I’m getting ready to start a temperature blanket and I want it to feature stars – the intended recipient will have constellations on their bedroom wall. Although I like a 5-point star, pentagons need extra shapes to tessellate and that would make this blanket too large. A 6-point star easily becomes a hexagon which are much easier to put together.

I can find stars and I can find hexagons but not the 2 combined on a small enough scale so here’s my design plus the ½ hexagons that I’ll need down the sides.

The silver yarn I’ve used for the prototype will be my filler colour for the non-days at the end of short months plus the beginning of the first and end of the last. I’ll also probably use it for the border. The white yarn is just something from my stash that shows up the star. I’m planning to mark birthdays and feast days by including a metallic thread in the first round, if that works… more prototypes needed.

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