Hello everyone! I've been busy experimenting with double weave, and LOVE my Hannah blanket from Glimakra! If you haven't explored this style, the kit is a great introduction. But getting to my posting.... Oh No! Oh No! I just finished four gorgeous waffle weave towels meant to be Christmas gifts. The draft was from Handwoven's Design Collection 5, and I wove the towels pictured on the cover. Fun to weave, looked JUST like those pictured. After one towel was woven, I switched from the 8/2 in the plain weave hem to white cotton thread. And just as I thought, the thread hems turned up beautifully and fit the size of the towels, but the 8/2 hem was wider than the body of the towel, so I did some "magical" folding to make the hem narrower. OK, all seemed well. Then into the wash....warm wash, cool rinse, and WHAM, when I took them out, the hems, I mean ALL THE HEMS are crummy, wider, ruffled and I am so bummed. As I study the picture of her towels, All the waffle boxes look a bit more square than mine, maybe mine are more rectangle, but I worked so hard to beat firmly because of that. Anyone have light to shed? At worst, I now have four new towels for my kitchen, because I don't consider a ruffled hem towel gift worthy.