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it is amazing, the number of these little hexes i have built up.

a doctor's appointment here, a softball game there, a two hour meeting everywhere, and suddenly there are over 90 of them done. and i have yet to grow bored with the process, nor irritated at the repetitiveness, nor irked at the all consumingness of them.

after consulting with the small child, i think we are going with the flower layout, so i went looking for an appropriately colored middle. i checked out koigu first but didn't see quite what i was looking for so instead decided to chance that kangaroo dyer's yarn was a close enough gauge match that it will work. because the color is just what i had envisioned; hopefully that will hold true in person since i've only seen it on the computer screen at this point...

14 october 2012 all crochet, all the time

i have a knitting project all queued up, but i am pretty stuck on crocheting all these hexagons.

five skeins down, which makes 60 hexagons, which makes me about 1/3 of the way through the minimum i will need. i do like that it is modular -- i can feel as though i have accomplished something, even if it is just one hex; somehow that seems more impressive than knitting five rows.

i still haven't decided how to put them all together. i'll probably knit them all then decide. which means if i do decide on flowers, i'll then have to crochet all the middles. 30 middles, or more...

the nice thing about a conference is the additional time for handwork.

each hexagon takes about 30 minutes, if i don't give it my full attention, and somewhat less if i do. i brought six skeins of koigu, but expect i will only make it through two at this rate. i can get 12 hexagons from each skein, which makes for an interesting question: should i sew them into a series of flowers? or should i sew them together randomly? and if the former, should all the centers be a single color? a solid?

plenty of time to mull it over between now and number 180.

02 october 2012 squared

it's a mobius, squared.

i didn't realize until i was well into the cowl that i had twisted it not once, but twice somehow. which still makes a mobius, amazingly enough. i think i probably didn't notice because i just kept working and working, without ever hitting an end, and it wasn't until i was almost through that it became a little awkward, and i realized it was extra twisty.

but it still works quite well, so, whatever!

this is the outcome of several hours waiting in an airport, flying in an airplane, and hanging in a hotel room today.

i think i am going to need somewhere between 180 and 200 hexagons before i have enough for the project i am envisioning...

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