Kitchen Towels 2, continued

They are all done, except for hemming!

Green and White Throw

This was my second blanket, in plain weave (shown here with Nacho, the official blanket inspector). Having learned the color lesson where the green looked too dark when woven in free form plaid with white and pink, I tried using green only in the warp, and green and white stripes in the weft, which I think looks much better. Hard to believe it is the same forest green I used in the pink/white/green blanket (see photo below). Also, I tried washing this on delicate, to full it a bit more, thinking it might be warmer without the "holes" between threads of the first blanket. Both are woven at 10 ends per inch (epi). Surprisingly, the green blanket is NOT warmer than the pink one, and I like the texture of the "unwashed" one better. My weaving teacher says the holes hold air, which is insulating. These relatively thin blankets are surprisingly warm. Makes you realize how cheap and crappy store-bought acrylic blankets really are. I don't think I will full blankets in the future. They look better in their original state, I will just soak them in hot water to wash, then spin water out and air dry.

Kitchen Towels 2

Finally finished warping my loom for a new set of kitchen towels, in the "Martini" color scheme. Warping took a long time, and I have been knitting more lately, so I didn't do much weaving this summer. I found out the problem with the plain weave ends of the towels, which I mentioned in my last post. Some threads were not getting caught and I couldn't understand why. I even diagrammed the weave structure on graph paper to see if it was really plain weave, and it was, so I was stymied. It wasn't until I started weaving this next set and could see which threads weren't getting caught.

Want to know what it was? You won't believe it. IT WAS A TIE-UP ERROR!!! I couldn't believe it myself, but I had tied the 1&4 treadle to 1&3. I must have been in such a rush to tie the pedals up to make the wedding gift, and there are 6 different pedal configurations for this weave. Wow. I was glad to fix that one. Now my plain weave ends will be nice & easy to hem. Whew!