Binary Blanket finished

 Well you get the idea..

Here is the whole blanket finished. 

I'm not overly thrilled with it, I have to say. But it feels nice.

I'll have to have a re-think on the colours, that might help. And maybe smaller blocks, too.

They can't all be winners!

Binary Blanket, Y-A-R-N blocks

The first square is for the 'Y' in yarn and consists of 01111001 which will be:

Row 1 - warm colour

Row 2-5 - cool colour

Row 6-7 - warm

Row 8 - cool.

Using the colours petrol and tomato.

I love the waffley look. 

It's 19cm wide so 16 of them should yield a blanky about 76cm plus a border so may be 85cm square. A nice lap size. Also a good size for a pet or toddler to snuggle with.

The next square is for the 'A' in yarn. and that's 01100001 which works out to be:

Row 1. warm

Row 2 -3. cool

Row 4-7. warm

Row 8. cool

and I'm using Mustard and Bottle for this one.

I really do love the waffley look and it's reversible! 

The next square is for the 'R' in yarn, and that's 01110010 which works out to be:

Row 1. warm

Row 2 -4. cool

Row 5-6. warm

Row 7. cool

Row 8. warm

and I've got Fuchsia and Royal for this one.

as you can see, I've started labelling them!

The next square is for the 'N' in yarn, and that's 01101110  which works out to be:

Row 1. warm

Row 2 -3. cool

Row 4. warm

Row 5-7. cool

Row 8. warm

and I've got  Boysenberry and Proper purple for this one.

                                                        

Binary Blankie, colours and pattern

Happy New Year 🎆🎇

Colours.

I wrote about finger swatches the other day. Another thing I do is have a wee container of 12dc squares to play with. I've picked 8 colours out to do this blanky.

Warm: Tomato, Mustard, Fuchsia Purple, Boysenberry

Cool: Petrol, Bottle, Royal, Proper Purple

and I have chosen tomato and petrol for the first one.

Pattern.

I've been trying to decide what to do the squares as. I'm so over grannies now. 🥴

Choices... plain dc, work between dc's, a pretty square like something from Lucy's collection...

I think it needs to have even sized rows for the colour to work. I'm still going with the illusion of someone reading the binary so I'd like it to be clear.

I did a whole big blanket in the work between stitch and really liked it. It has quite a thick feel to the fabric and has a sort of waffle texture.

The other time I used this stitch was on Doris Chan's All Shawl, being triples it came out nice and lacy. I think I used it on a Lion Brand bag pattern too, now I think about it.

The pattern is here, for the big blanket I made.  

(Kaz works with Lucy to re-imagine her designs with each new colour pack. Check out all the pretty Harmony blankets!)

Here is the one I made.

I've done a chart for the squares - up to row 8 as that's what we need for this project.

In between stitch square pattern.
Row 1. Ch3, join with a slip stitch (JSS) to form a ring. Ch3, 2dc, (ch1, 3dc)x3, ch1. JSS. Turn. =12dc + 4ch

Row 2. Ch3, 1 dc in same space, *1dc in between the next st to the corner ch, 2dc, ch1, 2dc in the corner ch * Rep ** 4 times, omitting the last 2dc of corner at the end. JSS. Turn. = 24dc + 4 ch

Row 3. Ch3, 1 dc in same space, *1dc in between the next st to the corner ch, 2dc, ch1, 2dc in the corner ch * Rep ** 4 times, omitting the last 2dc of corner at the end. JSS. Turn. = 36dc + 4ch.

Carry on like that for 8 rows total (for this project) in the colours as per the binary code.

I used a 5mm hook with Stylecraft special DK.

Binary Blankie

I thought I'd do a year long project, you know like a temperature blanket or scarf.

But I don't think I really have the patience for something that takes all year, though. and having something unfinished hanging around for a YEAR!! Nope.

I've done that before, a scarf. I didn't take a year; I looked up the temperatures from the year before and smashed it out over a couple of weekends.

I still like the idea of using data to make something though.

Interesting data sets might include:

idea 1:

How many traffic lights are green on my way to work each day.
I could do a 5 row square (there are 5 traffic lights) each row based on green/red.

I would have to pay attention and remember the lights and write them down when I got to work. All year. I probably wouldn't do that!

idea 2:

I can see a crane out my window. It has a flashy light on top. If I glance up at the end of each row and see if it's on or off, that would determine the colour of the next row. Lets see how that will work by noting it down --- oh the tree outside has leaves now. I can't actually see the flashy light at the moment!!

idea 3:

I like the on/off or yes/no idea. It's 2 balls of yarn. 

That's binary! I could write something and convert it to binary code 0010010100101111010101010 (not actual binary) that would make a nice stripe sequence. 

So I looked up how binary code works and each letter, or other character, is 8 bits (or rows for us) So I could do squares and each square is a character of 8 rows/bits. 

An 8 row granny or solid dc square is fairly big.

I could change the colours each square so it's not too samey-samey. 

Maybe have all the '1' in a blue/ green palette and all the '0' in a red/ orange/ pink palette.

Hmm, OK. So 3 rows of 4 letters (or 4 rows of 3 letters)

yarn     01111001 01100001 01110010 01101110

cake    01100011 01100001 01101011 01100101

hugs     01101000 01110101 01100111 01110011   

Ok, well the colours need work, but that's what the word yarn looks like in binary granny squares. I'm sure you Never wondered!

I used the first text too binary converter in google search to get the codes.

https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/ascii-to-binary.html 

And stitch fiddle to get an idea of what they look like.

Oooo, I likey!

Right so that's a plan.

Not sure about the rectangle though. What's another word to add?

yarn     01111001 01100001 01110010 01101110

hugs     01101000 01110101 01100111 01110011  

cake    01100011 01100001 01101011 01100101

love     01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101

and a border

This is going to be fun!

and the same thing in 2 colours:

I think I like the multi colour one better.

SO that's the plan - a binary blankie!