{"id":9363,"date":"2015-09-26T16:05:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=9363"},"modified":"2015-09-26T16:05:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T20:05:54","slug":"what-ive-been-working-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\/09\/what-ive-been-working-on\/","title":{"rendered":"what I’ve been working on"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been wanting to get back to making some girl dolls<\/a> for quite a while. There always seems to be something else that makes it to the top of the “what’s next” list though. Back last winter, I pulled out various patterns of mine and experimented with making some in cotton. I came up with nothing that satisfied me and everything went into a shopping bag and got stuck in a corner.<\/p>\n

\"9-26-dyes<\/a><\/p>\n

I recently emptied that bag back onto my work table and have gone back to work, this time using wool. Much better!<\/p>\n

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I am working on tweaking my original girl pattern and also making a little girl design. These are the 2 I am currently moving forward on.<\/p>\n

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Next, as I sorted through my fabrics for a variety of skin shades, I found I was low on the peachy colors. I had a range of pinks, but they were too pinky-pink for my taste. So, time for the dye pots.<\/p>\n

I had 4 shades of pink that I was aiming to tone down and\/or get closer to a peach flesh color-<\/p>\n

\"9-26-dyes<\/a><\/p>\n

I pulled out my dyes and picked a variety. I usually use Cushing Dye<\/a> for wool but I also did 2 tests with Rit<\/a>. This was what I got out of a morning’s work-<\/p>\n

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The bottom row, second from the left is the 4 original, un-dyed fabrics. I experimented with- Cushing Apricot, Aqualon Yellow, Tan, Nugget Gold, Maize, Orange (2 times since one was too bright), Lemon, and Rit Tan and Taupe. From my samples, I was able to make some educated guesses about what would work. I was very happy with the results! I put a swatch of the original color with the new, over-dyed color.<\/p>\n

\"9-26-dyes<\/a>The one that says 3 (left most) is the subtlest. I used Rit Taupe and it just toned the color down a bit. #2 was Cushing Aqualon Yellow. #1 and #4 Cushing Maize. I am really pleased with my results! I had an excellent dyeing day; well, except when the towel caught on fire… but yeah, not too much damage ;-)<\/p>\n

Now, time to start cutting out some girls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been wanting to get back to making some girl dolls for quite a while. There always seems to be something else that makes it to the top of the “what’s next” list though. Back last winter, I pulled … 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":[5,17],"tags":[198,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363"}],"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=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9370,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions\/9370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}