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Bathmat VII

So, I'm making another bathmat. My seventh, and they've all been for us! I'm using left over handspun and the same design as I used for our current toilet mat, made four years ago. That one is a touch too small, partly because I may have felted it when washing cat pee out of it. So this time I cast on 141 stitches, rather than the 121 stitches I used last time. I'm a bit paranoid that it will be too big for the space I'm making it for, but if it is I can always felt it down a little. I'm sure, sooner or later, Tarragon will cause it to need a hot wash anyway. Also, and randomly, when I was checking out the space I realised our toilet is not centrally located in the space. I wonder if this is normal? If I was designing a bathroom, I'd put the toilet centrally in the room. But then I like things to be symmetrical. And maybe I've been spending too much time thinking about the smallest room in the house...
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