Hi! Found this through Ravelry and I love it! I'm having a problem though at the beginning. I'm pretty sure I'm just being stupid but where it says under Center Panel to "Repeat the four previous rows until 24 sts are on needles," I get lost. I always come up with an odd number of stitches. Because I CO 7 sts, anytime I M1 twice in a row, it continues the odd number sequence. Where am I messing up?

Thanks for this great pattern!