These are two of the squares from clue 1 in Candy, not very true to the actual colour. They look a bit lurid here but candy is nowhere near as bright as this! I found these foam mats at Aldi. I actually bought them to go on the floor of my studio but in the meantime have used them to do bocking. I have drawn 20 cm squares in waterproof marker pen on them so that I can pin up to four at one time.
I have also completed the first 3 squares of the second clue in colour A (Raspberry), the next three squares will be in B (deceptively named Rosy, which is actually an old lilac shade). This is a Nordic Star; unusually, the charted pattern dictates that the design emerges from the wrong side row. I have never come across this before.
The square for this clue has a garter stitch border all round in contrast with the clue 1 square, which only has a garter stitch border top and bottom. I can see myself re-knitting clue 1 all over again to match the second clue!
There have been quite a few problems with gauge but clue 2 seemed to knit up almost exactly to the right size on 4 mm needles. I can barely understand this as the first square, even when knitted on 4 mm pins, seemed still to be short ( even though there are the same number of rows in both). There has been a huge amount of discussion about this on the Ravelry thread, which you can see if you sign up to Ravelry and visit the Rowan Forum for this knit-along.
So far this hasn't been too difficult but I think each new clue will grow in complexity and throw in a few little twists to keep things interesting.
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