Unlike the other patterns so far, there is a bit more randomness to the wave patterns - they don’t break in the same kind of pattern each time. However, when they are beautifully clean waves (lower middle photo via Emilie) they make me think of a mathematical tanh function (!). I had a very rainy cycle one day to catch some wilder, less clean waves, it was only the surfers and seagulls on the beach.
Initially I tried a pattern to be consistent with the previous squares and be a 2 x horizontal repeat (lower left photo). However, this didn’t look very much like the photos I’d taken of the waves. So, I broke with the previous patterns and went for a 1 x horizontal repeat with an offset in the waves to match the photos better.
I made the patterns in a spreadsheet before knitting up a test swatch. The bottom left photo in the collage above shows the trial patterns I went through before deciding which I liked.
General principles for square patterns:
Repeat pattern horizontally and vertically & simple to knit pattern.
36 stitches x 48 rows (ish, this one is 49!) for main pattern as these are very divisible numbers.
An 'x' means purl on a knit row, and knit on a purl row to create the texture.
This lower chart is the format I found to be most useful to me:
White = knit row (right side), grey = purl row (wrong side).
An 'x' = purl on a knit row, and knit on a purl row
The numbers are just a handy guide to the number of stitches in each knit or purl block.
*Note* this one is not symmetrical - purl rows read from the left!
Written pattern:
See blanket pattern for required needles & yarn.
(k = knit, p=purl)
Cast on 36 stitches
Rows 1-3: st stitch
Row 4: p11, k14, p11
Row 5:k9, p18, k9
Row 6: p7, k22, p7
Row 7: k6, p24, k6
Row 8: p5, k26, p5
Row 9: k4, p2, k24, p2, k4
Row 10: k5, p26, k5
Rows 11-15: st stitch
Row 16: p20, k14, p2
Row 17: p18, k18
Row 18: k2, p14, k20
Row 19:p21, k12, p3
Row 20: k4, p10, k22
Row 21: k21, p2, k8, p2, k3
Row 22: p4, k10, p22
Row 23-27: st stitch
Row 28: p2, k14, p20
Row 29: k18, p18
Row 30: k20, p14, k2
Row 31: p3, k12, p21
Row 32: k22, p10, k4
Row 33: k3, p2, k8, p2, k21
Row 34: p22, k10, p4
Rows 35-39: st stitch
Row 40: k7, p22, k7
Row 41: p9, k18, p9
Row 42: k11, p14, k11
Row 43: p12, k12, p12
Row 44: k13, p10, k13
Row 45: k12, p2, k8, p2, k12
Row 46: p13, k10, p13
Rows 47-49: st stitch
Cast off
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