I’ve finished the second row of numbers (third row of rectangles) in my Prime Factorization Blanket!
The fun part was that my brother and his wife found out on the 17th of December that their baby is a girl. So, since I was coming up on the prime number 17, I chose to use pastel pink to represent 17. For good measure, I used a pretty rose pink to represent 19.
I only hope that having all that turquoise blue won’t make people think it’s a blanket for a boy, but I’m hoping it’s multicolored enough, it won’t give that idea.
I couldn’t manage to write in all the numbers on the picture, like I did after the first row, but in real life I assure you, you can tell when there are two factors of the same prime.
So here’s how you read the blanket:
The bottom row starts with a blank space for 0.
1 is the same as the background color, since 1 is a factor of every number.
2 is turquoise blue.
3 is yellow.
4 = 2 x 2, so two sections of turquoise.
5 is green.
6 = 2 x 3, so a section of turquoise and a section of yellow.
7 is purple.
8 = 2 x 2 x 2, so three sections of turquoise.
9 = 3 x 3, so two sections of yellow.
Then I did a row of white rectangles (diamonds). Second row of color:
11 is red.
12 = 2 x 2 x 3, so two sections of turquoise and one of yellow.
13 is brown.
14 = 2 x 7, so a section of turquoise and a section of purple.
15 = 3 x 5, so a section of yellow and a section of green.
16 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 2, so four sections of turquoise.
17 is Pink!
18 = 2 x 3 x 3, so a section of turquoise and two sections of yellow.
19 is rose pink.
Next I’ll do a row of white rectangles, then start the next row with 20. The primes in that row will be 23 and 29, so I’ll have to bring in two new colors.
The color sections will show up better after I’ve knitted the white rectangles, but I was impatient to show what I’ve done!
I’m very pleased with how this is turning out. I may have to make myself a Pascal’s Triangle Shawl when I’m done….
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