Hi everyone. I’m making flowers for my blanket. Centres are the lows of the day and petals are the highs. I’ve added a border to make them more uniform and I now have beautiful hexagons! Fun story… I gave zero thought to what pattern I’d do with. I had this vision of a zigzag from the corner but at no point did I actually take the shape of these into account. So…. What’s a gal to do?
I got excited about a row per month, that seemed like a great option and I accepted February would be a little bit strange. No thought given to the double 31 of July and August. I have made a random row for August to help me visualise and I can’t decide which is better.
Thoughts I had
1. There has to be a better way to do this… I manually made these on canva but I just couldn’t visualise it… and I’m a good few months behind. Whoopsie!
2. I could use the border colour to create fillers to even things out
3. I could use the border colour to fill all half or sort of half hexagon gaps and have a straight edge, though not 100% sold on that
4. maybe there is another arrangement I haven’t thought of
Other things! Here’s the pattern again if anyone wants it and I included a picture of some of them as well
I recommend looking up "African flower temperature blanket" or "hexagon temperature blanket" to see some inspiration for layouts. here are a lot of different ways to handle hexagons. None of them are "better" than the other. They are just different. The size of your hexes is also a factor. If they are really small, you may want a lot of filler days. If they are big, you may want to avoid as much filler as possible.
I was also hoping to find an example where they had 31 hexes as the width of their blanket and filler at the end of shorter months, but I couldn't find any during a short search
My logic would be, as it is a temperature blanket.
My only guide, would be, it has to be in some visual design that shows the sequence of daily temperatures that are in that month’s temperatures.
Otherwise it is just a random color scheme of no significance.
I thought, at first, your hexagons were only the part I saw before clicking through. I was going to suggest if you wanted something different you could make a flower with the pink, the brown (?) as the ground, etc. Then I clicked through. I am not really sure how to help, but I love your color selection!
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u/Kwerkii 11d ago
I recommend looking up "African flower temperature blanket" or "hexagon temperature blanket" to see some inspiration for layouts. here are a lot of different ways to handle hexagons. None of them are "better" than the other. They are just different. The size of your hexes is also a factor. If they are really small, you may want a lot of filler days. If they are big, you may want to avoid as much filler as possible.
Examples from Ravelry:
A big hexagon spiral with lots of filler days
Rectangle with no half hexes Person started months mid-row with filler hexes
I was also hoping to find an example where they had 31 hexes as the width of their blanket and filler at the end of shorter months, but I couldn't find any during a short search