All last night I kept dreaming* of “hexipuffs,” the little hexagon shaped units of the beekeeper’s quilt. How I’d knit them. How I’d stuff them. How I’d arrange the colors. How I’d connect them together. Apparently, my subconscious really, really wants to knit some hexipuffs.
My conscious, however, really, really rejects the idea of knitting a gazillion little units, stuffing them individually, and sewing them into a quilt. Nuh-uh. Not gonna happen.
But what about a trivet, or a hot pad? Could be fun. Small enough to be sane, big enough to get the hexipuff craze out of my head... hopefully.
Apparently I’m not alone in my aversion to hundreds of hexipuffs. Ravelers have found lots of uses for small numbers of hexipuffs: seat cushions, key fobs, Christmas ornaments, pillow covers, and more. Me, I think I’ll stick with the hot pad.
*I’m not the only person that dreams of knitting, am I?
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I came across someone who's hexi-puffing but doing a row of hexipuffs -- sort of like quilting with strips of fabric. (Sorry, I forget who & where I came across them.) You still need to attach each row to the next, but it does handle all the connections in the other direction. 'Course, you don't get to re-arrange the colors once they're in the strip ...
» Sarah JS
QueerJoe had some stuff about joining as you go. First here (the last couple paragraphs) and a video here (which I haven't watched; seemed clear enough to me from the previous text).
» Karen Frisa
Thanks for the tips, but the join-as-you-go option doesn’t make a gazillion little hexipuffs any more appealing for me. There’s something about the (imagined) fussiness of creating the hexipuffs themselves that puts me off, not the seaming. Go figure.
» JC
But they're so cute! mine may take 5 years to make, but I'm still going to do it. Actually I haven't made any yet (xmas knitting is taking precedence) but I'm having a great time assembling all my leftover bits of sock yarn. And yes, I dream of knitting, but it usually has a somewhat panicked undertone LOL.
» JudyG