{"id":2072,"date":"2018-08-31T22:17:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T02:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2018-08-31T22:17:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T02:17:32","slug":"in-which-my-new-hat-is-almost-patriotic-just-not-sure-for-which-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2072","title":{"rendered":"In which my new hat is almost patriotic (just not sure for which country)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My knitting mojo is back! I guess the job was making me more nuts than I realized. So glad I found a new one!<\/p>\n<p>I cast on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/scopes\">Scopes<\/a> again. I love the pattern, it is super easy, and it looks amazing. I wanted to use up stash yarn (I&#8217;m not quite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/211946-sable--a-common-knitting-acronym-that-stands-for-stash-acquisition\">SABLE<\/a>, but it&#8217;s getting close). Found yarn that refused to be a Christmas stocking, and cast on.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at my color choices later, with the big, bold stripes, I realized something.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I&#8217;m making a flag hat by accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Quinn, who is sitting next to me surfing Reddit, looks at the hat, and starts googling for flags with white, red and green.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on where you are in the pattern, a case can be made for the flag of either <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flag_of_Hungary\">Hungary<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flag_of_Bulgaria\">Bulgaria<\/a>. I still love it. I&#8217;m just going to call it the Hungary Bulgarian hat on the project page. ?<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/psx_20180831_2157343881421385470140987.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2071\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2475\" title=\"The soon-to-be Hungary Bulgarian hat.\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The soon-to-be Hungary Bulgarian hat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My knitting mojo is back! I guess the job was making me more nuts than I realized. So glad I found a new one! I cast on Scopes again. I love the pattern, it is super easy, and it looks amazing. I wanted to use up stash yarn (I&#8217;m not quite SABLE, but it&#8217;s getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2072\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In which my new hat is almost patriotic (just not sure for which country)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-xq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}