{"id":14594,"date":"2020-07-23T20:31:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T00:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=14594"},"modified":"2020-07-23T20:31:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T00:31:51","slug":"and-this-week-its-mermen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2020\/07\/and-this-week-its-mermen\/","title":{"rendered":"And this week, it’s mermen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, I got frustrated with the ornaments and not finishing anything and not enough time sewing and too much computer work and the state of the world… so, I’m taking a break on the ornament patterns. It’ll get done eventually but I need to be in a better\/different head space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer seems like the perfect time to make Mermen. I had body parts dyed so I’ve spent this last week putting them together. First, I pulled out a BIG pile of possible Merman colors and prints. Yeah, that’s not the half of it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sewing up some fins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also- OMG I got my scissors sharpened<\/a> today- Bliss!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fins, sewed and turned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A little bit of stuffing before I top-stitch. Everything is organized in zip-lock bags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All the fins finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then, a Merman sandwich. All pinned up and ready to sew the tail side seams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A pile, all sewed up. Now is time to clip the seams and turn right side out. I love that part!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And, tada! All the machine sewing is finished and now they are ready to be brought to life. I am really excited about the African wax print textiles I came into recently. As always I am very excited to find out who they will turn out to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a pic from my desk- all the thread colors piling up as I was sewing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, I am all over the place these days. It has been rough . I hope I can get back to posting more because that’ll mean I’m making more so fingers crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I got frustrated with the ornaments and not finishing anything and not enough time sewing and too much computer work and the state of the world… so, I’m taking a break on the ornament patterns. It’ll get done eventually … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594"}],"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=14594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14605,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594\/revisions\/14605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}