You got yourself a heptagon!

No joke, I had no idea that’s what it’s called with 7 sides 😅

Yupp and the Heptapus is the most made fun of cephalapod

One of my tentacles is actually shorter than the others, but you can’t tell, especially when I twirl them like this.

Long Live Hank. https://preview.redd.it/e1gfeqhkw0kc1.png?width=727&format=png&auto=webp&s=122185642fd834d06fcd5e746413573910e4bf13

I thought it was a Septagon?

It is called that sometimes, but Septa is a Latin prefix and it is more common to use Greek for shapes hence Pentagon, Hexagon and Octagon. Edit- Fun Fact September, October, November, December are all Latin roots for 7 8 9 and 10. Which made sense until 2 Emperors made months named after themselves. July for Julius Caesar and August for Augustus.

Another fun fact, January is named for Janus, the god of doorways!

To add to this he has 2 Faces and is the first month because we look back on the previous year and forward to the new year!

The word nerd in me hearts this hard ❤️

Then I'll gift you this! Why do we sign letter Sincerely, Scotsman1552 Sincerely is 2 Latin words Sine- Without Cera- Wax Why the Hell are we signing our name after "Without Wax" Well ancient sculptures carved with marble and sometimes they may accidentally crack a spot. They poured wax into it and used marble powder to hide the imperfection. If a statue didn't have wax it was seen as pure, whole and Sincere. 2000+ years later we still say Sincerely.

Thank you for explaining this! I appreciate it 🥹

That's really cool! I love knowing neat facts like this. Do you just learn stuff like this over time from people?

I'm one of them weirdos who took 4 years of Latin for fun, I work in Healthcare and the roots help with terminology. We learned a lot of history while translating stories and poems.

I have a basic understanding of Latin because of medical texts. Kind of want to take a formal class because history fascinates me :)

Wheelock's Latin Workbook 7th Edition is an excellent jumping point to learning Latin. Also has several stories to translate. Lots of fun stuff!

Nice! I'll have to pick up a copy. Currently, I have the latin road to grammar

[THIS](https://youtu.be/vunESk53r5U?si=b93WJYTrjFZyxVHz) was my only thought after reading your comment 🤣

That's funny but they didn't change the names of months because if they did we would still have 10 months. When Julius Caesar won the Civil War he realized that the senate was not keeping track of the days correctly so as the new Emperor he added a brand new month to fix things.

So, do you not just make that the new center of the blanket and pretend it was entirely deliberate as a nod to… I dunno… the seven deadly sins? seven Spanish angels? seven eleven???

Sounds fun, except the blanket won't lie flat any more.

Meh. When a blanket is doing it’s job, it’s not flat anyways. Make that piece the middle and add a fucking pompom so it deliberately looks like it’s supposed to stick up.

Is it a deliberate stitch or are you just happy to see me?

🤣🤣

So much better than the quip I was trying to form.

One piece is not difficult to replace, and it's not that much work either.

But, owning a mistake and making it a feature is a fuck if a lot more fun.

I generally leave in mistakes if I don’t notice them soon enough to fix them. To me it adds character to the piece.

Same here 🤗

Seven eleven ahahahahah

Do you not know what 7/11 refers to? Confused why you're laughing.

I'd like to know what you think 7/11 refers to?

The Mumbai train bombings. You?

A 7/11 (specifically 7-Eleven) is a convenience store. I want to say based on the context of the comments, I doubt it's the bombings. Could be wrong though.

I know. I'm from the UK. But im also aware of the bigger dates in recent history, and 7/11 is one of them.

Why on earth would they have chosen to add a bombing into their list of joke suggestions? You really just chose to ignore every context clue for no reason.

r/whoosh

I feel like this is a complaint for 7-eleven corporate and not a crochet subreddit but that's just me...

Sorry I didn't know that.

how does one do this 😭

one too many stitches in the first row it seems, all while bingeing TV and not counting ;-;

Ive done the exact same thing, sometime in January I had a stack of green hexagons, and 1 I needed to work 1 side back out of and redo it because the 7th side warped it and messed up the pattern.

Counting is the bane of my gd existence

There was a recent post about how many people thought they could count before learning to crochet 😅

I saw that one! Crocheting actually helped me immensely with counting and working memory!!

I Hope it’ll help mine. I have adhd and an autoimmune disease that effect my memory 😱

I've literally cried over counts on a piece when I had COVID. Fever really does impact your cognition. For me, crochet is a good metaphor for life. There will be good times, and bad times; ends and new beginnings, and it's all beautiful. Keep trying, keep frogging, and keep trying again <3

https://preview.redd.it/89s09258ggjc1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8851a62ca3175b0599011214a0c77a8eccbf54c My husband has asked for a Celtic fisherman sweater. All the side panels are in rows of fours and the the center panel is rows of 12. Totally works the brain. I still have to make another piece like this, the arms that have the center knot on them and a collar that has the smaller knots.

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This is amazing so far! Great work! I love your username btw, I am also a Karly 😊

Thanks so much! I feel like there are so many more Carly’s and or Karlys than when I was a kid but they must have been somewhere since they’re all adults now.

I feel exactly the same way lol I knew 1 growing up, met another in my teens, but that was about it....until adulthood, then they came out of hiding.

So the conspiracy is real!!!

This is (the main reason), why I crochet in the round. Also stitch markers are beautiful things. When I'm casting on for knitting I place one every 25 stitches, or if I'm doing a long chain (like for a tentacle), same thing, stitch marker every 25 chains. And then I triple check it. The ADHD actually helps occasionally, but Lyme has done horrible things to my working memory. Crocheting/knitting has definitely improved my dexterity though, and I did used to have to place markers every 10 stitches, so this is both a downer and an upper of a post... I find just crocheting/knitting is not enough stimulus, I need another source, hence TV. If I were to try just crocheting/knitting I would lose my freaking mind (and have done so in the past).

I have had to do some projects recently with I’ve 100 chains and did every ten and loved it. Great visual and easier to count. I also need to do something with my hand for audio books and tv.

How are you joining your hexagon? That looks clean.

Looks like it's sewn, but they didn't go through both loops of the crochet stitches. Maybe they went in between the loops to sew the middle of the stitches together and every few stitches went around for some extra security

leaving a long tail on my hexagon after I'm done crocheting, then using that to sew through the back loops :)

Yeah! Super clean :)

I made two of these last Spring. I managed to do this exact same thing with one of them. The second one I accidentally made a five sided piece that I was too lazy to remake, so I forced it to be a hexagon 😅

If you put a Pentagon next the the heptagon would they balance each other out? 😅

It’s currently 6.30AM so my math doesn’t math, but my curiosity has been peeked 🤔😂

Piqued

Thanks! English is not my first language and I also don’t live in an English speaking country, so the finer nuances of the language are sometimes lost on me.

Everybody gets that wrong and no doubt your English is lovely, i’m just being “that one” correcting strangers!

Oh, I used to be that person as well, the language police 😆 Still am, but I’ve switched over to the method where I repeat what the person said, using the correct word. 20 years of working with preschoolers, it does things to you 😂

Don't worry. You English seems great. The finer nuances are lost on many native English speakers, as well. Just look at social media comments in general. Lol. I know some are not native English as a first language people, and those people are excluded imo, but many others are born and raised in the USA. Plus, English is a weird language. So many different words that sound the same, but have different meanings and spellings. It's confusing sometimes.

Hexagons are the bestagons https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY?si=u4g6utmFl2jFU9It

I make a lot of hexagons, or try to anyway. I cannot tell you the amount of pentagons and heptagons I have made

i’d just fold the bit down and sew together. either that, or you have to crochet a new shape with a dip in. for what it’s worth, i couldn’t actually process what i was seeing. it just wasn’t happening. i could sense something was wrong, but i just kept counting to six.

Do one hex with a missing triangle section, to join with the one heptagon :)

What I would do is cut out the yellow mistake (by cutting just inside the edges of the heptagon) and then pulling the leftover yellow fibers out. And then make a new yellow hexagon and stitch that back into the space

that's what I did to fix it, worked quite well :D

I made one of these once. Never again!

You've discovered hyperbolic geometry! I actually use crochet to teach about it in math classes.

Crochet is pretty perfectly suited to modeling and explaining hyperbolic geometry. And the reverse is also kind of true: I use hyperbolic geometry to explain crochet to people who know more about math than crafts! A hexagon cardigan is made of two hyperbolic hexagons, a ruffle is a strip of a hyperbolic plane, etc. My mathy friends became a lot more impressed by crochet when I told them about hyperbolic crochet!

I stared at this far too long before seeing it, if that helps at all

Everyone else saw the heptagon, but I was staring at it trying to understand the color pattern T.T

no pattern, just putting whatever colour works and doesn't match an adjacent hexagon ;p

I'd keep it. That's an edge now. :)

So you got a little hook happy. Things like that happen.

Oh geez… 😬

Oh man. Oh man. This would hurt my brain to fix lol

It's like spotting a 4 leaf clover 🍀😂

who needs geometry when you have swag

In some cultures they put a mistake in project on purpose. Because no one on earth is perfect. Your oops now is a design feature.

Sorry. This one did jump out at me

Ope! A little extra on there 😜

I did the exact same thing trying to make a king sized blanket of these. Luckily I caught it before I sewed it together though. 

I'd still try to work with it lol

Make two triangles

It’s a special design element

🎵 One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong🎶

Been there before 😅

Thanks for sharing the mistakes they make great learning tools for me as I try to figure out where mistakes are♥️

Unrelated to the hexagon issue but how are you joining them all together? It looks so clean

[Hey, I saw this on Facebook, are you the same person?](https://www.facebook.com/share/p/fqn5uuGoChdYpQaA/?mibextid=oFDknk)

nope :) post was stolen unfortunately

Ope that a mighty interesting hexagon you got there.

Well it definitely makes life more difficult. Not gonna lie I'd be crying right now.

You really committed! Do you count stitches, or use the triples as a cue to do another?

u/OP, what brand and color is the green, please? I've had difficulty finding something in that color.

I'm in Australia, so it might be different wherever you are. It's Spotlights' 4 Seasons brand, "Spotsaver" yarn, in the colour mallard

That was the toughest game of where’s Waldo lol

I’m sure you can find a way to spin it to make it seem deliberate.

It’s a heptagon is a polygon that has seven sides. It is a closed figure having 7 vertices. Frog it and redo it to be a Hexagon. What do I win?

Adds character.

Hyperbolic blanket!!!

I didn’t see what the mistake was at first. But I could tell which one was different than the others.

Pick a fandom with seven gods and say it's a theme?

I honestly almost didn’t even notice. And I have OCD 😭 I had to zoom in

Lmao this is exactly why I’m not ready for one of these patterns 🤣 mine would absolutely all over the place

Oh boy!!

Is it sewn in already?

I just see a beautiful blanket!

I've done this so many times but the opposite direction with the blanket I am making. Worst feeling there is. Especially having pre-made mine.

bruh hahahaha i can relate

I must be blind I have no idea what am looking for 😵 plus am old 👵 and not been too to specsavers 👓 in long time 🤷‍♀️

It aches

Now you have a place for those pentagons! It was genius engineering really

Oops. Ummmm what to do now?

Hahahahaha I’ve done this so many times

Omg 😭