I’m not superstitious, but when two bad things have happened, I wait for the third, my extremely superstitious father’s face looming in my imagination, like “You just wait.”

This pattern isn’t about bringing on bad things (the horror!), but there is a rhythm to it that feels like a ward, keeping bad things away. “One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three.”

That rhythm is a balm, a waltz that says no matter what, we’ll get through it.

The pattern is written like a stitch dictionary entry, so make your project any size you’d like, using yarn of any weight. I have provided a video tutorial on how to figure out how many foundation chains to start with, depending on your gauge and the finished size of the project you want to make.