{"id":518,"date":"2006-05-25T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/catching-up\/"},"modified":"2006-05-25T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T18:58:08","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>today I&#8217;ve been working on catching up with all the email correspondence- I&#8217;ve been terrible!<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;ve meant to give some great feedback for <a href=\"http:\/\/dollmakersjourney.com\/\">Dollmaker&#8217;s Journey<\/a> for fantastic service.  I needed some special fabric for a class I&#8217;m taking- I ordered on a Saturday and had it on the Monday- wow!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a not doll project I did yesterday- new placemats.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"placemats\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/5:24:mats.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m finally using some of the fabrics I&#8217;ve bought recently!  I love cotton prints, but they don&#8217;t really fit in much with the dolls I&#8217;m doing these days.  The back (or maybe they are reversible) is linen from IKEA a few years ago.  Here is the great insight of yesterday-  I struggled through sewing 2 of the mats with a million pins and still getting puckers and tucks&#8230; all of a sudden I remembered my walking foot- that amazing tool that came with my sewing machine but I had never yet tried- well, guess what- it really works!  The 6 that I did after that came out much better!<\/p>\n<p>Here they are on the table, along with some of my old art i.e. my pottery that got broken and turned into a mosaic hot dish holder.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"table\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/5:24:table.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a picture of the kitchen window on a spring evening-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"window\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/5:24:window.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today I&#8217;ve been working on catching up with all the email correspondence- I&#8217;ve been terrible! Also, I&#8217;ve meant to give some great feedback for Dollmaker&#8217;s Journey for fantastic service. I needed some special fabric for a class I&#8217;m taking- I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/catching-up\/\">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":[7,8,12,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}