{"id":14404,"date":"2020-03-31T21:11:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T01:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=14404"},"modified":"2020-03-31T21:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T01:11:01","slug":"abruptly-changing-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2020\/03\/abruptly-changing-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Abruptly Changing Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have a friend whose daughter is a nurse working on a Covid-19 unit here in Boston. There is nowhere near enough protective gear for these workers and she asked people to make scrub caps for the nurses on her unit. Now it&#8217;s personal! I cleared all the babies-in-waiting (to be finished) from my worktable, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/ScrubCapPatternPrint\/listing\/790316747\/scrub-cap-printable-pattern-without-bias?utm_campaign=Share&amp;utm_medium=social_organic&amp;utm_source=MSMT&amp;utm_term=so.smt&amp;share_time=1585435232000\">downloaded the pattern<\/a>, and that is what I&#8217;ll be focusing on this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-3-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here I am, trying on my test model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-1-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And here is 7 more, finished today. Plus another 20 cut out. I will be interested to see how many I can get done tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-4-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-4-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-4-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-31-caps-4-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently heard something along the lines of &#8220;action soothes anxiety&#8221; and I can tell you that having a positive helpful project to work on has made me feel SO much better. After these are done I will work on face masks for the people in my life. I am not sure how long it will be before I get back to dolls but at least a week. See you back here soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend whose daughter is a nurse working on a Covid-19 unit here in Boston. There is nowhere near enough protective gear for these workers and she asked people to make scrub caps for the nurses on her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2020\/03\/abruptly-changing-direction\/\">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":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404"}],"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=14404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14410,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404\/revisions\/14410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}