Oopsie!

 

This warp is fairly complex and I wasn't feeling 'well' while I set up the loom and in spite of my being so very careful, I realized that I had made a threading error.  

Sigh.

The mistake wasn't all that obvious until I changed wefts and the contrast became enough that I was able to spot the issue, so when I finished the towel I was working on, I wove a much longer 'waste' area at the end of the one towel.  I had 'marked' the threading error with a coloured thread at the beginning so that it would be easier to find the errant threads to cut them, pull them out of the web, then re-thread them properly.

The sequence was supposed to be shaft 2-7, when I had done 7-2.  It didn't look horribly wrong, but once seen cannot be unseen, so I fixed it the most 'efficient' and least irritating way I could think of.

Once the 6 ends were corrected, I sleyed the reed, then pinned them to the web, adjusted the dobby chain to begin at the beginning again, and carried on with the next towel.

Yes, I 'wasted' a bit of warp, but by doing so, I 'saved' a lot more of my time - time which is precious to me.

Once they come off the loom I will use the large green weft area as a 'cut' line (normally all I do is 2 picks), and then when I serge them, I will remove the green weft part and toss it away.

We can choose what we 'waste'.  By 'wasting' a bit of 'free' (from a friend's weaving stash) I saved myself at least 15 or 20 minutes, and did not have to cut/re-tie the entire warp.  

It doesn't always turn out this way, but today it did, and I'm grateful.

Edited to add a close up photo of the web because someone wondered where the 'missing' threads went.  

The original warp threads are still there.  I cut them out in the green weft area, then, once they there threaded *properly* and sleyed, they were pinned to the web.  The 'hole' is only in the 'waste' area of green weft.