Great job! I really like the look of it.

It looks amazing!!

Your tension is amazing! I can’t wait to see it with the bees on

Thanks! This took me about two weeks - I'd say 35-40 hours of knitting altogether. It's worsted weight, which works up reasonably quickly.

This is beautiful! I love it. Did it take super long? The knit looks really fine.

Thank you!

The entire thing is just knit except for the hexagon pattern, which are knit on the right (front) side, then purled on the wrong (back) side. The angled parts are made with right and left twists, which are simpler to execute than the instructions make them sound.

Colour changes are generally fairly easy. If you're thinking about doing just the hexagons in a different colour, the instructions for intarsia cables would be the best place to start. Intarsia also looks more complicated than it is in practice, though in this case I think it would be a good idea to make a practice swatch to test it first. You'd want to add the new colour when you do the first purl stitches for each hexagon on the wrong side, then I think the "2tog" part of each twist would use that strand instead of the background colour. I'd also test doing the entire twist in the second colour to see what that ends up looking like and go with whichever one I liked best.

ETA: I'd also recommend using something like a German twisted cast on and Icelandic bind off. They're both a bit stretchy, so the top and bottom of the blanket won't feel tight or pull in.

Very cool!

Funny thing, I actually did the opposite years ago. I think the only thing I have that isn't in storage and could read a CD is an old hacked Wii.

That is gorgeous!! That's a beautiful color

I can't really knit. I've learned how to cast on and the basic knit stitch but I'd be willing to try for this blanket. which looking up the term garter stitch I guess that's what it is

How are the honey combs made? How easy is a color change in knitting? I'd love to see it done in a contrasting color

What a fine looking blanket! You should be extremely proud of this work!

Or finally upgraded their record player to a CD player.

I'm using yarn for this one. The embroidered spots will be much less stretchy than the rest of the fabric, but I think that'll be fine. My biggest consideration will be making sure I'm not causing the fabric to bunch weirdly around the bees. I've never done embroidery before so I'm going to knit a swatch to experiment on before I touch the actual blanket.

Do you embroider with yarn, or just regular embroidery floss?

Also, are there any considerations you have to make about the stretchiness of the knit once you've embroidered it?

Hexagons are the bestagons! Lovely colour too!

I definitely will! I still need to make a swatch to test embroidery on garter before I go for it on the blanket, which I think I'll save for the weekend when I have more time to dedicate to it.

'Off the needles' sounds like you kicked a heroin addiction.

I so so want to see the bees! 🐝

Looks amazing

Beautiful! That gold yarn is just perfect for the "honeycomb" vibes! Please do make sure to share when you add the bees! What a fun project! :)

I love how crisp the twisted stitches look.

I use Stitch Fiddle to do something similar, especially for colour coding complex cable charts or marking where to add beads, then export to PDF so I can load it into KnitCompanion for tracking. It makes life so much easier.

Well, TIL that cross-stitch and needlepoint aren't the same thing. I did one of those as a kid with my grandmother frequently. Plastic grid with some sort of yarn or whatnot. I remember her calling it needlepoint, but I'm sure other people in my life used the terms interchangeably. Based on what I read, I still don't know which I did; it sounds like a combination.

Do not get me started on tatting!

They’re the same thing though.

Mine isn't recreation of the pattern because they did theirs on regular needles. One row at a time and I'm not entirely sure how. Mine is using a snaking pattern on because it was the only way I could figure to pull it off. I have no idea how they were doing i-cords on regular needles. I'd love to find that pattern.

That is so cool! God, the talent of fiber artists astounds me. Recreating a pattern from memory is just mind blowing to me. I love it. Cannot wait to see the finished project if you're willing to keep posting!