Tessellating Tiles

Tessellating patterns are built up by repeating a shape* over and over without spaces. They may look a little dull by themselves, but consider how easy it would be to add a little extra pattern to all of those different repeats. Click on a design for details of the repeating unit.

*Well, one or more shapes really but my whole interest in doing this was finding single shapes that would tessellate.

Perfect Two Colour Tessellations

In all these grids the arrangement of stitches that make up the purple shapes are exactly the same as the arrangement of stitches that make up the white shapes. These patterns give an interesting effect when made up with the double knitting technique because there is little difference between the two sides of the fabric where they would usually have inverse colour schemes.

Perfect Three Colour Tessellations

In these designs the stitch patterns for all tiles remain identical but you need at least three different colours to differentiate them. As I designed them for use with the double knitting technique this is not always optimal so I've also done shaded two tone versions using patterns instead of colours.

Imperfect Tessellations

These patterns would be perfect tessellations if I were drawing them on a square grid. Because I'm using a rectangular grid (more suitable for stocking stitch knitting designs) the dark and light parts are composed of different stitch patterns. Hopefully they still look similar.

Also I gave the puzzle pieces a flat edge so that they would look more like puzzle pieces. I know it's cheating. I don't care.

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