I watched the video and decided to try this as my first Graph IT project. Learned very quickly that I should have tried a smaller project first. If making a blanket or throw, make sure you are working on a flat surface large enough to handle it. Also I cannot stress enough that you DO NOT complete a side before doing the reverse. If you make a mistake such as missing pulling a loop or pulled one too many from the skein, you won’t find it until you do the reverse side. I had looped about 24 rows and after watching someone else’s video, decided to bring the reverse side up to where I was. Found out back on line 11, I had missed picking up a loop so I ended up tearing out 13 rows of work. So very frustrating. After that, I would loop several rows on the first side and then bring up the reverse side. Kept the frustration level down. I also started using a crochet hook which made things go faster than fumbling with my fingers. Watch when pulling you loop that you don’t twist it. Using the crochet hook helped me to see that too. After looping several rows, another helpful thing I did was I took the time and made a written pattern counting out the graph, such as 3 white, 6 black, 9 white and so on. Went much faster as I was not able to enlarge the pattern when I printed it to follow. When I counted the row in the direction per the instructions, I wrote it down to read like a book from left to right. Something else I did not do per the instructions was when joining skeins, I did not cut the threads that form the loops. You can gently pull out adjoining loops to be able to have the tails, this does not break the stitching holding the loops together. Also after tying the tails, I used a needle and thread to assure myself that the loops would not pull out. Over all, I am very happy I tried this and learned from my mistakes. I will be doing another one in another pattern as well as a couple of scarfs.