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My first attempt at a flagstone! Came out alright. Made out of sugar paper with baby oil on to make it more translucent.
A swift color change happened in this one...
Berrocco pattern
Yarn: Jojoland Rhythm in M01 (borders) and M20 (middle)
The classical layout to cut a hexagon from a rectangle is shown in part B, left part. It works, but i was never able to obtain a "perfect" hexagon. It may only be obtainable with a stencil (advantage: completely free of creases, disadvantage: fixed stencil size). I have come up with an improved folding method (B right part, C) which gave me better results than the classical method. It shifts the hexagon away from the edge of the paper (the creases here tend to be inaccurate due to bending) and it uses more reference points/lines. The extra creases will get folded anyway in a standard edge aligned grid. A drawback is that the residual paper is obtained in 2 smaller parts compared to the classical method, a pity if expensive paper is used.
It is useful to understand how the required angle of 60° (yellow) is obtained (shown in part A). The bottom raw edge must be folded upwards so that the bottom right corner touches the vertical which divides the bottom edge in half. Because the now void space and the folded flap are equal, the angle in the red triangle is bisected. Substracting this value from 90° gives 60°, which we are after. Here it is just a coincidence that the red and yellow angles are equal, in other examples (the vertical can be shifted to obtain other angles) this is not the case.
This method can also be used for other grid divisions, as shown by Robin Scholz (Link 1, 2). The short edge of the rectangle is first divided into the required parts. I like to use the equidistant line method (3), because it is accurate and does not introduce extra creases. Then, using the 60°-method, the hexagon is created.
There is another universal way to divide paper into nths, based on folding only (4, 5), but it requires extra creases. They can be reduced to pinch marks, but at the risk of greater inaccuracy.
Hexagon Pattern by attic24.typepad.com/weblog/hexagon-howto.html
153 Hexagons
100% cotton yarn-Sugar & Cream and Peaches & Cream
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Badwater Pool, the lowest point in the basin. / Sós vizes medencék egy forrás körül a Badwater medence legmélyebb pontján. Észak-Amerika legmélyebben fekvő területe 86 méterrel a tengerszint alatt, egyben a legforróbb is (ottlétünkkor is 43 fok felett volt, de a csúcs 56,7 fok volt, ami egyben világcsúcs is). Az éves párolgás egy 3,7 méter mély tavat is eltüntetne egyetlen év alatt...
Visiting the Badwater pools in the Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, California, United States. We visited the place in June 2008, during our big Southwestern roadtrip.
Képek a Death Valley Nemzeti Parkban, Kaliforniában. A parkba nyugatról hajtottunk be, az ottani érdekességek után keletre és délre haladtunk a látnivalókon sorban, és délkeleten hagytuk el a parkot. Nagy délnyugati kirándulásunk alkalmával jártunk itt, 2008. júniusában.
Badwater Pool itself consists of a small spring-fed pool of 'bad water' next to the road in a sink; the accumulated salts of the surrounding basin make it undrinkable, thus giving it the name. The pool does have animal and plant life, including pickleweed, aquatic insects, and the Badwater snail. Adjacent to the pool, where water is not always present at the surface, repeated freeze–thaw and evaporation cycles gradually push the thin salt crust into hexagonal honeycomb shapes. The pool is not the lowest point of the basin: the lowest point (which is only slightly lower) is several miles to the west and varies in position, depending on rainfall and evaporation patterns. The salt flats are hazardous to traverse (in many cases being only a thin white crust over mud), and so the sign marking the low point is at the pool instead. The basin is the lowest elevation in North America. At Badwater Basin, significant rainstorms flood the valley bottom periodically, covering the salt pan with a thin sheet of standing water. Newly formed lakes do not last long though, because the 1.9 in (48 mm) of average rainfall is overwhelmed by a 150 in (3,800 mm) annual evaporation rate. This is the greatest evaporation potential in the United States, meaning that a 12 ft (3.7 m) lake could dry up in a single year. When the basin is flooded, some of the salt is dissolved; it is redeposited as clean crystals when the water evaporates. A popular site for tourists is the sign marking 'sea level' on the cliff above the Badwater Basin.
I've joined the "Piece and Love Hexathon" group (also on Flickr) to try my hand at English Paper Piecing. I also wanted a hand piecing project for the summer when it's too hot for knitting woolie stuff. Details about this project are on my blog: stitchcat studio : stitchcatstudio.blogspot.ca/2012/05/basting-is-done.html
Video: youtu.be/JTp-Pc3hgu4
Based on a design by Dandrelin: www.flickr.com/photos/99711486@N03/10860103416/in/photost...
In Noro Kureyon. Pattern available here: itsastitchup.co.uk/knitting-patterns/cerys-hexagon-blanket/
From a hexagon of purple glassine, grid 1/64.
Based on an old design of mine
Instructions in Eric's famous book
I've been preparing it for the machine quilter to do her magic. Lots of trimming, staystitching, removal of papers. And finally - assembling the backing from four different pieces of fabric.
The quilt measures 235 cm across, and 240 cm from top to bottom. It's a monster!
This is probably how they will eventually be joined...after I make a whole bunch more.
My blog: sewandsox.blogspot.com
Pattern can be found here. Whipstitched together. Border is #16 from the book “Around the Corner Crochet Borders” with an extra round before the final edge.
A heating grid in St Matthews Church in Chapel Allerton, Leeds
Tessellation on Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation
How to create a tessellation
www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/tessellate/?versi....