This is a very personal piece.  I started knitting it when my first husband was dying of lung cancer.  It just came off my needles.  There are 2 things about this piece that are not sad.  1.  It made my friends laugh because the pattern for it was a squiggle of a river on graph paper, that was the only pattern.  2.  After completing the basket weave border, I haven't done basket weave since.  Rounding the corners was so traumatic, I now have an aversion to basket weave.  I hope I get over it.  I like the way the basket weave sits.