Did you know that hexagons can be infinitely tiled to fill a space, with no gaps? Hextangled – a portmanteau of “hexagon” and “rectangle” – is a blanket made of three types of modular components: hexagons, half-hexagons and hexagon-edges, that combine to form an almost-perfect rectangle. The components have solid stockinette centers, and a linen-stitch outer ring; using two colors, the linen stitch makes bold zig-zags that are the perfect canvas to play with color. A garter stitch-border, with two short-row triangles in opposite corners to fully square the components, is picked up and knit along each edge, and then is finished with a picot bind-off.

This blanket uses the main color for the linen-stitch increase rows and black contrast color for the bind-off of each component and the border. It was designed to use almost every gram of 49 colors in the Scheepjes Stone Washed/River Washed Color Pack; with each hexagon taking almost a full 10-gram mini-skein.

The yarn order was random; the mini-skeins went into a project bag, and it was shaken up and the next color picked was the next color used.I kept the stack of components in order as I finished, soaked and blocked them, letting those original selections guide the look of the final blanket.