{"id":557,"date":"2006-08-16T18:18:44","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T23:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/more-on-the-fairies\/"},"modified":"2006-08-16T18:18:44","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T23:18:44","slug":"more-on-the-fairies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/more-on-the-fairies\/","title":{"rendered":"more on the fairies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on these all day yesterday.  Stuffed with wool.  Wool dust is everywhere now.  Sewed closed on the back-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sewed\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/8:16:sewed.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next they got their sexy figures and a start on their faces.  I put pins in for their eyes before I embroider them in.  It makes them seem more alive.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"5dolls\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/8:16:5dolls.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very fussy with the faces so I do a lot of picking out stitches.  The purple\/lilac body doll is one of the fairies from the <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/\">first series<\/a> I did in February.  I embroidered a face, gave her  some hair and embellished her with trim&#8230; but it wasn&#8217;t working for me.  First she sat around for 5 months or so, then I took off the trim.  More waiting then off with the hair, and finally yesterday, as I was working on these other ones, off with her face.  Here we are, starting over.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"face1\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/8:16:face1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And another.  I am happy with the lips and the noses so far today.  I am working on the eyes.  Next it will be eyebrows and hair.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"face2\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/8:16:face2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on these all day yesterday. Stuffed with wool. Wool dust is everywhere now. Sewed closed on the back- Next they got their sexy figures and a start on their faces. I put pins in for their eyes before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/more-on-the-fairies\/\">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":[5,8,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"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=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}