The Triangle Twist Fold Quilt Experiment Number One

Twist folding is really a fancy way to crumple. As you may have guessed, the two layers above have a lot in common. They have the same three axis network, the same number of blue triangles, and truncated white triangles. The topmost piece is however missing almost all it's green hexagons. Except for some slightly raised flaps the green has disappeared into the pleats created by the triangle twist fold in action. The Removal of this area (47.7) percent of the total has seriously drawed up (that's a technical term, shrunk) the mostly green free, and now highly modeled example.

This is the backside of the twist folded sample above. Fortunately the transparent tape I used to repair ruptured folds doesn't show. At this small size, I found copier paper really didn't want to be this shape even after scoring the lines with a used up ball point pen. I did the scoring on top of a poster board. A harder surface would probably have caused burnished instead of weakened lines. It took me more than an hour to herd this little, ragged sample into shape.

The test section to the right is about all I can do about sewing the top of this quilt right now, but I couldn't leave it alone. Another look at Ron Resch's "Paper and Stick" made me long once again for a more involved surface (one of his was all twisty bits and slits). My attempt at closing down the gap never worked well enough to be worth polishing up. The map below is still full of extraneous colored lines where I realized I was on the wrong track and instead of starting over I just changed colors.

None of these tiling twist fold tests were easy (the one that got sewn took the better part of two hours to fold) and tore quite a few times. The one to the left never settled more than two twisty bits at a time in two hours. It may work in a larger size but this one was too tough for me so far. 
I had much better luck with the one below. It splits the difference between the last two versions and folded well even though the net printed slightly denser. 

  

 I just penciled this one in, made a copy, and scored it up with a dead ball point pen. It worked so well it's going to be the basis of yet another twist fold test quilt and the subject of another article. Next!