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
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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-
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.