{"id":252,"date":"2011-02-28T23:40:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2011-02-28T23:40:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:40:34","slug":"more_about_those_strips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/more_about_those_strips\/","title":{"rendered":"more about those strips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hiptopiecesquares\/5488071694\/\" title=\"DSC_0652 by Hip To Piece Squares, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4139\/5488071694_9437af8786_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" alt=\"DSC_0652\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>If I thought the few weeks of creative block was bad this past month, I had no idea what was to come.  I was down for the count for a whole week of a stomach virus, complete with an itchy rash that kept me in bed for too, too long.<\/p>\n<p>But finally today I&#8217;m feeling lots better, and I am READY to get back to sewing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a lot on my mind right now&#8230;I need to finish projects for people, craft shows must be applied to in the next several days&#8230;.there&#8217;s loose ends to tie up everywhere.  But after work today, I came home and worked again with those little fabric strips I was telling you about last time.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how it&#8217;s possible, but those strips have pulled me out of my slump and I&#8217;m ready to make so much again.  Tonight, I worked on a few pouches and journal covers and everything came together without stress.  It&#8217;s the kind of feeling where you&#8217;re excited about the project of the moment, but you can&#8217;t help but think about the details of the next three projects as well.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had more photos to show you, but I promise there will be much more in the days to come.  I&#8217;m so ready to get back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I thought the few weeks of creative block was bad this past month, I had no idea what was to come. I was down for the count for a whole week of a stomach virus, complete with an itchy rash that kept me in bed for too, too long. But finally today I&#8217;m feeling <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/more_about_those_strips\/\" 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-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilting","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}