I started this project and had to put it aside many more times that I have ever done with a project. It was not a smooth knitting project because of the constant counting and rearranging of the stitches. The tension was hard to control at the beginning, trying to get these 23 stitches in each colour. By the end it was much easier, but I still had to rearrange colours often to accomodate the number of stitches. Still the outcome is gorgeous.