Overshot - Hemstitching Night-mare!!!!

Why is it that when you are excited to get your project off the loom, that the hemstitching doesn't go according to plan.

Twisting the fringe is going better. I think the purple/red-purple runner will need some colored threads added to the fringe. The change from the body of the runner to the white fringe area is just to abrupt. The brown runner,on the other hand, is 'good to go'.