Whoa

Have you seen this? And this? Stunning Escher-inspired patchwork blankets, made all the more impressive by the skillful use of textures: ribbing for feathers, seed stitch for scales, bobbles for eyes. I’ve always loved tessellations, and I’m utterly blown away by these knitted ones.

This is precisely the sort of knitted inspiration that I don’t dare show DH. He’d want his own fish/bird/lizard blanket ASAP. And right now I have about as much time for knitting a blanket’s worth of tessellations as I have for knitting an blanket’s worth of hexipuffs.

Speaking of hexipuffs... after finishing my second (and, so far, last) hexipuff, I tossed it over to DH in his easy chair so he could have a closer look. He had fun squishing it absent-mindedly as he sat reading. Two weeks later, that hexipuff is still there, on the arm of his easy chair. He still squishes it absent-mindedly while reading or watching TV, like it was some kind of cat toy for humans. Honestly? To photograph it for y’all, I had to steal it back briefly when he wasn’t looking. I wonder when/if he’ll tire of it and give it back...

Tagged: inspiration.