So, when friends have babies, I typically try to determine if there’s a cool pattern that would mean something special to them that I could use, like the friends who got married at a strawberry u-pick got a strawberry hat, or my cousin who loves ladybugs got a ladybug hat.
M Kasemer, R Quey, P Dawson - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2017
This baby’s dad studies “the deformation response of polycrystalline structural alloys”. Apparently that involves modeling your solid with lots of hexagons in varying colors (except they’re called Voronoi tessellations).
So, I was informed that a cool hat would be one comprised of hexagons, using up all my different colored scraps. All well and good, until I realized how many ends that meant I would have to sew in. It was super fiddly, and I’m not fully convinced on how the attachment between hexagons worked out. I think that if I were to do it again I might just knit the hexagons flat and sew them all together after-I think that probably would have been easier than what I ended up doing!
I am very pleased with how it turned out though, and I’m glad I could do something involving his research for his baby’s hat. I made it out of knitpicks swish yarn, which I love for baby hats since it isn’t super expensive, it’s machine washable and it’s soft!
I’m still struggling with the best way to take pictures of hats, particularly kids ones. This time I tried a balloon, which sorta worked, but still isn’t ideal…