My own warp from hell!

This was my "warp from hell" - I can't believe how much went wrong while making this.   First, I got through about 3/4 of the warping (504 ends) when I realized that I'd made a mistake and dropped about 8 threads from the pattern way back at the beginning.   Well, there was no way to just added heddles and fix that, so I pulled it out and started over almost.   This was my first warp on my new-to-me countermarch loom, and so if you saw my posts about that you know I had a lot of trouble setting up the loom for the first time.  (Varpapuu loom)

Well, I finally got the loom warped and started weaving.   First I wove a little sample to make sure the threading was right.   I left some spacers in for the fringe and started weaving.   Then I realized much too late that I'd made a mistake too far back to re-weave it, but no matter.   The warp was plenty long so I ended that section and started over with a new piece.   Ops, another mistake realized too late, so I ended that, added spacers and started over AGAIN!    And as if that wasn't enough it happened once more!  Finally, I was able to do the piece I wanted - a 48" table runner.   When that was done I just wove off the rest of the warp with the middle part of the design and in a couple of colors.   I'll use that for some sewing project later.   Good thing I had a 5 yard warp to start with.   I lost a lot in just fringes.

So, I twisted the fringes and washed all the pieces.   Then while ironing, I discovered a very subtle threading error!   It's so subtle, that I didn't see ti while weaving, I didn't see it while twisting the fringe, I didn't see it until after the piece was washed.   I ironed it hard and now the mistake is again difficult to see!   But, I know it's there which is maddening.

I do like the pattern, however, and may actually do this again.   But next time I will remove that first sample from the loom and take a REALLY good look at it before continuing, because that threading mistake could only be seen from the underside.

This really was a Hell-o-weave!