Knitting the Progress Flag (and how to do it yourself)
One item I wished to introduce to my store this year was dice bags. I made a really nice and neat dice bag with the nonbinary flag that, as of writing this, I still need to take pictures of, but I wanted to offer as many flags as possible on them. So, for my first of the extra large dice bags, I went with a different flag: the progress flag. There have been several iterations of rainbow pride flags with extra stripes designed to make them more inclusive of minorities within the queer community that have been ignored or shunned by the bigger groups of cis white gays. There's the Philly flag, which I will be offering in my store, that has a black and brown stripe on top as a nod to queer BIPOC. That one's pretty simple to knit, just like every other horizontal striped flag. Then there are the progress flags, with plain ROYGBV horizontal stripes and triangles on the side with extra stripes/flags. One version has the black and brown stripes and then blue, pink, and white "stri...