Top Photos: 1st Project, used 48 sts./square; for the decrease - k2tog then ssk; slip 1st st knitwise and ktbl on the last st.

Bottom Photos: 2nd Project, used 60 sts./square. Since it’s for a Koigu fanatic, 45 of 224 squares are KPPPM.

This makes me happy - I’m not great with colors so it’s fun to just put whatever colors I want next to each other.

I’m pretty dense, it took me a couple times to understand where the squares went (after the four in the pattern), so I doctored the pattern photo. This is what works for me.