{"id":199,"date":"2010-02-09T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2010-02-09T17:00:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:00:36","slug":"picking_back_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/picking_back_up\/","title":{"rendered":"picking back up"},"content":{"rendered":"

This little blog is a funny thing for me.<\/p>\n

I love keeping it. I hate feeling like I have nothing to say. And I would be crushed to end it.<\/p>\n

But I worry about what I should say. Does anyone really care about what I make? Should I write only about quilting or knitting or both? What if my pictures are lousy? Will anyone leave comments anymore?<\/p>\n

Ultimately, I’ve decided that I cannot worry about those things. I cannot worry about whether or not people like what I make, like what I write about, or like the pictures I take. If I want Hip To Piece Squares to live, then I need to keep this blog for me<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nSo this is where I’m beginning at again. I’m working to encourage myself to finish projects that I’ve started ages ago…not because I NEED to finish them, but because I still love them. They need my attention, and not my anxiety of worrying that they won’t be perfect. That’s the way that I need to think about this space. I don’t need to keep writing because it’s something that I need to do, but because it’s something that I love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This little blog is a funny thing for me. I love keeping it. I hate feeling like I have nothing to say. And I would be crushed to end it. But I worry about what I should say. Does anyone really care about what I make? Should I write only about quilting or knitting or …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-quilting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}