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Knitting content ahead.

Thing is, my bathroom mat, the thing I step on when I get out of the shower, it's ick. It had a rubber-backing to start with but that's kind of died in the approximately ten years that I've owned the thing. If it had died neatly, that would be one thing but it sheds tiny little squares of dead backing every time I wash it. It's also stained from one too many muddy boots and it won't wash clean anymore. It also has never fit the floor in my admittedly teensy bathroom.

I've had it with my bathroom mat. I need a new one. I do not like the options available to me at Wal-Mart and I need dipshit knitting because the HoHI are too difficult to schlep to outings. Finally, I have the bizarre urge to decorate my house in cotton handknits. It's inexcusable, I know, but what can you do?

I like garter stitch. It's crunchy and feels good underfoot --or *would* if it were not allowed to spread out when being stepped on like garter stitch invariably does. You'd think that this would be an insurmountable difficulty, and, sooth, I thought that too for a while. However, it is NOT an insurmountable difficulty. I have a cunning plan for surmounting the spreading issue. My cunning plan is going to revolutionize hand-knit bathmat technology and I'm particularly proud of it because it isn't a cunning plan I got from the internets or from someone else's book o' nifty knitting ideas. It is my VERY OWN cunning plan of cunningness and it is going to r0xx0r.

So am I going to tell you my cunning plan? Not yet.