The Dragon's Lair

I've been working on warping a new project (which I shall post about soon) and have reached the point of threading. I was able to sneak in a couple inches yesterday before Real Life called me away from the loom. I come back to it this morning and am making my way steadily through inch three when a thought suddenly smacks me in the face...

That isn't shaft one, it's shaft four!!! Oh no!

I look back over yesterday's work, and determine that yes - most of it is threaded backwards. Two thirds of the 70-something ends I'd threaded needed re-threaded. I should have simply been thankful that I noticed at 70-something instead of 300-something, but thankfulness was not high on my list of feelings at the moment. I huffed away from the loom, vented my frustration in a quick e-mail to PinkD, gave the loom a few scowls (yes, I know it's really my fault, but it's much more comfortable to direct my irritation at an inanimate object than at myself) , and then read a few interesting blogs until I stopped giving my loom dirty looks. After that I went back to start the process of un-knotting my bundles and re-threading, but got interrupted before finishing.

Fast forward to now...
I get back to the loom and continue the re-threading process. I have this niggling feeling that I should re-check (yet again) that first inch that didn't need re-threaded.
It's backwards too!!

Now how in the world did I deem that one fine and the ones right next to it backwards??? I have no idea.
This doesn't bode well for the remaining 400+ ends, if it takes this many tries just to get the first 70 right!

At this point, I think laughing at myself is probably the only thing to do. And blog about it so you can laugh with me ;-)