a·pi·cul·ture: noun
The raising and care of bees for commercial or agricultural purposes.

Miriam dreams of owning some land, raising vegetables, chickens, and bees. She pours over books of chicken breeds and heirloom seed catalogs dreaming of the day she can build her little self-sufficient farm. And what farm would be complete without bees to pollinate the crops and make delectable honey. The hexagonal motifs in this piece are reminiscent of honeycombs.

These hexagons can be arranged in a multitude of ways! Don’t feel limited by the diagram or the scarf shape if you get a creative urge to do something different!

The wonderful thing about motifs is that once you’ve made a bunch you can lay them out and play around with what you want to make. For this project we made a scarf, but you could easily add another column or two of motifs and make a wrap, or use this layout and make a triangular shawl. You could make a lot of motifs and end up with a blanket too!

Adjust your hook or needle size so that both knit and crochet motifs block to the same size (your knit motifs will probably have a larger difference after blocking than the crochet motifs, but both will benefit from a good soaked blocking).

There’s an alternate layout on the knitty page if you wish to have a triangular shawl instead. You would need 40 motifs to work the triangular shawl layout as shown. How you divide up these 40 into knit and crochet is up to you. If you want a more open shawl, work more crochet motifs. If you want a more solid shawl, work more knit motifs. The finished shawl in the layout below would be about 78” across the wingspan.