The attempt below is typical of my early efforts at 2D cyclocentric polygon networks. this one looks like it might work, from the back-side, but when flipped over the rippled edge wasn't visible(hardly worth the challenge of sewing that curvy line!). With the time pressure off (weddings over) I decided to revisit my duds to see if there wasn't some way to pull em together.
Even though I'd been unable to coax them to lay flat so far, my previous successes
making pillows out of these tortured polygons ( pillowhedra.blogspot.com) made me hungry for more wiggly strangeness. So I had yet another go at it, and then another.
This effort though promising looking at first glance, took a crazy long time and really didn't ripple worth a darn. The pre-creasing of every-other edge wasn't that effective, yielding a bogus wiggle very slowly.
Rucy, you got some splinin to do! Oh yeah , this was much easier (not). To the right you can see the second run at the channel and spline method. It turned out that the foam-core board wasn't thick enough to hold the tab down for stitching, so I got out the rubber-cement and stuck on some cardboard triangle thickeners. This didn't proceed quickly either.
Tricky at first, this method was effective at holding the wiggle intact accurately. Now if I can just sew it without pulling it loose. I went looking for alternative hand stitches for joining these constantly curving edges. I found what I've been using with a different name in a
University of Kentucky pdf called "Hand Stitches" Prepared by Nadine Hackler, Associate Professor Extension Clothing Specialist.
They called it a catch stitch, and implied it wasn't meant to show. It looks like the redwork stitch, but I can link to it. This is the best way I've come up with to join these wiggly triangles together.
Alrighty then, with the template as a guide (so I don't do more of this than I absolutely have to) I've gotten to the stitchy part. Again Linda Causee's "Quilts A to Z" had a solution. Yup, page 30 again, the Herringbone stitch she recommended for covering along the edges of the Redwork picture blocks and borders worked pretty darn good. I got better, but mine were never as good looking as her's. I tacked all the wiggly triangles and pieces of triangles together while they were being pinned by the grooves in the cardboard and foam-core . Shoulda gotten a shot of the fresh peeled patch-o-wiggly beasties, but I was antsy to sew it down and start the quilting. Continued in "How To Make A Simple Potholder In Only 18 hours".
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