Try a Trio of Triangle Hammocks

You can't fit a square peg into a round hole. You can't hang a square hammock in a corner. Solve one of these problems with a triangle!

Maybe you'll notice I'm not using hose. Or maybe not! It's not hose. Construction paper is not fecal-friendly. I'm sick at home so this is what I've got, but paper is a great way to prototype your hose fabrication ideas.

The easiest way to make a triangular hammock is to start a normal woven one and give up halfway.

"Bolt" up those two straight edges as you go, then hypotenuse that sucker by trimming off the extra strip lengths. Bolt the cut edge and you're ready for business. The right-angled design is perfect for hanging in the corner of two walls or other tight spaces. One done!

Maybe you're more OCD and you like equilateral triangles. This is a bit trickier, but since no-one's ever made these before and you're reading poorly documented instructions from a sick person, nobody can blame you for the end product!

Make a frame where each side is about four times the length of the hose width you have. This will be one piece of hose and you'll have to bolt each corner as you co so they lay flat for you. The "handed-ness" of how you fold doesn't really matter because you're bolting it all down, but if you want them all turning the same direction more power to you. Looking at the picture now I realized mine is funky like the logo on messed up recycling bins. \_(ツ)_/¯

Now the tricky part. Take another piece of hose and weave in a triangular pattern, using the frame as the piece you wrap around. You'll need to bolt each overlap on the frame to secure them but you get a nice loosely woven hammock that looks pretty neat.

If you hate yourself, you can take the same frame size and make a tightly woven hammock by adding another strip. The important part is to keep the second layer of hose close to the corners of the first frame piece. This creates an opportunity to weave a third layer in the gap going the other direction.

Place your third piece in there by going over/under like you would with any other weaving, but notice that you won't have tight junctures like you did in the first hammock example. If you look closely, the yellow was inserted under the orange, over the purple, under the purple, and over the orange.

Fold the tail end of the third strip, yellow here, over the corner of the frame and continue weaving on the backside of the hammock. Keep up that pattern of folding over the corners and weaving through until you've worked through all three sides. Hammock two done!

The third way is another right angled triangle and a lot easier to make because it just involves a lot of V's. So make a bunch of V's, however large you want to make this hammock. Line up those V's. Weave those V's. Make yet another V and invert that sucker. Weave that V into your other V's and know you have achieved victory.

Bolt up the two short edges and the long one too if you don't like the flappy folded over look. You could also string a rope through the long edge and utilize it for hanging or whatever. I'm going to take more cold medicine and Netflix the afternoon away with the kids.

There you have it, a trio of triangle hammocks for today because someone asked about it on Facebook. There are probably other ideas but I like alliteration and I'm giving up on today.