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.

Tuesday update.

Once again it is Tuesday! A bunch of us are here at the center working on various projects.

Last week I cleaned, lubricated and tightened up my empty loom, so that this week it would be ready to roll.

Carol had found a warp she had wound who knows how long ago, we found it as we were organizing a bit. She thrust it at me and said "Here, this is your next project." It is for hand towels, with a really sweet rosepath design on one end.

Here it is in the raddle, getting ready to start winding on. Normally I go thru the reed, then heddles and then wind on, but with no room to maneuver in back, I chose to wind on and then thread from the front.

Wally, of course was his usual helpful self. Once I got it wound on I realized that I would need to rearrange the heddles a little on the harnesses, and since there wasn't time to complete that today, I will leave that for next week.

I am always delighted to see what the different wefts do to this rug warp! Here Alan has taken a weft heavy in rust and used it in this blue and brown warp. Beautiful!

Bonnie is making great progress on her lace hand towels.

Here is part of our last carpet warp order. There are 2 more boxes under these! We use it a lot around here. Not only for rugs, but also for place mats and mug rugs too.

I didn't want you to think that Wally sleeps the whole time we are here. Here he is trying to get to me. I had gone away from my loom to help someone else. Imagine that! How dare I! What you can't really see is that he is "sitting" in a box, a broken box now!

We miss those that couldn't make it today, but we keep plugging away trying to empty our looms as fast as our 4 hours here a week will let us, dreaming all the time of the next project we will undertake on that loom or maybe the looms we have at home. We all do have at least 1 loom at home, usually more than that. It is a sickness you know.

Happy Weaving, Tina