Towel One

This is the end of towel number 1.  All that there is left to do is a little bit of plain weave and then start the next one.

I was having a terrible time with the selvedges until I brought out the alligator clips and weights.  Once they were in place not a single broken thread.




I have been daydreaming about what I could do with this pattern, and I have come up with a couple of ideas.  I could weave them just as I did this one, all one color, Twill center and pattern on each end.  I could also use white on the twill parts and a color on the pattern.  I could take out the center patterns and have a pattern in each corner of napkins, it goes on and on,  it is some place to start though.

Their are two threadings to these pattern motifs and I am not sure I like how I placed them.  The way they are right now are threading 1, threading 2, threading 1, threading 2.  Maybe I should have done it differently like P1, P2, P2, P1, or something similar.  I will continue  weaving the towels threaded as they are right now, but I will make some of the above color changes before I change the threading. I plan to do 6 towels like this, in navy, 6 towels using white as the twill weft and navy in the pattern.  I have a lovely camel colored thread that would really look nice, I may try some of that.  I also have a ton of cotton flake in all sorts of colors, I may see if that works up  clear enough to show the pattern. Then I will do some of those same variations, but this time making napkins. ( I need some new ones!)

Once I have done all that I think I will know if I want to make any changes to the threading. I will keep the blogs up to date with my slow progress. I never know how much weaving time I am going to have in any given week, some weeks are better than others, life does happen!

Until next time, Happy Weaving, Tina









I have started my March socks, and I posted about them on my Farmstead Studio blog.