11-merman 1 - 7\" width=\"600\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-7.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-7-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His waist and side fins-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13433\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"5-11-merman 1 - 3\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-3-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and his tail-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13427\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"5-11-merman 1 - 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13432\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-8.jpg\" alt=\"5-11-merman 1 - 8\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-8.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5-11-merman-1-8-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thrilled to be asked to make a merman to promote the Sirenas Del Mar mer-creature contest, sponsored by Alexander Henry Fabrics and Treasures of the Gypsy. Those links will take you to sites with info about the contest. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2019\/05\/merman-for-alexander-henry-fabrics\/\">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":[517,458],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13426"}],"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=13426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13435,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13426\/revisions\/13435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}