{"id":250,"date":"2011-02-13T21:12:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T21:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2011-02-13T21:12:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T21:12:57","slug":"blocked_blocked_and_still_bloc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/blocked_blocked_and_still_bloc\/","title":{"rendered":"blocked, blocked, and still blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am insanely fed up with being at a creative block.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hiptopiecesquares\/5443948320\/\" title=\"2.13.11 rectangles by Hip To Piece Squares, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5138\/5443948320_75d7a3f352_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" alt=\"2.13.11 rectangles\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today, out of sheer frustration for not making progress on anything, I forced myself to start cutting pieces for&#8230;.something.  I don&#8217;t even know what I&#8217;m making.  I just felt that if I didn&#8217;t do anything, that I&#8217;d feel even more behind and blocked.  I&#8217;m not sure it really helped.  I&#8217;m doubting choices in colors and sizes and I don&#8217;t even know what I&#8217;d like for it to become.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hiptopiecesquares\/5443338555\/\" title=\"green, brown and white by Hip To Piece Squares, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4080\/5443338555_c6fc9b90b2_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" alt=\"green, brown and white\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I spent the majority of my time in the sewing room looking at what I have, and not being able to make any decisions.  Finally, I cut up some green, brown and white 3 inch, half square triangles and sewed them together to work on a bag idea I had some time ago.  I wasn&#8217;t happy with the colors together, and so now they&#8217;re just sitting and waiting for me to decide what I should do with them.  I don&#8217;t know though.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hiptopiecesquares\/5443341199\/\" title=\"lunch sacks by Hip To Piece Squares, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4143\/5443341199_e74936b308_z.jpg\" width=\"429\" height=\"640\" alt=\"lunch sacks\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I should be spending my time working on my half-finished lunch sacks, but after a series of pretty major mistakes in the process of making them, I&#8217;m frustrated with them.  I&#8217;d like to finish them and get them off to their respective new homes, but I&#8217;m overwhelmed with finishing them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m genuinely frustrated with my mindset these days.  I <em>want<\/em> to work on projects and make strides in finishing things, but I&#8217;m having a lot of issues with self-doubt and second guessing.  I&#8217;m having a lot of trouble shaking that feeling and just getting on with the making process.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Finally, to wrap up my last post about my oops fabric&#8211;it has gone to a good home.  A friend mentioned to me very quickly after the post went up that she&#8217;d have a perfect use for it, so I told her it was hers!  A loving home was indeed found!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am insanely fed up with being at a creative block. Today, out of sheer frustration for not making progress on anything, I forced myself to start cutting pieces for&#8230;.something. I don&#8217;t even know what I&#8217;m making. I just felt that if I didn&#8217;t do anything, that I&#8217;d feel even more behind and blocked. I&#8217;m <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/blocked_blocked_and_still_bloc\/\" 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":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilting","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}