Throw Irritated

I wanted to knit Ryan an afghan. They are daunting, and I am an experienced enough knitter to know that it needs to be small, simple enough not to drive me crazy, and complicated enough not to drive me crazy. I chose the Knit Picks Sweet Dreams Throw. It's just 5 strips sewn together in a bulky yarn and has enough color changes to keep it interesting, and it's not even technically an afghan.

I have long ago finished all the strips. In fact, in the time since I finished those strips my baby has been born, learned to sit up, crawl and is beginning to walk...

I, like most or at least many of the knitters I know, hate weaving in ends. Instead of weaving in the ends as I went along, of course I waited until the end. The other thing keeping me from finishing this project is something that has been nagging at me since I started: What color am I supposed to use to sew these strips togther? There are 3 different colors in each strip. If I use only 1 color to sew them all together, won't the color show occasionally on the blocks that don't include that color? I asked the amazing knitters of Ravelry and the consensus seemed to be that if I properly mattress stitch them together, then the color won't matter because the seam will be invisible. 

It's not.

 I should have known better than to try to knit an afghan. I'm the type of knitter that can only have a few UFOs at any given time. I NEED to finish this blanket, but I can't come to terms with the fact that I will need to change colors while sewing this frick-a-frackin' thing together. Ryan says it doesn't matter and to just sew it all up with one color. He says he can barely tell, and that's what he would do. Well, it's NOT what I would do. I have 3 options here: 1) Seam it with one color and darn it if it shows; Maybe I can say that's part of the design... 2) Hide it somewhere I can forget about it forever and if Ryan ever brings it up again pretend it never existed, or 3) Switch color in the appropriate places, which isn't every square, but does happen several times throughout each strip. 

On top of all this I have fiber coming from two fiber clubs, newly finished handspun that I'm *dying* to knit with, 2 other projects I desperately want to cast on AND the Spring semester is starting and I already have 2 books to read by Monday.

 Arg.