{"id":2311,"date":"2012-10-18T19:23:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T00:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2014-04-17T16:26:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T21:26:44","slug":"pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pattern! HexaFlexing Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m not releasing a new podcast\u2014though I&#8217;m prepping <em>Jane Eyre<\/em> RIGHT NOW\u2014so instead I&#8217;m releassing a new pattern!<\/p>\n<p>My husband recently sent me links to the three videos I&#8217;ve loaded below. He said &#8220;for the boys&#8221; in his email but, seriously, how could I not attack these? I did a quick &#8220;knitted flexagon&#8221; web search and found that no one had yet made a pattern for this (though you can find oh-so-cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woollythoughts.com\/foldingcushions.html\">pillows<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/tmRN5xFPCqs\">kaleidocycles video<\/a> and \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/knitted-kaleidocycles\">pattern<\/a>) so I made my own!<\/p>\n<p>October 21st is the birthday of the instigator behind the craze (<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5949799\/have-you-met-the-hexaflexagon-if-not-its-high-time-you-did\">Martin Gardner<\/a>) \u00a0so knit up a passel (while listening to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/craftlit\/?page_id=1405\">Flatland<\/a><\/em>) and spread the word of his genius (and the genius of a number of other quite-bright kids).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3513\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/uploadedImage_medium2.png.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3513\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3513\" alt=\"hexaflexagon knit pattern ordover\" src=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/uploadedImage_medium2.png.jpeg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/uploadedImage_medium2.png.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/uploadedImage_medium2.png-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 facelikefizz<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">These can be knit with any yarn, at any gauge, with any needles (that fit your yarn). As long as you have a neutral and three other colors, you&#8217;re golden. Photo-instructions for sewing and folding and provided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Buy now for $4.00 via<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/purchase\/crafting-a-life-originals\/122128\">Ravelry<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftsy.com\/pattern\/knitting\/toy\/simple-hexaflexagon\/33744\">Craftsy<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/shop\/?page_id=172#toys\">Crafting-a-Life Shoppe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Enjoy and please share your pictures and modifications. I cannot wait to see what you do with this!<\/p>\n<p>Hexaflexagon video 1<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VIVIegSt81k\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nHexaflexagon video 2<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/paQ10POrZh8\" height=\"180\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nHexaaglexagon (tongue in cheeck) safety guide<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AmN0YyaTD60\" height=\"180\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m not releasing a new podcast\u2014though I&#8217;m prepping Jane Eyre RIGHT NOW\u2014so instead I&#8217;m releassing a new pattern! My husband recently sent me links to the three videos I&#8217;ve loaded below. He said &#8220;for the boys&#8221; in his email but, seriously, how could I not attack these? I did a quick &#8220;knitted flexagon&#8221; web [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,195,90,4],"tags":[41,348,282,349],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting","category-patterns","category-tutorial","category-web-fun","tag-knit","tag-math","tag-pattern","tag-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}