{"id":236,"date":"2011-01-08T17:17:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T17:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2011-01-08T17:17:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T17:17:58","slug":"reworking_the_mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/reworking_the_mess\/","title":{"rendered":"reworking the mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to take a sewing break for the weekend so that I can get a few things accomplished in my sewing room.  For the past few months I&#8217;ve been so busy working to get things ready for shows and Christmas that I&#8217;ve neglected keeping up my sewing room.  It&#8217;s time now to get things back in order.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hiptopiecesquares\/5337278690\/\" title=\"1.8.11 by Hip To Piece Squares, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5288\/5337278690_a16d564e22.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"1.8.11\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Oh my.  I&#8217;m so frustrated with the set up in here right now.  I moved my cutting table to where is presently is this fall so that I could open it up the full length, but I&#8217;ve never been happy with where I have it.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hiptopiecesquares\/5336661945\/\" title=\"the east facing wall by Hip To Piece Squares, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5207\/5336661945_b82b1b4c46.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" alt=\"the east facing wall\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last year I inherited the small table in the bottom left of the above picture from my Nana.  It&#8217;s made from a collection of pretty rocks and was made by another member of my dad&#8217;s family.  It&#8217;s one of those things that I admired in my Nana&#8217;s house as a child, and was promised that I could have later on in life.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I love having it, there&#8217;s just no place for it in my house.  I felt I <em>needed<\/em> to put it out somewhere, but other than my sewing room, it just doesn&#8217;t fit.  When I put it here in the room, I had to reorganize the way I had things set up, and I just haven&#8217;t been happy with it ever since.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hiptopiecesquares\/5336663937\/\" title=\"the north facing wall by Hip To Piece Squares, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5086\/5336663937_8236eb356d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"the north facing wall\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>My goal for the rest of the weekend (and before I start on anything else, including binding the machine quilted quilt) is to finish and fix this mess of a problem.  I love having a sewing room, but this isn&#8217;t helping me be creative at all.  It&#8217;s just a headache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to take a sewing break for the weekend so that I can get a few things accomplished in my sewing room. For the past few months I&#8217;ve been so busy working to get things ready for shows and Christmas that I&#8217;ve neglected keeping up my sewing room. It&#8217;s time now to get things <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/reworking_the_mess\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/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":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","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=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}