More towels and more towels

After Christmas I had a few days at home to work on my weaving, so I finished the teal/turquoise swiss twill warp. Mimi decided she needed more attention so she snuck in and took a seat.



Here's the big pile just off the loom. I've wet finished now, but need to press and hem them still.



And finally, I got a new warp on the loom. This is a mystery cotton warp that's not particularly strong. Fortunately, it wound on like a dream, but now that I'm weaving, I'm getting a lot of broken ends on my selvedges. I have it threaded in a crackle pattern and love it! I didn't get a picture of any of the weaving though, so here's just a picture of the warp, ready to go on.



Oh, also, I got an inkle loom for Christmas and have made several bands out of carpet warp. It's so much fun! They make awesome hair bands and cat toys.

At the loom again

I spent the weekend winding a warp and dressing the loom for some 8/2 cotton towels. I'm making these from some mill ends I got from WEBS. The warp is a dark turquoise/almost teal color that's darker than it appears in these pics. I have enough warp for 6 or 7 towels, depending on how much I sample, so I can use several different color and treadling combinations.

Here's the loom:


And here's a closeup. Note the long warp floats in part of it--I know I know, not good :) I was just messing around with my treadlings and that one didn't work out. Also, it's crazy how two yarns labeled 8/2 can have such varying grists. The tan right before the blue is so much thinner than the blue and the turquoise both.

Can't see the forest for the trees...

Tree towels! I loved doing these. I may just have to put another warp on for some more. The draft came from A Weaver's Book of 8 Shaft Patterns. There's a whole section on little figures that can be made on a rosepath threading, and they turn out wonderfully on the edges of these towels.

Pardon the dark photo. It's been dark all day here and I had a hard time getting any shot that wasn't washed out by flash. The towels are ivory with a dark green border.