Hexagon Happiness

I am obsessed with hexagons. I have been making them for two weeks during any available TV time. I have watched many football games, a few basketball games and a TV show here and there, all while crocheting hexagons. I have been fascinated with all the different shapes that are created with crochet. I am amazed how easy it is to create these shapes, with just a few stitches and chains. I stumbled across Sarah at http://tangledhappy.blogspot.com, she had these beautiful hexagon bags displayed on her blog. Sarah cruises blogs to find the most interesting projects and sends you a link to the creaters blog. So while looking at this blog, I decided to make a hexagon bag. I looked up how to make a hexagon on Lucy at Attic24, and I was off.

The centers are made from remnants of Noro yarn I made a vest from years ago. I thought the way each center varied slightly would make the bag interesting. I then crocheted a solid border of purple, blue or grey. The final round was of this lovely red Cascade 220, such a great reliable, and affordable yarn. I crocheted 28 hexagons and then crocheted them all together.

It was really fun to put it together, like a giant hexagon puzzle. I added straps from Joann's and here is the finished bag.

Sorry my shoe is in the picture. I think it turned out pretty good for my first attempt at a crochet bag. I tried to line it but decided it wouldn't work the way I wanted it to. This bag will be for light projects, nothing too heavy.

So if you know anything about me at all you know I become a bit obsessed with a project and I will make a zillion of them until I run out of steam. So yes, I will be making number two as soon as I make it to the yarn store tomorrow. I think the next one will have a Noro center also, but this one I intend on felting. I think the colors will blend beautifully with felting, and felting adds something wonderful......stability. Ah yes, stability in a bag is important if you ever want to carry anything of weight, like a knitting book, Kindle, Nook, ipad, you know what I am saying here. I am very excited about this new project.

Making these hexagons was very fun and felt like I was accomplishing something pretty fast. One hexagon crochets up easily so you have a sense of accomplishment right away. I think a fun hexagon scarf would be great, an afghan would be beautiful and a different shape then your regular granny square blanket.

So that is finished project number 9. I won't be keeping up at this pace for long. I had a slight lull in my caseload these past few weeks, I am up to full speed this next week, so knitting, weaving and crochet time will be a bit less. But I am still very happy that 9 projects, well actually 10 are complete in one month. I will show you 10 in another post.

Hope you are having a great day.