So, if you’re thinking about the shape of Half Moon Bay, our local coastline, and you take a classic feather and fan and stretch it out a bit and then run an outward-purl row immediately after the yarn overs so it looks like the crests of incoming waves and the closer to shore you take it the closer together those two rows come to the next set of two, while dropping one repeat to the right every eighteen rows, turning those into plain stitches (which I just did again, hidden under that needle)…

…and you graph out a starfish in purl stitches…

…and it comes out looking more like a lobster but what the heck…

…Then it turns out that, as usual for me, the more I get done the faster it goes because it’s actually starting to BE something.

The mill-end yarn (50/50 cash/cot) is not pre-washed. It’s going to bloom and look a lot softer and denser.

You might even be able to see that there’s a starfish down there near the corner.

There was going to be a Barbara Walker’s turtle, too, but it’s just too many rows to scale right in there.

There will probably be a redwood above. I’ve debated an apricot tree (they have one of mine) and even adding apricot colored apricots but you know baby fingers would put a lot of effort into trying to pull them off. So maybe. I have that color, I could. Or all just cream like it is. Got awhile before I have to decide.