{"id":664,"date":"2007-03-31T10:46:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T15:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/trillium-girl-doll-5\/"},"modified":"2007-03-31T10:46:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T15:46:15","slug":"trillium-girl-doll-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/trillium-girl-doll-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Trillium- girl doll #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image806\" alt=\"330trillium.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/330trillium.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m fickle.  I think I have a new favorite&#8230; not such a bad thing really- what I have just finished is often my favorite.  This is Trillium.  She is 19 1\/2 inches tall.  She is made of wool knit with wool flowers and leaves appliqued onto her torso.  Her skirt is made of cotton organdy and <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=scrim&#038;r=66\">scrim<\/a> with some vintage rayon tape for a bow-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image805\" alt=\"330torso.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/330torso.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I would have finished this doll yesterday morning, but I got sidetracked with the skirt.  I wanted a certain texture and color and ended up spending time playing with dyes and paint- fun!<\/p>\n<p>I took various sheer fabrics and any red dye I could find in my stash and experimented.  The fabric I ended up used is organdy and started out orange.  I over-dyed it with dye labeled scarlet.  Then I painted it with washes of acrylic paint.  Stripes and dots.  The skirt is 3 layers- on top is the painted organdy, then a bronze sort of color scrim and, on the bottom, a dark purple scrim.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image804\" alt=\"330skirt.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/330skirt.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a view of her back-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image802\" alt=\"330back1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/330back1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and a close-up of her face-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image803\" alt=\"330face.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/330face.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are 2 more pictures of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/mimik\/440796532\/\">her<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/mimik\/440796518\/in\/photostream\/\">here<\/a> on Flickr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;m fickle. I think I have a new favorite&#8230; not such a bad thing really- what I have just finished is often my favorite. This is Trillium. She is 19 1\/2 inches tall. She is made of wool &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/trillium-girl-doll-5\/\">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\/664"}],"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=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}