I didn’t study much my senior year in college. Instead, I spent a solid chunk of my time painting abstracts with tiny brushes on five inch squares of canvas. I see painting now as a form of meditation – clearing my thoughts to focus on swirls of complementary color. But back then, as my rickety six inch greeting card easel toppled face down – wet paint meeting marble-slab-desk over and over – it may have been closer to non-threatening mania. At some point in between brush strokes and handfuls of sour patch kids, I opened an excel spreadsheet, and mapped out an abstract color work pattern. I thought about knitting a t-shirt, or a blanket, or a pillow like the painted ones my parents kept in their foyer, and then I did nothing.

Until last week. When I placed an irresponsibly large order of multi-colored pima cotton on Knit Picks.

It’s eye-searing. And I’m in love.

Update 9/23/23: Pattern available on Ravelry!

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