Triangle Twist Fold A Thickness Test

This is the newer pattern I was going on about in the last twist fold article.

Once again I have halved the space between the twisty bits. I really like the way this one looks collapsed. This one looked so interesting I got out all my leftover fleece from my first baby blanket and cut it to match the diagram above. I was hoping that I could get it to collapse into a mattress like form.

  The way the front and back patterns line up has me wanting to try raising the larger central hex s on the back since they move into contact during the twist fold collapse. The smaller hex s disappear into the folds. 





For the thickness fold quilt test I obtained a section of pre-quilted material and marked it using the same sized quilting template as the last (still unfinished) test quilt

  


         
The template at left is the quilting pattern I'm thinking of using, and the triangle grid I used to lay out with. 

Below on the right are the folds only. The long ones are all valley folds, the short ones are all mountains.

I am curious to try thicker and thinner areas to see if I can get a more uniform thickness in the collapsed folding. For now I really just want to finish a test quilt with the looser quilting, a fleece front, cotton batting, and a flannel back. Just seeing how it folds is enough for a first test. The scale of the thickness test piece is the one I have in mind.The size of the test fold sample is about the size of the baby blanket I'm shooting for. 

   This picture shows some of the fleece
pieces laying on the still collapsed thickness test piece, (I hate to unfold it) but there are a bunch more.