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there is a giant conference room, full of tables, in my office.

push two together and you have the perfect place to layout a bunch of hexagon flowers. bad news: i need to knit 2 more hexes, else there will be two partial flowers of the same color next to each other. obviously, i miscalculated somewhere. but, it is an easy enough fix and easier than unstitching and restitching other pieces.

i think in the final version i might move some of the flowers for a better balance. also? might end up wanting to put a golden border on it, after the fact. it could stand to be a little bigger.

but that remains to be seen -- right now i need to find all the extra minutes in the day to get this thing sewn together. it'll be a challenge as work is pretty demanding at the end of the year, but i have faith. and resolve. and dvr'ed christmas movies to get me through it; i am a big fan of keeping the whole christmas thing going through all 12 days.

26 december 2012 the bits and pieces

there are sixteen partial flowers in the blanket.

and they are all now sewn together and ready for the assembly. it is amazing what a day off with few obligations can do!

now i just need to find a place to lay it all out to make sure no two flowers of the same color end up next to each other. right now, there is no place in the house except the bed and i can't seem to get to it when the bed is not otherwise occupied.

24 december 2012 no cigar

so close, so close and yet so far.

all the flowers are stitched together, including the missing flower which was finally located between the end of the couch and the rattan chest. i blame the cat, because it seems like something she would do, and she can be a rotten little beast. or it might have just slipped into the abyss.

i am putting all the flowers into a box and will then give my parents the option of seeing the bits and pieces, or waiting until the 12th day of christmas to see the finished product. i'm giving them a coupon to get australian meat pies in the mean time, so they have a snack while waiting. maybe they'll pick up a lamington as well. sometimes i really miss the foods of australia - too few available up here.

11 december 2012 behind the curve

i have lost an entire flower.

i have been stitching together the full fowers -- all 23 of them -- by first attaching the petals to the center, using the extra long tail i left on each, and then using the tails left on the petals to stitch them to each other. so far all the tails have been just long enough and it's been a very efficient use of yarn.

in the process of this, a flower has disappeared. i've looked everywhere except the place it is. and for no good reason, it has slowed my progress rather drastically. i need to get over it and just move ahead; worst comes to worst, i have enough yarn to make another flower.

i'm saving all the little tails of yarn that are left over and will give them to my mother so she can set them out for her beloved nest-building robins this spring. it will be fun to see the bright bits woven amongst the browns and grays usually seen in the nests.

01 december 2012 assembly required

all of the coloured hexes are done!

i've started on the golden middles, but haven't really felt the urge to plow through them, which is a little troubling considering it is now december. time, it keeps on ticking into the future. so, in an attempt to motivate myself, i put all the pieces on a long needle so i could see if it looked colorful good, or colourful bad.

and as i voted colourful good, i then sewed the first crocheted middle onto six petals, to see if the flower concept was gong to work.

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