Unorthodox braids with an even number of loops, part the next (4 loops!)

I'm gonna be doing more experiments with the Sion A-fell unorthodox 6-loop braid, but for grins I quickly tried the 4-loop version.

Ooh....  It's fun and educational!

I cut 2 loops and folded them in half, which is why this braid is 2 colors.  I started with one color on the middle finger and the other color on the ring finger.

The 4-loop A-fell unorthodox braid:  the index finger goes through the middle finger loop and picks up the ring finger loop on the other hand.  I started with my right hand, but it's probably very similar or the same if one starts with the left hand.

This makes a triangular braid which spirals slightly as it grows, though of course some of that could be me or the yarn I'm using.

First I took loops reversed, hooking from the bottom of the loop.  I really like this one!  It forms 3 Vs, one per side (the bottom is slightly looser but it's really not noticeable unless you look for it).  The colors are nested V V V V, alternating colors, rather than being a spiral.

Then I took the loops unreversed.  The braid is a little tighter.  The shape is a very high domed D with a shallow groove in the bottom.  The top looks like a round braid and the bottom looks like a square braid, and like above, there are three sides to the braid if you count the top D as two of the sides.  There is one V on each side of the D and the other two sides are lined up as / or \, so it looks like a V on one side of the braid is connected to an A on the other side, in a longish ellipse.  If that makes sense.  The top of the braid looks like A V, with the inner part of the A connecting to the inner part of the V of the next-down level of the braid. The bottom is a slanted line(s) that goes across the groove, which connects the outer edge of the V with the outer edge of the A on the previous-up level of the braid.  It too is a very nice braid.

Then I took the loops reversed, hooking from the top of the loop.  This is very similar to hooking from the bottom.  I think (but I'm not 100% sure) that hooking from the top is not quite as crisp, and my guess would be because hooking one way slightly twists the plies of the yarn, while hooking from the other direction slightly untwists them.

This is a pretty fabulous braid and I will keep it in my repertoire.  I will eventually see what happens with loops of different colors, bi-color loops, etc., and also compare it to a 4-loop orthodox braid (this is an orthodox braid on one side but not the other).  But wow, this is a very quick braid to make and gives a lot of bang for the buck.

If I get to 6-loop braids today, I might add on to this post rather than make a new post.  Or I might make a new post anyway.

Dunno if I want to draw out the Noemi Speiser style track diagrams for these braids.  Eh, probably not.  Or at least not yet.