hexagons update

[dragonlady7]

Just a progress report on my hexagons-- I need to find some orange fabric!


51, by my admittedly distracted count, completed so far!


I should stitch some together to see if my terrible habits of cutting the corners awfully close is a fatal error when the thing is assembled, before I make too many more mistakes. But, for now, I still have a stack of precut bits and another hundred templates or so, and I want to get a good assemblage completed before I decide on any arrangements.

Comments

[szzzt]

All projects need more orange. It's a sound philosophy.
(maybe I just really, really love warm colors and warm lighting but ORANGE IS SADLY UNDERVALUED imho)

[dragonlady7]

Ha!
So, I'm one of four siblings, and one of the ways we got to have things of our own as a kid is that they were color-coded. At first our mom kind of assigned us colors, but as adults, we've settled into new favorite colors. (As a tot I was red or pink, but as an adult I don't tend to pick things in those colors.)
Orange was assigned to my middle-little sister, and she has retained her fondness for it to this day. So in general, if I find things that are orange, I wind up giving them to her.

Coincidentally or not, she also loves Halloween to an excessive degree, so she winds up with a lot of Halloween-themed items...

Anyway, I always think of her. #1 was purple, #2 (me) was red, #3 orange, and #4 green, and I still tend to buy gifts along those colors-- like if I'm getting everyone earrings, those are the colors I choose.

[toujours_nigel]

That is so very cute! And yes, colour-coding is important with a lot of girls in the family.

[szzzt]

You are very, VERY nearly the teenage mutant ninja turtles. That's awesome XDDD (I Support Raphael, an excellent turtle, always made more sense than Michelangelo or Leonardo or maybe just got more character focus. That is worthwhile.)

Yeah I can't stomach wearing pink really either. Too many smol-me appalled memories of the barbie aisle, I think. Orange is an excellent color: it's loud, it's relatively rare as clothing or as a favorite color so I'm not deluged in orange things, and it's so off-the-wall that it doesn't have terribly strong masculine or feminine associations, aside from construction crews etc. As a pedestrian in a rainy city, I'm all for visibility. Someday I'll find the reflective rickrack that I am convinced MUST exist, somewhere.

yes I wear lots of tie-dye :D

[dragonlady7]

Oh gosh, I barely remember the ninja turtles. They were super popular when I was the right age for them, but-- yeah-- I remember that their colors were how you told them apart. I hadn't thought about that in relation to us. I mean, we were different sizes, mostly, but the way I knew which binder and which Popple were mine...

I just... am tired of pink. I grew out of it, y'know?

I just bought reflective seam piping, though now that I have it I don't have a project for it. (I'd meant to make a waterproof cover for my backpack but then I realized I could buy one inexpensively, so.)
I've seen reflective tape and ribbon but never rick-rack. That's an underserved market, that is. I bet you could get lenticular paint and make your own reflective rickrack... or just applique the reflective piping in a rick-rack shape... Possibly not worth the hassle, but chic as hell.
Oop! Found some on eBay! The Internet is amazing.