{"id":2750,"date":"2013-10-11T22:44:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T11:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2015-08-12T18:12:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T07:12:52","slug":"2750","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2013\/10\/11\/2750\/","title":{"rendered":"Grey felt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131011-223051.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20131011-223051.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131011-223051.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find any fur fabric that was right, so opted for felt for covering the kangaroo mask. I was actually happy about that, (although it still leaves the question of what fabric to use for a tail), because I loved the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritsdancing.com\/puppets\/pictures\/picskingjack.html\">masks using this technique<\/a> that I made some years ago. I built a section into the inside of the mask that will fit the wearer&#8217;s face comfortably and firmly. There&#8217;s still quite a bit of detailing to be done on the ears, eyes and mouth.<\/p>\n<p>While the mask was drying I went back to \u00a0making an emu egg for the same show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canberra100.com.au\/news-and-media\/image-galleries\/?albumID=75\"><em>Biami<\/em><\/a>. I&#8217;d already made a polystyrene form for it, but had set it aside while I considered how to make it light up inside. Today I finally covered the egg in Plastimake. I&#8217;ll have some photos of the egg later as it progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t find any fur fabric that was right, so opted for felt for covering the kangaroo mask. I was actually happy about that, (although it still leaves the question of what fabric to use for a tail), because I loved the masks using this technique that I made some years ago. I built a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,21,191],"tags":[1330,1331,1398,1332,1371,1372,1389,1329],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-make","category-mask","category-props","tag-biami","tag-centenary-of-canberra","tag-egg","tag-kangaroo","tag-make","tag-mask","tag-props","tag-wiradjuri-echoes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saZhI-2750","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}