Do not chase

A 1-bit image, built square by square in thread

Cream filet crochet panel with a scalloped border on a black surface: a squirrel with a curling tail holding a slice of pizza, made of filled and open mesh squares

The chart

68 squares across, 59 down. Each square is either filled or left open. I worked it row by row, back and forth, marking off each row as I finished it.

Black and white pixel chart of the squirrel with its pizza on a 68 by 59 grid, with arrows showing each row's direction and green lines marking finished rows
Working chart
Close-up of the panel's edge on brick: filled mesh squares of the design, a straight inner border and the scalloped fan edging
Close-up of the open mesh and filled squares of the design, with the scalloped top border, over brick