Gift towels 2011

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On the loom
Project
Project Status: 
Finished
Project Date: 
Fri, 11/11/2011 - Mon, 12/19/2011
Yarn
Yarn: 8/2 unmercerized cotton
Color: White
Type: warp
Yarn: 8/2 unmercerized cotton
Color: White
Type: weft
Yarn: 8/2 unmercerized cotton
Color: Sky blue
Type: warp
Yarn: 8/2 unmercerized cotton
Color: Yellow (Maize)
Type: warp
Yarn: 8/2 unmercerized cotton
Color: Sky blue
Type: weft
Yarn: 8/2 unmercerized cotton
Color: Mid blue
Type: warp
Yarn: 8/2 unmercerized cotton
Color: Yellow(Maize)
Type: weft
Yarn: 8/2 unmercerized cotton
Color: Charcoal
Type: weft
Loom
Loom Used: 
4 harness
Number of Shafts: 
4
Number of Treadles: 
4
Sett: 
20.00 EPI
Length on Loom: 
13.50 m
Width on Loom: 
22.00 in
Finished Length: 
12.50 m
Finished Width: 
20.00 in
Notes: 

The people on my Christmas present list are very keen on Handwoven's 'Keep it Simple' towels for all the good reasons that came with the original project - dry well, don't need ironing and look good. I decided it was time for some experimantation this year so added an extra colour to the warp and tried to see how many different towels I could make by changing the colours and the treading with a little help for Davison. Probably should have kept better records of what I was doing as half way through the warp I lost count of how many I'd done and seemed to be weaving on the warp with no end. I was very glad to see the end coming up over the back beam and I ended up with 14 towels, not 14 completely different designs but close to it, and used 9 as gifts and 5 for me. It was hard to decided which to keep!

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Lovely

These towels are just lovely.  Love the colors.  Whoever is recieving these towels is a very lucky person.