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The final contribution from the knitters was Making Waves.

It evolved from playing with more octagons.  Look at the ends of the ‘columns’ in the photograph. One end of each is obviously an octagon though it is in two colours - a dark, non-regular, hexagon and a lighter ‘curved’ piece. The darker piece gives the impression that you are looking at the end of a pipe or tube.

The first impression is that seven tubes appear to be lying together, pointing in alternate directions. Cover the top of the photograph. Looking at the bottom of the photograph, pipes 1, 3, 5 and 7 are lying on the ground with the hexagonal cross-section perfectly clear. They are hexagonal pipes. The flat ends of pipes 2, 4 and 6 cannot be seen at all therefore the eye believes the pipes are standing upright on those ends. Uncover the top of the photograph and those pipes will still appear to be standing up. From this view the pipes appear to be tapered. This could be due to the angle at which the photograph was taken but if this is the reason all of the pipes should be tapering away.

If you could turn the photograph upside down, pipes 1, 3, 5 and 7 would be standing up. If you could turn the photograph sideways, you would probably see an undulating surface when the eye can’t decide which part to take as its reference point.

The pipes are identical. Each pipe was knitted in one piece. A hexagon was made first and stitches picked up from the edge of it. The other sections really consist of a centre square with a parallelogram on each side. These three pieces were worked together but used exactly the same rules as the same shapes would use when they are worked separately. Working the three pieces together, with increases between, has the effect of making straight ridges of knitting in the centre and sloping ridges on the two sides. This creates a slight shading which adds to the effect of a shaped pipe.

MAKING WAVES