{"id":9730,"date":"2019-09-29T16:42:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T21:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=9730"},"modified":"2019-09-29T16:42:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T21:42:04","slug":"working-on-towels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2019\/09\/working-on-towels\/","title":{"rendered":"Working on towels"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know that I can sell a bunch of towels at the Weavers’ Guild Holiday Sale<\/a>, so decided that’s what I’d work on next. I warped up the loom with that handpainted cotton shown in my last post and set about weaving. I was hoping that my dye planning worked so that each towel would have all of the colors, ideally only once.<\/p>\n

Jack decided to photobomb my first pics, these of the two towels with dark wefts – purple on the left and marine on the right.<\/p>\n

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Here they are without Jack so you can better see the colors. The warp colors worked out well on these two.<\/p>\n

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I wove two towels with blue-ish wefts in two different shades; actually teal on the left and baby blue on the right. Again the handpainting worked out pretty well.<\/p>\n

\"handwoven<\/a><\/p>\n

I wove another two towels with different yellows for wefts. Again the painting worked fine.<\/p>\n

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And I wove two towels with natural wefts, one with the 5\/2 I’d used for warp, the other with 8\/2. These 2, which would have been my favorites, didn’t have the handpainting land quite as well.<\/p>\n

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Still, I like the overall look of the stripes blending from one color to the next and am likely to do this again in the future.<\/p>\n

But not right now. I went for another run of polka dots. Here’s the first towel on the loom. You can see a threading error in the 5th red circle from the right. This wasn’t the only threading error that I had, and when I found this one about 8″ in, I fixed it and then decided it was time to walk away for the day. You can also see that the use of the yellows, especially the light yellow, wasn’t a great choice. C’est la vie.<\/p>\n

\"red<\/a><\/p>\n

Parting shot – my kousa dogwood displaying its lovely red fruits for the fall. In the spring I was wishing I’d chosen a Florida dogwood, but now I’m glad I didn’t; they don’t fruit like this.<\/p>\n

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