{"id":454,"date":"2009-10-19T09:05:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T13:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/?p=454"},"modified":"2009-10-19T09:05:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T13:05:35","slug":"knitting-and-crocheting-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Knitting (and crocheting)&#8230;Hats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Boo-at-the-Zoo-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"399\" alt=\"Boo at the Zoo 001\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Boo-at-the-Zoo-001_thumb.jpg\" width=\"301\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is the hat I made while in Chincoteague last week.<\/p>\n<p>I made it for Allyson, because she always is looking for a new hat.<\/p>\n<p>And it is pink and grey- two of her favorite colors.<\/p>\n<p>I made it big and out of wool so it can be felted and shaped.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know to crochet, except for the basic chain stitch.&nbsp; I made up the <\/p>\n<p>flower as I went along.&nbsp; And I did the flower at home because I found out <\/p>\n<p>something about Chincoteague I hadn&#8217;t been aware of before.<\/p>\n<p>No one sells crochet(or knitting or large eyed sewing needles) hooks on the island.&nbsp; NO ONE.&nbsp; We asked at the pharmacy\/drug store- where they sell everything from nose pads for your glasses to scented candles and hair dryers- but no crochet hooks.<\/p>\n<p>We tried the Dollar stores, the grocery store, any number of specialty stores.<\/p>\n<p>We found some acrylic yarn at one shop but NO crochet hooks.<\/p>\n<p>So the hat couldn&#8217;t be f inished until we came home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Boo-at-the-Zoo-0031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"250\" alt=\"Boo at the Zoo 003\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Boo-at-the-Zoo-003_thumb.jpg\" width=\"332\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like the way the rose\/flower turned out even if it isn&#8217;t done right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Boo-at-the-Zoo-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Boo at the Zoo 004\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Boo-at-the-Zoo-004_thumb.jpg\" width=\"239\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing what you can do with a hook and yarn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Boo-at-the-Zoo-0031.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the hat I made while in Chincoteague last week. I made it for Allyson, because she always is looking for a new hat. And it is pink and grey- two of her favorite colors. I made it big &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=454\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-folksy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}