Begin: the rest is easy, the saying goes.

The math: a sixty-row motif equals how many inches and can that be worked properly into the eye’s need for the design to be in thirds or at the very least set up in odd numbers visually. That’s heighth-wise and at the start of the piece: now, how does it affect it width-wise when you need space to have this and this and add this and this later.

After more sketching and staring at colors in various lights, today I knew I would be disappointed if I didn’t finally just dive in and start to see what it wants to become in real life. So I did. And now the next big afghan project is past the ribbing and on its way.

Eight color changes on that last row, sixteen strands, mostly in yarns that grab as they go past. I signed up for this–and it helps that the new green goes so much better than the one I just, just couldn’t and that caused all that waiting for the new.