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The designing of the Love Hearts afghan was more complicated than it looks. When you look directly at the afghan you see simple stripes. When you look from an angle the design is revealed. It shows a circle, in the shape of the sweet, with a heart inside it. The lettering is contained within the heart. All of this has to been shown using stripes in just two colours.

Anyone brought up in UK will be familiar with Love Hearts® sweets though they may be less well-known in other parts of the world. They have been made in UK since 1933. We have used some of the traditional messages, some modern equivalents and some of our own.

Love Hearts® are crumbly fizzy sweets. They come in six pastel colours. The hearts and lettering are always in the same pinkish-red. It is probably not possible to match the sweet colours exactly but baby shades give the right impression.

Love Hearts® and the Love Hearts icon are the registered trademark of Swizzels Matlow Limited and are used with their permission.

NON-MATHEMATICAL AFGHANS

Illusion knitting took us along paths that did not really use much maths, other than a bit of logical thinking and planning. Lettering is fun. It has to be bigger than when working in other techniques, for the illusion to work.