{"id":7539,"date":"2012-06-27T03:57:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T07:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=7539"},"modified":"2012-06-28T13:43:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T17:43:14","slug":"under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/under-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"under pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for me to take a step back for a while. I&#8217;ve been suffering recently with killer tension headaches and I need to take better care of myself. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you into a secret: my patterns and tutorials are only any good as a result of endless hours of research, planning, and refinement, but my finished products look so simple and effortless that, looking back, I never really remember how long it took me to make them (especially as I&#8217;m always working on several things at once, so it&#8217;s hard to log the time spent on each one).<\/p>\n<p>I have so many ideas: there are masses of designs I want to make, and all kinds of tutorials and crochet experiments I want to work on. Realistically, I probably have enough design and tutorial ideas on my to-do list to keep me working full-time for the next 2-3 years &#8211; and that doesn&#8217;t include the new ideas and suggestions that I add every week or so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t keep up with myself &#8211; I&#8217;m so excited about what I&#8217;m creating that I want to do everything!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, that&#8217;s not practical&#8230; Not unless I pace myself. So, here&#8217;s the slow-down plan: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assigning a timeframe to my creative work puts needless pressure on me. I&#8217;ve hinted at a series of cat designs I&#8217;m working on, but something still isn&#8217;t quite <em>right<\/em> with them. Sometimes the only solution is to set it aside for a while, so I&#8217;m shelving the cats until new inspiration hits. Apart from commissions, my designs should take however long they need to be the best I can make them.<\/li>\n<li>Another arbitrary deadline (monthly video tutorials) needs some wiggle room, so my next video tutorial will be a little later than planned. I&#8217;ve developed brand new techniques to demo in my Perfect Stripes for Amigurumi tutorial, so it&#8217;ll be worth the wait.<\/li>\n<li>As of right now, I&#8217;m on a 3-day rejuvenating work-free weekend &#8211; I&#8217;ll be doing some knitting (2nd project ever!) and maybe designing a new cross stitch pattern as a stress-relieving craft for the coming months.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll keep trying to figure out a balance. You may not see me online as much as usual throughout July &#8211; I&#8217;ll be visiting my parents for a while, and just trying to do <strong>less<\/strong> of everything.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes. Reading back over this list, it sounds good &#8211; I feel like my pressure release valve has just been activated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for me to take a step back for a while. I&#8217;ve been suffering recently with killer tension headaches and I need to take better care of myself. I&#8217;ll let you into a secret: my patterns and tutorials are only any good as a result of endless hours of research, planning, and refinement, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}