Wednesday's Work - Hooked on Hexagons

I was reading Fibra Artysta's blog one day and she posted a picture of a hexagon that she had crocheted. Lynn gave a link to where she'd found directions for crocheting an afghan of hexagons with an ingenious technique of crocheting the hexagons right into the afghan, rather than having to sew them all together at the end. The link was to the blog, Attic 24. Lucy, at Attic 24, does some incredible crocheting, and includes directions to much of her work, including this hexagon how-to tutorial.

I was totally smitten, and within an hour had headed off to Michael's to buy yarn. I decided on Lion Brand Yarn. This picture shows the Prairie color. Many of the skeins are variegated, and I bought most of what caught my eye! I had decided that there wasn't any real reason to plan the afghan ahead of time and calculate the amount of yarn needed. More fun to just shop....

I started working on it and got as far as what's shown in the first picture. At that point I was getting tired of starting and stopping four colors in each hexagon. I decided to drop down to two colors, one that would make the inner circle, and another that would convert the circle into the hexagon.

Here are some of the circles I crocheted. I decided I would limit the outer color of the hexagons to a single color to give the afghan more cohesion, and I picked the Prairie color for doing this.

Here's how it looked, as I started to add the different hexagons. The four-color hexagons will form a "medallion" in the middle of the afghan.

Maybe you noticed my title of "Wednesday's Work." I'm trying to motivate myself to blog on a more-regular basis. I saw a friend, Robin, a couple nights ago, and we were talking about this. She had decided to name her blog posts with the days of the week, like Monday Marvel and Tuesday Texture. I liked this idea and am blatantly plagarizing. I've chosed "Monday's Memory," "Wednesday's Work," and "Friday's Fotos." (You can check out Robin's beautiful fiber art at Nestlings by Robin.) Wednesdays will be for showing my current works-in-progress.

Have a great Wednesday!

Jean