For the last couple of months I have been calculating, knitting, washing, steaming, re-knitting, changing yarn, switching from my pretty wood needles to my workhorse Boye metallic needles ( tons of respect
for those needles), questioning my: huge purls compared to my petite knits, English or Continental style and then occasionally a well earned 5" x 5" square.

The real reward in all this was before my first class. I realized that I needed a couple of squares to demonstrate gauge and to teach seaming garter stitch together. I'll tell you what, both of those suckers
came out the perfect 5" x 5" Squares the first attempt! Justice.