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So, it is laundry day, but I don't have a lot else planned and was going to spend some time working on a knitting project - I'm making a blanket for my dad to match a chair he made. Mostly, I work on my knitting in my bedroom, but today it's nice out, so I thought I might knit on the back porch for a while. So I put my knitting in my laundry basket to take downstairs. Since I'm about 3/4 done with my current ball of yarn, I also stuck the next ball in the basket.

And then I promptly forgot that I'd stuck the ball of yarn in there. I took my knitting out, dumped the rest of the basket in the washing machine, and turned it on. It took about 10 minutes for me to realize that I was missing the next ball of yarn, by which time it had pretty thoroughly felted. My one consolation is that I realized before yarn had managed to completely knot itself around all of the rest of my clothes.

This is not the end of the world - the blanket is all one color, so I have more yarn for working today, and I can easily order a replacement ball - but it is intensely aggravating.