{"id":1042,"date":"2011-12-27T21:17:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T18:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2011-12-27T21:17:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T18:17:41","slug":"2011-review-2012-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/2011\/12\/2011-review-2012-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 in review and 2012 on the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2011 started on a bad foot. I was in Egypt and woke up to the news of the church bombing. A revolution and lots of turmoil in January and a lot of stress and worrying. My crafting has suffered at times because of all the stress, and at others it was my only stress buster. I have made friends with my needles and sewing machine (which is currently suffering from neglect). I released my first knitting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/pattern-available-for-sale\/\">pattern<\/a> and a few sewing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/category\/tutorial-2\/\">tutorials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1043\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-27-at-8.37.17-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1043\" title=\"2011 Projects\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-27-at-8.37.17-PM-300x158.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-27-at-8.37.17-PM-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-27-at-8.37.17-PM-1024x541.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-27-at-8.37.17-PM.png 1287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yarny Projects in 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1044\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-27-at-8.39.37-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1044\" title=\"Patterns Released in 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-27-at-8.39.37-PM-300x262.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-27-at-8.39.37-PM-300x262.png 300w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-27-at-8.39.37-PM.png 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patterns Released in 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1045\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SewingRoundUp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1045\" title=\"SewingRoundUp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SewingRoundUp-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SewingRoundUp-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SewingRoundUp-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2011 Sewing Roundup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nI have learned a very important lesson in 2011, if you hate it while you are making it, stop because it won&#8217;t grow on you later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 started on a bad foot. I was in Egypt and woke up to the news of the church bombing. A revolution and lots of turmoil in January and a lot of stress and worrying. My crafting has suffered at times because of all the stress,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p10SDt-gO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}