In the aftermath of yesterday’s epiphany with regard to my Big Rug project, I found that I had a lot of straightening up to do.
First, there was all of the yarn I had gotten out in order to make an African Flower Hexagon out of the Lamb’s Pride bulky weight wool. While I needed five to make the motif itself, I had at least a dozen colors scattered about in order to choose the five that I used, and they needed to be sorted out and put away.
Then, there was the matter of the stash of Red Heart Super Saver yarn that I am using for the Mamy Bag. I am down to making the last 7 motifs, and in order to get a sense of what colors to use where, I have all of them out where I can see them and make decisions.
Even then, the resulting motif does not always work out as I envisioned, and I have to start over or replace a round or two. That project, and the attendant yarns needed to be put into a more organized pile so that it would out from underfoot, but visible so that I could not entirely ignore it.
Once I was done with the straightening and sorting, I didn’t have that much time to work before it was time to leave the house and run the errands that had piled up over the last two days.
So that I could feel I had accomplished something, I got out this ball of yarn that I had made from a former favorite pair of jeans:

Put it in a mesh laundry bag:

and washed it:

I then put it in the dryer:

and spent half of my son’s trumpet lesson detangling it and winding it back into a ball.
Then, because I had not brought a hook large enough to accommodate my upcyled, denim yarn, I got out my ever faithful Clover chibi and began weaving in the ends of this cat runner to-be:

I only got a few ends woven in before it was time to leave the lesson, and when we got home it was time to make dinner.
Tomorrow, I plan to set aside all of these partially finished projects, and see if I can find one that I can get done before sunset, and then use that energy to finish all of the things in front of me.
Weaving in the ends after putting the project together would be a deal breaker for me. I crochet them in as I finish off a square. The one long one I leave at the end of making a square sews the square to another one.
I tend to weave them in as I go along. Early in my crochet career, I wouldn’t weave any of them in, and I would then pull them to the back when I was finished so that a project would at least look like it was done.
Because I like to make so many projects with so many ends to weave in, I have tried to make my peace with them. The Clover needles have also been a tremendous tool. They have made a world of difference.