"If you can read you can knit."

This is what my grandmother told me repeatedly when I was learning to knit. (Coincidentally she said the same thing about cooking. Cooking didn't seem to take on me.)

So it was with horror that I started a cute little fancy free project today and found myself awash in drawings of triangles with squares and square roots and stitches galore. I've also listened to knitting master Eunny extol the triumph of perfectly mathematically figured stripes.

If I had known there was math involved, I might not have signed up for this.