Learning the hard way

The reason I decided that it would be a good idea to rehab fifty-five crochet remnants at the same time has escaped me, but as I work to keep track of the many pieces in the process of transformation, I comfort myself with the thought that learning the hard way is better than not learning at all.

I may or may not be correct on that count, but I refuse to entertain the possibility that this detour does not have some kind of value, and I am open to the idea (self-serving as it is) that I don’t need to know what the value is — that I will somehow reap its benefits whether or not I ever learn what they are.

With that in mind, I finished weaving in the ends of the squares that I worked on while I was at the theater this weekend, took this photo:

My rehab effort with all of the ends woven in and ready for more work
My rehab effort with all of the ends woven in and ready for more work

and then got back to work on rehabbing the remnants still in need of work.

There were a lot of squares to choose from, but I settled on these six, mostly because of their proximity to each other, as well as the fact that I was using the same yarn around the final round as I had in the second. This meant there were no color decisions to be made. All I had to do was crochet, and crochet I did:

Six more fully rehabbed crochet remnants
Six more fully rehabbed crochet remnants

While I had hoped to get more squares done, I was happy to with the six I managed to crochet, and so that I would have some perspective, I took this group photo:

An overview of my progress as I learn the hard way that fifty-five remnants can be hard to organize
An overview of my progress as I learn the hard way that fifty-five remnants can be hard to organize

I am looking forward to finishing the rehab of these remnants, because keeping track of them all is a bit like herding cats, but will continue moving forward, one stitch at a time.

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