Colorless green dreams sleep furiously variant

The column guides here have been making me think of syntax trees. I decided to see what would happen if I turned a syntax tree into a stitch map. Not yet swatched!

This version eliminates the alternating rows of plain stockinette for a lacier effect and something closer to the proportions of the original syntax tree.

(Colorless green dreams sleep furiously is a classic example sentence used in linguistics to show the difference between a syntactically correct sentence and one which makes sense semantically. This stitch pattern is based on its tree.)

-Naomi Parkhurst (gannet on Ravelry)

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Shown with a cast-on count of 12 stitches.  

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1 2 3 4 5 Horizontal repeats

1 2 3 4 5 Vertical repeats

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• Round 1: *Yo, yo, k1, yo, k2, k2tog, k1, repeat from * (multiple of 8 sts).
• Round 2: *K1, yo, k3, ssk, k2tog, repeat from * (multiple of 7 sts).
• Round 3: *K5, k2tog, repeat from * (multiple of 6 sts).
• Round 4: *K2, k2tog, k2, repeat from * (multiple of 5 sts).
• Round 5: *Ssk, k2tog, yo, yo, k1, yo, repeat from * (multiple of 6 sts).
• Round 6: *K2tog, k1, yo, k3, repeat from *.
• Round 7: Knit.