The un-delight of un-weaving

Last night I had a particularly fleet and happy and trouble-free session weaving on the Perugia towels (two down, two to go!)...

...Until...

...

...

...until I noticed that I had woven two inches in blue that ought to have been one inch. 

Sigh.

I've always hated un-weaving...not only is it laborious and fiddly; not only does it degrade the already-woven-on warp threads for that section; but it is also an example of un-making, something that in general gives me the creeps.  As I am lifted up by making, so am I let down by un-making.

I'd never had to unweave on the AVL loom before.  There's a nice cord to yank on to make the dobby go in reverse, which was good, but I'm also weaving a warp with floating selvedges, which made for unwieldy and gingerly efforts to not abrade the selvedge threads while disentangling.

32 picks to unweave.  ::shudder::

That said, as soon as it was done, I wove it right back with the correct undyed thread, and it didn't look too bad at all.  And then I continued merrily and finally finished the towel.  Now it's onto the next one. 

After the un-weaving, it was pure joy to weave forward again.  All is well.