Yarnification

Hoo boy, am I ever hating the ends on this throw rug. I had this idea they’d hide better in the seams since it’s done with two strands of yarn, one neutral and one a color that changes every fourteen rows. Next time I say a thing like that, somebody please smack me upside the head, ok?

For one thing, it’s a rug. There’s a back and a front. Nobody will see if the ends don’t hide perfectly because there are multiple colors in each block! For another thing, it turns out they’re hiding nicely along the rows, so I could’ve done this as I went along and saved myself a lot of hassle instead of waiting until I had the strips sewn together.

I always resist doing the ends until the very end of a project, though, and I always regret it when I’m doing them all at once. Maybe someday I’ll learn.

In other news, I’ve been doing some practice squares in thread and I think I’m good enough at it to start on that beaded shawl. The first two squares I did my tension was all over the place and I kept losing stitches at the end of a the row because it was so teeny-tiny, but I think I’ve got that all worked out now.