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Today I’m thinking about Christmas. I can’t help it; it’s one of my favourite holidays! Last year I tried to make at least one thing for each person on my list, and I succeeded! This year I’m hoping to out-do myself.

Last year I made this Snowflake blanket for Charles‘ Mom:

Here’s what one of the hexes looks like:

I’m thinking of making this same blanket, in the same colour, for my Mom. Her favourite colour is yellow, but I don’t think that would work for this particular pattern…

I’m debating making this for two other women on my list as well, but in different colours. We’ll see. (I’ll try to post something interesting along side the hundreds of snowflakes this means I’ll have to make!)

For the last few years I’ve made my nieces and nephews hat and scarf sets, and I’m thinking that this year I want to branch out a bit. I’m thinking blankets! (For those keeping track, so far we’re at 1 each for Dad, Mom, two women, and four kids. That’s only 8! Totally do-able.)

I came across this pattern for a swirly dishcloth, and immediately loved it. As I gazed at the picture of it I noticed that while it’s quite rounded, it’s still a hexagon. I wondered if it would make a good blanket motif.

Naturally I tried it out:

The pattern is pretty easy if you know how to do Tunisian crochet.

It’s hard to get a real feel for how the blanket would look with just one hex, so I brought some yarn to work with me today (oddly enough) and made two more. I joined them when I got home:

I really like how the two-coloured hex came out, and if I do this, I think I’ll do it that way (even if it did mean 12 ends to weave in!), two shades of yellow for Katie, pinks or purples for Madeline, blues for Ethan, and greens for Asher.

The question is, do you think the individual hexes need a border before being joined? Especially since they’ll all be two-colour hexes? Do you think an entire blanket of two-colour hexes will be too busy-looking or dizzying? Perhaps I should do a mix of two-colour hexes and single coloured hexes in each of the two colours?

I might need to draw this out to decide for sure. I just doodled this up in Paint:

Thoughts?

I’m also going to make at least one more two-coloured hex and join it to these three and see what it looks like.

I have excellent ideas for about half of the people on my list that I haven’t mentioned yet. Unfortunately for all of you out in blog land, the remaining people on my list are quite internet-savvy and many of them read this blog. I don’t want to give too much away, so you’ll just have to use your imagination!