{"id":706,"date":"2007-07-25T18:44:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T23:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/i-think-im-hooked\/"},"modified":"2007-07-25T18:44:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T23:44:58","slug":"i-think-im-hooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/i-think-im-hooked\/","title":{"rendered":"I think I&#8217;m hooked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found it hard to stop, once I got started.  So, I have lots of new fabric to play with (or trade or whatever)!<\/p>\n<p>These are the ones I mailed off to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bitterbettyindustries.blogspot.com\/\">Bitter Betty<\/a> today for the swap-<\/p>\n<p>1. pears printed on light blue- this is showing half of the fat quarter.  It is folded lengthwise.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1019\" alt=\"725pears.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/725pears.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Orange spirals and baby faces-  also folded.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1020\" alt=\"725spiralfaces.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/725spiralfaces.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3.Green and black, Baby faces, folded fabric-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1016\" alt=\"725greenbaby.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/725greenbaby.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. Flower babies printed on light blue-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1015\" alt=\"725flowerbaby2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/725flowerbaby2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. and on off-white with different spacing-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1014\" alt=\"725flowerbaby1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/725flowerbaby1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>6. Red birds, green leaves, light blue background-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1012\" alt=\"725birds.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/725birds.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have the other half of the fat quarter of most of these.  I sent the ones that didn&#8217;t have the mistakes!<\/p>\n<p>Then there are these-<\/p>\n<p>The bugs faded quite a bit when I washed them, so now they are mine.  In general I wasn&#8217;t too happy with the ones I printed on the green Kona cotton.  The colors must not have absorbed well, because all of them were a bit faded after washing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"725greens.jpg\" id=\"image1017\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/725greens.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I liked this one so much that in the end, I decided to keep it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"725hands.jpg\" id=\"image1022\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/725hands.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>even after I&#8217;d printed up more in various color and image combinations!  I am thinking about cutting up some of these for patches or ribbons.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"725mixhands.jpg\" id=\"image1018\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/725mixhands.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>these too- ribbons or strips-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"725faces.jpg\" id=\"image1013\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/725faces.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are odd sized test pieces and use up the ink\/paint pieces.  I won&#8217;t have any problem finding uses for these non-standard shapes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"7253fabrics.jpg\" id=\"image1010\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/7253fabrics.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and lastly, I needed fabric like this for my applique work-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"725bw.jpg\" id=\"image1011\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/725bw.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am so glad I decided to participate in the swap- just the incentive I needed to get me started.  This is a crazy week though.  Isn&#8217;t it always that way when we get back from vacation?  I am having my <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/gathering\/\">workshop<\/a> this coming weekend at my house- that means I have to clean up space to do it in!  I&#8217;ve got lots of things on my mind and lots of things I haven&#8217;t had a chance to blog about yet, so if you are wondering why you haven&#8217;t heard from me, that&#8217;s why.  If I owe you an email, write again.  I might have lost it.  Now, back to cleaning up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found it hard to stop, once I got started. So, I have lots of new fabric to play with (or trade or whatever)! These are the ones I mailed off to Bitter Betty today for the swap- 1. pears &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/i-think-im-hooked\/\">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":[7,8,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}