Weaving project of the year

I am too busy cross-stitching to do something else, I do hope that I can change next year.
However, I manage to finish a weaving project on my table loom.
I first saw the pattern at the very beginning of my weaving 'carrier' when I only had a rigid heddle loom. It could not be done on it. But now... I can to so many things, if only I could stop cross-stitching.
Three-thread Huck runner on 4 shafts.
The pattern is by Valley Yarns using their cottons (10/2 porcelain blue and 3/2 dark teal.). It is actually Placemats pattern but I wove a runner.
Started 11 April and finished 2 December 2018.

Cottonwood Leaf Towels

My one and only weaving project this year was Cottonwood Leaf Towels kit from CottonClouds.
Started warping on 23 February 2017, finished weaving 28 November 2017.
8/2 Cotton on 8 shafts gave me two real towels, one green and one yellow, as planned, and one frankentowel, all stripes from the remaining cottons.

Loopy cloth

One project over - another is on the way.

This time I dressed my rigid heddle loom with cotton/linen blend to make fingertip towels.

It's not exactly weaving but very relaxing.

A Touch of Spring towels ready

My 'A Touch of Spring' towel kit from Cotton Clouds is finished.

Cotton Clouds were generous enough to add some extra yarn for the kit, so I wound a bit longer warp, and this resulted in three towels instead of two.

Two of them are planned 25"x14", and the last one is 20"x14".

For the last towel I also used up all my coloured warp threads and it turned out to be stripy in both directions :).

Can you see squares here?

A Touch of Spring towels

I forgot to take a photo of the kit from Cotton Clouds when I received it but here what is left after measuring the warp.
Natural cottons at the top are for the weft.

One day when I finally learn to dress my loom evenly - I would become the happiest person.

But as for now - I have to put up with loose/tight ends during the weaving.

There is one really bad thing about this kit. It took me two weeks to set the warp (I could do this only for a half day per week - very busy lately). But... it weaves really-really fast. I need to restrain myself from finishing too soon.

And the towels look fabulous!

Waffle weave

My successful experiment with direct warping on my Ashford table loom resulted in 3 and a half waffle napkins. Now I can see a drawback of the direct warping. Too much work but so few towels.

The weaving was such a pleasure! If I were not so busy I could end weaving in a couple of weeks. Good thing I had a chance to prolong the pleasure.

Every napkin is a bit different.

The first one has a waffle hem, which I changed to tabby on all others.

And the last one is too short, as usual, but I always like the last one more :)

Aren't they pretty!

 

I like the way the right side has colourful waffle lines, and the other side has lines of circles.

Baker's twine

With weaving I have developed a strange bias towards a rope section in any utility store. How one can pass a row of colourful baker's twines without buying one or... all of them.

I used them to weave five small kitchen towelettes.
Warp is left-over cotton/linen yarn doubled. I love to used double threads in my rigid-heddle loom - saves so much time. Warping in one go!

Now I have five tiny towels around 22x27 cm each.