Hi @Phoenix_Rising ......

It takes beginning a single row of @CheerBear's rug to be able to call it started ..... that row actually being a ring ..... a ring of stitches from the centre loop.

The ring of stitches is big enough to be a tiny turtle rug ..... or a tiny octopus ..... or mermaid .... or anything tiny in fact .... to from its very inception the rug is. It's in existence and complete, if that is the size you want it to be ..... but it still has all the potential to be something much bigger and more intricate, and is at once incomplete from that perspective.

By the same measure .... the rug can possibly be worked on, supplies of wool and interest being essential for this .... until it is extremely large and vying for space in the Guinness Book of Records.

That was how I settled on the analogy of the rug ..... but I understand if this analogy doesn't fit, or suit someone else's thoughts about it.