I hope you can see from the picture how close I was to finishing. A knitting project takes effort to get started and includes, for me, some tedious stages. Since my yarn is not exactly the same as the pattern and I may knit more tightly or loosely than the pattern designer, a gauge swatch must be done.
Sometimes more than one.
![Dena Lefkowitz of Achievement by Design.](https://images.law.com/contrib/content/uploads/sites/402/2021/01/Dena-Lefkowitz-Vert-202101051229.jpg)