{"id":727,"date":"2007-09-14T18:40:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/the-men-tweaking\/"},"modified":"2007-09-14T18:40:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T23:40:06","slug":"the-men-tweaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/the-men-tweaking\/","title":{"rendered":"the men- tweaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been working on these guys all week. I’ve really enjoyed playing with the hair embroidery.
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4 heads, front and back-<\/p>\n

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I’ve spent a lot of time tweaking. The feet have been an issue. Four dolls, four different feet designs.
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The first guy<\/a>? I took off his feet, restuffed his legs, repositioned the feet and sewed them back on again. Then I embroidered the white of his eyes- what a difference that made- some contrast! I gave him a mustache and embroidered details on his pants. And I decided that the blotches weren’t so bad after all.<\/p>\n

Second guy<\/a>– I thought a lot about the comment Babs left… I agreed with her. I wasn’t satisfied with the lower half of the body. I thought about adding dimension by using a 4 piece pattern for his pants. In the end, I decided that was not the direction to go in. If I did that, I’d really have to change the head too; give him a chin, a round head. There is a balancing act of keeping a simple design and making a believable figure. So, on this guy too, I removed his feet, restuffed the legs- that made a huge difference- repositioned the feet and sewed them back on again. I added embroidered detail onto the front and back of the pants.<\/p>\n

Hopefully I will have them all completely finished and ready for their formal portrait tomorrow. I’ve been doing so much hand stitching that my fingertips hurt!<\/p>\n

I put some of the embroidered<\/a> head<\/a> photos<\/a> on Flickr, if you want to see more detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been working on these guys all week. I’ve really enjoyed playing with the hair embroidery. 4 heads, front and back- I’ve spent a lot of time tweaking. The feet have been an issue. Four dolls, four different feet designs. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727"}],"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=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}