very important blanket update
Jul. 27th, 2024 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatBIG NEWS I am now decreasing on both sides of the blanket! We are in the final phase!
(Okay, so here's my less-than-coherent description of how a rectangular corner-to-corner blanket works, for when my future self has forgotten what I'm talking about. Note to my future self: really any youtube video demonstrating it would probably be more helpful than this.
First Phase: TEENY TINY CORNER expands on both sides, making a triangle! It makes the blanket get equally wider and taller at the same time.
Second Phase: ONE side keeps expanding, while the OTHER side starts decreasing. In a delightfully magical* consequence, this means the blanket stays the same width and still gets 'taller.' This is the rectangle bit, even though the shape during this phase is an increasingly-awkward four-sided polygon.
FINAL PHASE: Once the blanket is as tall as you want, BOTH sides decrease, filling in the remaining triangle of space to make a rectangle!)
[*I suspect this is not actually a magical consequence, but rather something to do with how shapes work. My understanding of how shapes work is not strong, so it seems astonishing and mysterious to me. Luckily, I live in an era where I don't have to figure out my own blanket patterns, but can instead receive free instruction from the internet and follow along on faith until I figure out what's going on.]
(Okay, so here's my less-than-coherent description of how a rectangular corner-to-corner blanket works, for when my future self has forgotten what I'm talking about. Note to my future self: really any youtube video demonstrating it would probably be more helpful than this.
First Phase: TEENY TINY CORNER expands on both sides, making a triangle! It makes the blanket get equally wider and taller at the same time.
Second Phase: ONE side keeps expanding, while the OTHER side starts decreasing. In a delightfully magical* consequence, this means the blanket stays the same width and still gets 'taller.' This is the rectangle bit, even though the shape during this phase is an increasingly-awkward four-sided polygon.
FINAL PHASE: Once the blanket is as tall as you want, BOTH sides decrease, filling in the remaining triangle of space to make a rectangle!)
[*I suspect this is not actually a magical consequence, but rather something to do with how shapes work. My understanding of how shapes work is not strong, so it seems astonishing and mysterious to me. Luckily, I live in an era where I don't have to figure out my own blanket patterns, but can instead receive free instruction from the internet and follow along on faith until I figure out what's going on.]
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Date: 2024-07-28 10:13 pm (UTC)I once did a mitered square baby blanket and regretted it immensely when I couldn't just stop it when I was sick of it/it was big enough, instead I had to see the pattern out to the end. It came out nicely but a project that I can't decide it's done early was something I'd only do once. ;)
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Date: 2024-07-29 11:44 am (UTC)