Any crocheter/knitter reading this post will be able to understand my pain when I say “ends”. Well I don’t normally just says “ends” it’s preceded by an adjective but for now let’s just say that it’s those “darn ends!” I ALWAYS start off with good intentions. I ALWAYS tell myself that I’m going to deal with the ends as I go along. I ALWAYS end up leaving them until the end! The problem with this approach is that it often delays the blanket being finished. Take my daughter’s blankets for example – I made 3 before she was born however I only completed 1 before she was born. She’s now 6 weeks old…eeek!
So I decided that today had to be the day…the day I tackled those “darn ends!” One blanket was a white waffle blanket for her carseat and the other was a ‘scrap’ cot-sized blanket. I’d surprisingly been good and actually dealt with some of the ends in the cot blanket as I went along, only some though as I gave up on my good intentions about 1/3 of the way through! In the end, there weren’t that as many ends to deal with as I’d thought and I got into the rhythm of it so much so that I even tackled the ends on my elder daughter’s doll’s blanket…go me! 
However, I still haven’t learnt my lesson; my latest ‘scrap’ blanket (the v-stitch top one below) the has more ends to sew in than I’d care to mention! Wish me luck!
Lillibella Makes 
I understand the pain of dealing with ends! I had the best of intention when I started my crochet blanket of dealing with them as I went along but that didn’t last long. I finished making the blanket and then had an entire evening of searching for ends to tidy up because they were all over the place!
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Yes that’s my life too! I should have started doing it with my v-stitch blanket but ‘forgot’ and so now I’ll have a similar evening! At least this one is a gift so has a deadline! x
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You could always add to the ends and call them “tassels” or “fringe”. I know I have done that a time or two.
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Unfortunately these ends were in the middle of the squares and at the edges of the border otherwise I definitely would have done 😉 x
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My graphgan has loads of ends to weave in and I have only completed 2 squares of about 13 and I have around 80+ ends already. 😂😂😂
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Is that your Gilmore girls one? I’d like to try some of the repeat crafter me Christmas ones but the ends do put me off! x
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Yes it’s the Gilmore Girls one. I love that show and have watched it 3 times last year. 😂
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I confess…I’ve never seen it! 😉
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Oh you have to watch it. It’s light hearted and draws you in x
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I’ll have to investigate; )
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Yes i know what your going through. The ends are too much! I do the ends as i go. So there no ends to be done when the projects finished.
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That’s the sensible approach…I’ll learn one day 😉 x
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I’m weird, but I don’t really mind dealing with the ends as long as they aren’t all along one edge (like your v-stitch blanket will have)… I love that feeling of seeing them disappear and making progress. Sometimes I do deal with them as I go and I do try to crochet them in where possible, or do a join that doesn’t produce ends, but weaving in ends never holds me up when finishing a project… unlike sewing parts together, which I hate!
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It’s definitely psychological…I have to be in the right mood lol. I don’t like sewing parts together either but more motivated to do that so I can see final make 😉 x
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