{"id":899,"date":"2021-11-16T13:52:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T12:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2021-11-16T13:52:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T12:52:04","slug":"uap-masks-on-a-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/16\/uap-masks-on-a-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"UAP: Masks on a Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In quilting and crafting, for many years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesprucecrafts.com\/what-term-ufo-means-to-quilters-2821651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thesprucecrafts.com\/what-term-ufo-means-to-quilters-2821651\">&#8220;<strong>UFO<\/strong>&#8220;<\/a> has meant <a href=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/29\/ufo-update-scrap-hexagon-flower-top\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/29\/ufo-update-scrap-hexagon-flower-top\/\">&#8220;<strong>U<\/strong>n<strong>F<\/strong>inished <strong>O<\/strong>bject<\/a>&#8220;. So I wondered: now that &#8220;<strong>UAP<\/strong>&#8221; (<strong>U<\/strong>nidentified <strong>A<\/strong>erial <strong>P<\/strong>henomenon) has replaced &#8220;UFO&#8221; in the &#8220;strange sightings of stuff in the sky but we&#8217;re all intellectural and science-y, not like you woo-woo freaks&#8221; community, has anyone in the quilting\/crafting communities developed a cute word play?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a full minute and a half of poking around the internets, I decided to invent one myself. <strong>UAP<\/strong>: <strong>U<\/strong>ninteresting <strong>A<\/strong>nnoying <strong>P<\/strong>roject.  Everybody with a creative hobby&#8211;even cooking or baking&#8211;has been forced to spend time and materials on UAPs.  Perfunctory holiday gifts, costumes or accessories for school projects and events, wedding d\u00e9cor and invitations, party favors, y&#8217;all know exactly what I&#8217;m talking about. It&#8217;s necessary, but boring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am attempting to fly to Iowa next week&#8211;until I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/traveladvisories\/ea\/requirements-for-air-travelers-to-the-us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/traveladvisories\/ea\/requirements-for-air-travelers-to-the-us.html\">negative &#8216;rona test<\/a> in my cold mangled hand, it&#8217;s not a sure thing&#8211;and will be required to wear cloth masks on the planes and during my seven-hour (you read that right) layover. The Bavarian government requires specific non-medical paper dust masks, so I never got around to making a <a href=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/14\/festive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/14\/festive\/\">festive mask wardrobe.<\/a> Until now! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"649\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FELVYSGXMAU44tL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FELVYSGXMAU44tL.jpg 604w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FELVYSGXMAU44tL-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><figcaption><em>Uninteresting and Annoying<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I resent the waste of time, but at least now the cat fabric can be seen outside my sewing room. And they&#8217;ll keep my chins warm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you still want to make your own, I used <a href=\"https:\/\/sarahmaker.com\/how-to-sew-a-surgical-face-mask-for-hospitals-free-pattern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/sarahmaker.com\/how-to-sew-a-surgical-face-mask-for-hospitals-free-pattern\/\">this free pattern<\/a> I found online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uninteresting Annoying Project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stitching","tag-stitching"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}