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Water-bomb X Tessellation
X-pleat columns repeated across the width, separated by stationary vertical valley folds on the back bed. All the moving diagonals and the horizontals are on the front bed; the back-bed folds never move.
- Two beds
Machine types that can knit it
Demo swatch
Drawn for: Double-bed hand flat (V-bed)Approximate preview worked out from the bed chart, not a photo.
The full card
- How it behaves
- Contracts in both directions into a dense bubbly tessellation and stays flexible.
- How it works
- X-pleat columns repeated across the width, separated by stationary vertical valley folds on the back bed. All the moving diagonals and the horizontals are on the front bed; the back-bed folds never move.
- Machines
- Needs a double bed and many transfers. Feasible on a domestic machine with ribber if the column widths are halved.
- Parameters
- Column width Wc, separator F (back bed), rate, Hc, number of columns. 1. Lay out the stationary back-bed vertical folds between columns. 2. Work the X-pleat strip template in each column at the same time. 3. Work the horizontals across the full width.
- Charting
- Blue fixed columns plus red X shapes and red horizontal bands. Keep the chart on squared paper, use the row counter, and tick off each section.
- Limits and common problems
- Easy to lose your place. Mixing up the beds turns pyramids into recesses.
- Combines with
- x-pleat-pyramid-strip, star-waterbomb-tessellation.
- Pieces and assembly
- A flat panel. Use it as a 3D surface panel, sleeve, or cushion face.
Written in our own words from machine manuals, knitting references and swatching. Knit a test swatch before a whole piece.