I am a relatively mobile person, with a business that is equally portable, so being asked to attend a “craft night” I knew what I would bring (the panel squares for my next bag that I had diligently cut at the previous market). I laid them on the floor, sorted them into a red-neutral-blue-neutral repeating pattern, and stacked them all up in their rows. In my previous checkerboard bag months ago, I’d gotten the math wrong, but this time, I would do no such thing. I got started and momentum carried me the rest of the way. The whole pattern allowed for the diagonals to be either red or blue, and it was an excellent effect.