Again...you are too wise in all this I think CPTSD is trying to unravel a pot of spaghetti . You find one end and that brings with it two more strands, and you can't remove the strand you want until you manipulate the other strands. Which strand is the beginning? How do you know which one to get first? They all look the same at first glance, but then you notice some are longer than the others, there are differences.
While at the storage building I noticed a pot holder kit in the trash. I picked it up and remembered having one as a child but never finishing one because no one would shoe me how to connect the finished ends. So I brought it home and was going to donate somewhere, it still had the frame and some of the material used to make the pot holder.
So last night, this seems funny now, I saw the box and opened it up. I started weaving the pot holder and got to that point where the ends needed to be tied together some how. There were no instructions on the box. So I got some para cord and laced it through the loops, snuggly and finished my first pot holder. I was actually excited about it. I told a friend about it and she said I connected those ends wrong but if it worked it was cool. She said she would show me how to do it correctly some time. Funny how something so simple can have such an impact.