{"id":977,"date":"2019-12-14T10:43:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T16:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/?p=977"},"modified":"2019-12-14T10:43:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T16:43:48","slug":"enjoying-the-holidays-one-stitch-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/14\/enjoying-the-holidays-one-stitch-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying the holidays &#8211; one stitch at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-980\" src=\"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/brightvioletscarf-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>My 2019 crochet goals have changed a few times.<\/strong> I met the baby hat goal, original scarf goal, then added a hat and scarf set goal, then met and exceeded that goal. Now everything that I\u2019ve made has been donated. This leaves only 8 scarves to finish for the modified scarf goal. Four are in progress and no holiday gifts are on the horizon, so I\u2019m ready to keep plugging away!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-978 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Multi3yarn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The holiday season between Thanksgiving and New Year\u2019s Day can be stressful. Since my counting of completed projects is inaccurate until I\u2019m ready to send them, I chose to make more hat and scarf sets to donate. Ambitiously, I was going to make a nice round number of five, but decided to not impose added stress on myself and donate the four completed ones.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-979 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Purpleripple-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Pressure to create is real for many people especially those making Christmas gifts. I\u2019m not making anything for anyone &#8211; yet. But, I\u2019ve been in that position before, so I chose not to put any additional pressure on myself and concentrate on meeting my revised goals. The four scarves in progress means that I and a few stitches closer to the goal of 75 scarves. How do you meet your crafting goals &#8211; one stitch at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Crocheting or any crafting should be fun. The holiday gift making pressure can take the joy out of the season. Don\u2019t let self-imposed goals steal your joy this season (or any other time). If you can\u2019t make everything you would like before Christmas, so be it. If it happens, it happens.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Happy crocheting!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 2019 crochet goals have changed a few times. I met the baby hat goal, original scarf goal, then added a hat and scarf set goal, then met and exceeded that goal. Now everything that I\u2019ve made has been donated. This leaves only 8 scarves to finish for the modified scarf goal. Four are in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}