{"product_id":"a-very-plain-hat-knitting-pattern-by-feather-and-fan","title":"A Very Plain Hat","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt took me a long time to come to terms with the fact that my boyfriend Rahul didn’t want a hat with cables and Fair Isle and fanciness. All he wanted, it turns out, was a Very Plain Hat. He’s rejected various hats I’ve made—Koolhaas, Shedir, a black cabled hat with earflaps, a hilarious balaclava-style hat with attached beard and mustache—by admiring them at first, then quietly leaving the house without them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen we took a recent trip to Madison, Wisconsin, in March, and the icy wind was whipping off the lakes, turning his unguarded ears a distressing shade of red, I decided to make him a new hat to keep his head warm, a hat he would actually wear. I stopped in at a local yarn store and bought a skein of Berroco Ultra Alpaca, and less than 24 hours later, Rahul had a Very Plain Hat, his current favorite, the only hat I’ve made him that I’ve seen him wear consistently and ask after when it’s being washed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI kept getting ideas in my head about stripes and knit\/p\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independent Designer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56736410141050,"sku":"UPID12659","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/3219\/4170\/files\/c3fab2708b848d02ef3d9eaa96c50ce0818201db_UPID12659_174231952986335.jpg?v=1775750616","url":"https:\/\/www.lovecrafts.com\/en-us\/products\/a-very-plain-hat-knitting-pattern-by-feather-and-fan","provider":"LoveCrafts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}