Cat Mad Crochet

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I do a lot of projects with far too many ends. Ends are, after all, the means to greatness, but they are also the means to my destruction when there are 2000 or more of them, and I have left them all for the end, which is sadly becoming my thing. To this end, I am thinking of making one day out of my week the official “End Weaving Day!”

On this day, I would gather all of my present projects, a selection of needles, and my best tiny scissors and set about weaving as many ends as I could before the day is done. I might choose to work on one project or flit back and forth between projects or even weave a set number of ends from each project. 

Perhaps some projects, I’m looking at those projects done in lace weight yarn or black yarn, would be designated as daytime projects, so I could sit by my favorite window and quietly weave ends while I contemplate my industriousness. Other projects, those with big, bulky fingering weight yarn and colors other than black hole dark, could be evening projects, so they could be worked as I watched something ridiculous on television and contemplated the moon. 

Either way, I could end my projects off with most, if not all but one, of the ends already happily secured and woven away. I would have the joy of finishing and actually being finished instead of being finished with the fun crochet part and still having the drudgery of hours upon hours of end weaving still to go, as I do now. I always mean to weave some ends, but then the crochet is so much fun and calming and joyful that I never actually make myself stop and weave those ends. I have to make little deals with myself: If I weave one end, I can work a whole row of crochet! Won’t that be nice? Almost makes weaving the end weaving worth it, doesn’t it? 

Of course, there would be that one day during which I would not get the joy of crocheting at all, which is really what I’m in it for, but weaving the ends is also part of the project, and I will have to do it at some point since I cannot afford an end weaver. Maybe I really should make one day of the week the official day of weaving ends.

I think I’ll start it tomorrow.