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-
Love Hearts® are crumbly fizzy sweets. They come in six pastel colours. The hearts
and lettering are always in the same pinkish-
Love Hearts® and the Love Hearts icon are the registered trademark of Swizzels Matlow Limited and are used with their permission.
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.