{"id":4471,"date":"2013-03-28T08:16:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T13:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2013-03-28T08:16:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T13:16:40","slug":"weaving-classic-towels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2013\/03\/weaving-classic-towels\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaving Classic Towels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in January when I was working on that special order<\/a> for placemats & napkins I just got the table linens bug. In the process of getting those woven I also wove 9 small towels<\/a> on the sample warp that got rejected for the special order.<\/p>\n

Then I wanted to make something bright & cheery, so wove 14 placemats & a runner in rainbows<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I still wasn’t done. Next I wanted to weave towels. Classic towels. I ordered some white, unmercerized cotton & used some of the blue I had from a few years ago. First I wove 4 plaid towels.
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These are my absolute, all-time, for sure, FAVS! I love, love, LOVE<\/em> these towels. They are really generously sized. I wasn’t thinking totally clearly when I was weaving and should have stopped a whole plaid pattern shorter. Too bad! Whoever buys these towels will be grateful for their size, I’m sure. Unfortunately making them so long means I only got four towels where I should have gotten five.<\/p>\n

Although I love<\/em> these towels (did I mention that already?) I don’t love working with three shuttles for the three warp colors. It really<\/em> slows down my weaving process. Part of me thinks it’s because I don’t weave with multiple shuttles enough, most of me thinks it’s just because it’s a slower process.<\/p>\n

Anyway, for the second half of the warp I used a solid white weft…and made the towels a more ‘normal’ length. These striped towels are swell; if I hadn’t seen the plaid ones I’d think these were the nuts. (I’m sure no one uses that<\/em> expression anymore!)
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My walking foot for the sewing machine made hemming these towels a dream. I’m in love with this little attachment.<\/p>\n

I still wasn’t done with towels…you’ll see the last batch in the next post. A reminder, only a few days left to get in on my blogiversary giveaway<\/a> – you’ll get one of my handwoven towels!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in January when I was working on that special order for placemats & napkins I just got the table linens bug. In the process of getting those woven I also wove 9 small towels on the sample warp that got rejected for the special order.<\/p>\n

Then I wanted to make something bright & cheery, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[530,304],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-towels-linens","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4475,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions\/4475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}