{"id":563,"date":"2006-08-30T16:04:11","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T21:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/fat-fairy-6-spring\/"},"modified":"2006-08-30T16:04:11","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T21:04:11","slug":"fat-fairy-6-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/fat-fairy-6-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"fat fairy 6- Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing the latest fairy.  She reminds me of the colors of early spring.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ff6\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/8:30:ff6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I embroidered her eyebrows since her last appearance-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ff6 face\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/8:30:face.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I made her hair out of old sewing thread.  I have lots of old cotton thread from my mom and mother-in-law.  Most of it is not useable on the sewing machine- it breaks too easily or is cut or one even had been scribbled on with crayon.  I plied a number of colored threads together (including a pink and a green) and embroidered the back.  The edging is a lot of the thread, twisted together and stitched in place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hair\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/8:30:hair.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>her wings-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"wings\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/8:30:wings.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and a side view-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"side\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/8:30:ff6side.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was fighting with the skirt.  For some reason it wasn&#8217;t working right, so I turned it around and tied it in the front.  Better!  The green trim on her bodice edging is an old piece of trim I found in my parents&#8217; basement when we were cleaning it out.  I think it is probably from the fifties.  I also used it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mimik\/11949809\/in\/set-431018\/\">the chimera<\/a> I made for Month of Softies, so long ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing the latest fairy. She reminds me of the colors of early spring. I embroidered her eyebrows since her last appearance- I made her hair out of old sewing thread. I have lots of old cotton thread from my mom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/fat-fairy-6-spring\/\">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":[5,7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"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=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}