Friday, July 20, 2007

Ripple-effect

all those rippled afghans makes me want to crochet too - but then I saw these beautiful grannie- and hexagon-afghans on flickr, and I like the idea of not having a whole blanket in my lab while crocheting all the time. Also I don´t have to decide on the size from the beginning - or buy more cotton yarn.

afghans

1. Maria Victoria Afghan, 2. 06-2007 - DSC09966 - Détails carrés de nappe !, 3. afghan: ready to join, 4. via: Flickr user: Yvestown, 5. babette bigger, 6. Lotus square, 7. kalafghan 004, 8. kaleidescope63006, 9. kalafghan 003
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.


Moonstitches has a great tutorial on how to connect the hexagons, I am basing my hexagon on her pattern which is from a japanese book, but I am doing them differently (I don´t have the book, so I´m making up my own version)

Here´s my test-hexagon in solid color (I just quickly retouched the second hexagon away since I crocheted it on the wrong way, I need to go to bed earlier!!!):

hexagon

9 comments:

Mette said...

Yes, jeg leder og leder efter en opskrift på de sekskanter. Moonstitches er forryngende, dem har jeg også fulgt længe. Nu er jeg måske lidt nærmere en opskrift! Det må vente til i morgen, for nu er det over midnat! k.h. Mette

Mette said...

Hvis du ikke finder en deler jeg gerne ud af mit forsøg på en sekskant, den er sikkert ikke helt rigtig, men den fungerer ;-)

Mette said...

Ja, det er ikke lykkedes mig endnu, så jeg siger ja tak til at dele. Så deler jeg også gerne, hvis jeg skulle falde over noget interessant!

Felicia said...

They're so pretty :)

Terri Lynn said...

I found you joined my group Itsy Bitsy and had to check out your blog! It is so nice! I bet you would love my other two groups, Granny Squares and Ripples!!!!! I love your blog!!!!

Mette said...

Thank you Terri - see you at Ravelry ;-)

Dorte said...

Det er godt nok nogle flotte eksempler på hæklede tæpper du har fundet frem - meget inspirerende !

kh Dorte

Mette said...

Dorte - jeg er også helt solgt, så brød lige med min uskrevne regel om ikke at vise andres billeder på min blog, de var simpelthen for flotte :-)

Alex said...

I think you got it right!
Have fun with hexagons! I am looking forward to see what you're making.