A knitting confession

I have a knitting confession to divulge.

I know there aren't hard and fast rules about this sort of thing, but I expect I'm violating the natural order of how projects should be knitted. It isn't something I do with everything I knit. I can't recall it ever causing problems for me, but I may just be biding my time until the day when it catches up with me and has me weeping with regret at my foolishness.

The reason I bring it up is because I've done it again while working on the Ruggles Reversible Scarf. I was tempted to do it shortly after I joined the second ball of yarn to the project, but I was able to muster some self-restraint. Last night I could wait no longer and went ahead and did something that would horrify knitting teachers.

I sewed in all the ends I had on a work in progress.

Granted, it was just three ends. I was tired of the lengthy dangler from my long tail cast on getting in the way. The two where I joined skeins were less irritating, although one was uncomfortably short because I was convinced I could get one more row out of the skein. (Since I did, I guess I was right...but not by much.) It was the reason I held off as long as I did. I figured I ought not to weave it in too early in case I needed to frog in that area. I'm enough past it now that I deemed it worthy of weaving in.

I don't like having a lot of ends to weave in at the end of a project. I probably developed a greater distaste from having eleven scarves worth of them to deal with at once as the holiday approached last year. Weaving in along the way reduces the amount of time spent on this less favorite yet essential task while I'm flush with satisfaction at a job (hopefully) well done. Is that so wrong?