I learned to weave in the late 70's when I was in Colorado-now many years later, I am retired and living in the ozarks of Missouri-I am putting on my first warp of at least 15 years now of not weaving-making kitchen towels for my first project
This project comes from Handwoven's issue sept/oct 2009 page 32 A Versatile draft for hand or dish towels by Gunnel Orsejo. Choose any cotton, cottolin, or linen yarns to weave towels in a viking-era twill design. A good project to work from your stash. The structure is a 2/3 broken point twill. After weaving a few inches-wow I love the design.
I just now completed this project-I know just shy of two years-but I do lots of other things besides weave lol rug hook, quilt, make soap, do some fiber art, a little garden, faux walls etc. I loved this pattern and will definately use this again for more towels.Using a textured cotton for weft makes these ideal for hand towels-although you will lose most of the pattern-my last towel looks and feels beautiful with the very textured soft pastel green cotton I found in my stash. I love all the towels.
If I were too change anything, I think I would like the stripe to be wider on both ends. One could also bring in more color by adding stripes of colors in the warp too.
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