{"id":1845,"date":"2014-02-04T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T08:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2014-02-04T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T08:44:54","slug":"the-vulnerability-blanket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/2014\/02\/the-vulnerability-blanket\/","title":{"rendered":"The vulnerability blanket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chocolatemintsinajar\/12301722533\/player\/4cd699546f\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/2012\/08\/stashbusting\/\" target=\"_blank\">started<\/a> all the way back in August of 2012 and I used to call it the uncoordinated blanket because there was no color coordination whatsoever. I started out using leftover fingering weight yarn and just kept on going. \u00a0It was never meant to look perfect like some of the gorgeous blankets I have seen out there. \u00a0It was never even meant to look coordinated. \u00a0It was meant to use up the leftover yarns and to turn something that had no use into something useful and usable. \u00a0It was meant to be my downtime project, unexciting yet reliable. \u00a0It was never meant to be intricate, it is just a never ending granny square.<\/p>\n<p>But the best thing about it, is that it is very honest. \u00a0What you see is what you get. \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t promise anything, it just is. It has been with me in happy times, not so happy times and that one time when I got really sick and almost died. \u00a0After that, I started changing the way I look at life and the way I live. \u00a0It has taken a long time but I think I am definitely at a much better place than where I started.<\/p>\n<p>Long projects like this one are a reminder that we are never really an FO, we will always be WIPs. No matter how put together you think you are, there is always room for improvement and growth. \u00a0I am not perfect, I am clumsy and uncoordinated. \u00a0I am imperfect yet I am beautiful, useful, practical, quirky and funny. And so are you. \u00a0I do not aim for perfection anymore. \u00a0Just for trying really hard and growing. \u00a0I want to be more. But I do not want to be everything.<\/p>\n<p>The change in name was inspired by Brene Brown&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/159285849X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=159285849X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=chomininaj0ae-20\">The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You&#8217;re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=chomininaj0ae-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=159285849X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0. My sister gifted me the book and it has changed the way I think about a lot of things.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch her TED talk, it sort of captures the essence of the book.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/brene_brown_on_vulnerability\" sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-same-origin\" width=\"839\" height=\"472\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This started all the way back in August of 2012 and I used to call it the uncoordinated blanket because there was no color coordination whatsoever. I started out using leftover fingering weight yarn and just kept on going. \u00a0It was never meant to look perfect&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1847,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[129],"tags":[146,263,264],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crochet-yarning","tag-blanket","tag-granny-square","tag-vulnerabilty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_3285.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p10SDt-tL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","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=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1848,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/1848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}