Reddit news feed

My company recently installed a 'magic' water cooler. It is supposed to create alkaline drinking water and comes complete with claims to increase energy and cure cancer (all unsourced of course). One of the claims it makes is that the water molecules are "six sided".

I found a link to the theory here although I believe this is a competing magic water brand it explains the theory.

Is there any truth at all to this? Is there really any difference in five sided or six sided water? Is six sided water even a real thing? If I had a glass of six sided water molecules could I somehow differentiate them from regular water?

Hello Everyone!

I will be starting a hexagon quilt soon, but I have little to no experience with quilting. The hexagon schematic is fairly straight forward, and I did a tiny (by comparison) 13"x18" square for Christmas, so I'm confident in my ability to complete the quilt top by hand (I currently lack a sewing machine). My quilt will be a king size, so ~103"x90", made up of 1,020 3" hexagons.

I'm putting together a scaled pattern (just graph paper printed off, taped together, and possibly laminated), but I'm a little worried about the other two layers of the quilt.

Will it be possible to quilt the whole thing by hand? As of today, I have 4 months to complete this (it's a birthday present for my boyfriend). It took me 55-60 hours to hand sew ~200 .5" hexagons for his Christmas present, but that was put in a shadow box and did not consist of the batting and backing. Also, for my other project, I left the paper templates in the hexagons. I'd like to do that again as it made the hex's nicely rigid and much easier to work with (especially the bigger it got!). Is that okay to do for a quilt that will be regularly used? How will the paper effect me when I get around to putting together the quilt sandwich? How many different colors/types of fabric would you recommend? I was thinking somewhere in the ball park of 15-20 for variety - is that too many? Not enough? Is four months a reasonable amount of time to complete this? Those 55-60 hrs I spent on his Christmas present were over the course of 4 days, and that was a particularly stressful pace that I'd prefer to avoid. ;)

Any tips y'all could give me would be awesome! Most of the advise I've seen has been about quilt tops, and doesn't really apply to hexagon quilts since you use the paper templates to sew around.

Thank you all so very much! :) I appreciate any wisdom you're able to bestow in this arena.

It's delicious, comes in hexagonal slices, and I think it contains cheddar cheese and some kind of sausage bits. I hope you don't have to be part of a school to order it, and I hope they still make it!

I'm trying to knit the {Spiral Scarf](http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/spiral-scarf) from "Knitting Nature" by Norah Gaughan. The pattern calls for making incrementally smaller and smaller hexagons, which are then connected together to make a scarf.

The pattern for an individual hexagon uses 3 dpns, where you CO 2 "sides" of the hexagon on each needle. For example: (CO 22 stitches, pm, CO 22 stitches) for each needle. Next the pattern says to work in k1p1 ribbing for 1 round, then do a k2tog decreases before each marker and the end of each needle (decrease 6 stitches/ round.) I've tried this twice today and my results end up looking like a circle and not a hexagon, even after blocking.

Any suggestions or thoughts on what I might be doing wrong are greatly appreciated!

http://imgur.com/XJamK