A mistake I’m reclassifying as a happy accident is that I separated the threads wrong in stage 2. I started with the same 6-strand thread at the point the pen is pointing to, working out in both directions with 3 strand floss. But when i continued, I accidentally split the 6 threads 4 and 2, so the lower right is chunky and the upper left is sparse. But if i continue this 4/3/2/3/4 pattern it’s one more axis of variation for the curve!

When I had this idea I almost dismissed it and @chrisamaphone talked me into it a bit, but this is coming together pretty great

A little obsessed with this project

There's a pretty good chance that I'm not going to get through the full intended fifth-iteration hilbert curve without running out of thread on one skein of floss I currently have for the project. If that happens I'm just going to have this one end wherever it ends; I already have an unwieldy number of ideas for other space filling curve projects after this one.

That’s all that the single skein is going to give me, so I’m going to call this one done for now - Hilbert Curve #1 (Unfinished)

Second Hilbert Curve crossstitch - filling in the negative space

Oh this one is gonna be very cool

First quadrant complete

I interrupt this progress on Hilbert Curve #2 (Partition) to show you the framed Hilbert Curve #1 (Unfinished)

I now return to the regularly scheduled Hilbert Curve, already in progress

Hilbert Curve #2 (Partition) is complete. The Hilbert Curve is in the stitches you *dont* make…