Wave Sandwich

Wave Sandwich is an intermediate smocking plate charted on 35 pleats and 5 worked rows. A wave held between an outline row above and a stem row below. It uses outline, wave and stem, stitched in powder blue and sage.

The plate at a glance

Level	Intermediate
Pleats charted	35
Worked rows	5
Pleater setup	7 pleater rows (5 worked plus one holding row above and below)
Mirrored	yes, around pleat 18
Pleated width	8.75 in at 0.25 in per pleat
Raw fabric width at 3:1	26.25 in
Colors	2: powder blue and sage
Thread in all	2.13 yd

Row by row

Rows 1 to 5 read top down, pleats 1 to 35 from the left.

Rows	Stitch	Color	Pleats	Bites
1	Outline	Sage	1 to 35	35
2 to 4	Wave	Powder blue	1 to 35	35
5	Stem	Sage	1 to 35	35

The needle movement for Outline, Stem and Wave is described in the glossary.

Floss for this plate

Color	Thread (yd)	Skeins needed	Skeins to buy
Powder blue	0.73	0.05	1
Sage	1.4	0.09	1

Sage carries 66 percent of the thread; estimate for 3 strands, formula in the floss guide.

Pleats by chest size

The plate is mirrored around pleat 18, so the garment sizes keep an odd pleat count. The chart's 35 pleats cover 8.75 in; a front panel for an 18 in chest pleats to 41 pleats (30.75 in of fabric), one for a 28 in chest to 61 pleats (45.75 in); the full table by chest size is in how the sizing works.

Compared with the other free plates

The only free plate charted on 35 pleats.
Outline also appears in Outline and Stem Ladder, Sailor Jon-Jon Band.
Stem also appears in Outline and Stem Ladder.
Wave also appears in Wave Stripe, Bishop Yoke Classic, Sunrise Wave Panel.
With 5 worked rows: 8 free plates are shorter, 5 longer, 1 the same length.
It belongs with Wave and Trellis Sampler, eight plates on 45 pleats; the closest to this plate are Trellis with Outline Edges and Single Wave.

Print at 100 percent and check the inch square. See also how to read a plate and using a pleater.