This is awesome. The "knitting pattern" reference doesn't work for me because I struggle so much with knitting that I just don't bother (why work on something for 5 years and have it be all sized wrong, when you can sew something with knitted fabric and have someone wear it the next day?) but the process you went through to figure out the pattern is mind boggling for me at this point in my quilting career. I love the Star Trek reference though - got that one right away.
