And then I found this crochet-a-long, 7 different hexagons that could be put together to make a cushion, a shawl or a baby blanket. Well if I make a few more it'll just be a big blanket won't it?
Week 1 pattern is for a target looking hexagon, seems as though I'm off to a flying start...
Although it does seem as though I can't talk to quilters and crochet a hexagon at the same time...
Week 2 was a rather sweet granny stitch ....I rather liked making these....
Week 3 introduced the double triple stitch- which resulted in a rather interesting twisted texture in that leggy middle row...
Week 4 was a one colour spiral effect - I rather liked the way they came together so I made quite a few of them...
Week 5 brought the Popcorn stitch - but no matter what I did I couldn't make the bobble "pop" out so I didn't make many of them...
Week 6 was a rather lovely lacy petal design and being all one colour was super efficient at the use of yarn so I made a few of those ...
And finally week 7 was this cartwheel / spiders web design that I was slightly dreading as it looked really complicated, but it actually turned out to be really quite easy. Might have to make a few more of these again sometime...
Eventually the balls of wool got really quite small, but its amazing how you can squeeze a few more hexagons out, until even I had to admit there wasn't enough yarn for any more...
Finally they were all done...
and after sewing in a few lose ends...
It was time to spend a happy hour crawling around on the carpet working out how they would all go together...
Having pinned them into rows, I decided to try out a new way of hooking them together without creating a big ridge on one side...
I got this technique from here on Attic 24, although the instructions are for squares I thought it would be pretty simple to adapt to hexagons, just joining the outside loops -it all looks quite neat...
and I can join each row to its neighbour as I go along, and the join doesn't show on the "front" unless I stretch the hexagons apart...
But that all depends on which side you consider to be the front...
In no time at all (well a little over a week) it all came together, so which is better - the right side without the ridge...
Or the "wrong" side with the ridge...
The ridge is definitely smaller than the last time, I might be growing fonder of the ridge side...
Either way it will definitely look better with a border, I've got some green wool left - so off I go...
Two stitches and a chain on the outside points and two stitches together on the inside "corners"
Not long till the final "ta-dah" moment came along...
Right side...
and "wrong" side...
Warm and bright!
It took a lot longer than I imagined it would, and I'm a little embarrassed that it wasn't finished in 2015 but it will be on its way to Romania in July so it will be keeping someone warm next winter!
