This was knitted from the point at the bottom up.  The flowers and leaves were knitted in as the work progressed.  This is also made from an Uruguayan hand spun/hand dyed yarn.  The back ground color is Rhodesian Ridgeback Red, which matches my dogs.  This color came out of a joke email conversation, as in, I was looking for a color that wouldn't show the dog hair.  This is what came out.  It pretty closely matches the dogs.