September Meeting Part II - Towels

Here's more from our meeting last month.  Jackie decided to weave some towels since she hasn't woven any in a while.  She used 10/2 cotton sett at 24 epi to create a ton of towels using a classic two block twill from Carol Strickler's 8-shaft book.

She was able to get a broad variation in these towels by using different weft colors and varying the vertical size of the blocks. 
 

 

Jackie also shared a scarf she wove with cotton, silk and rayon yarns with random colors across the warp.  It was woven in plain weave. 

Wendy-Marie shared her 4-shaft herringbone towels.  These were woven mostly with 8/2 cotton and cottolin. 

These are in beautiful colors and each towel looks really different.  Here's some detailed pictures:

All of these towels would be a great addition to anyone's home.  Nice work!

Marcy's Weaving Space

Last month we met at Marcy's. Great sharing and delicious cookies. 

    

 

Marcy is lucky enough to have a room dedicated to her weaving.  She's got a nice floor loom and accessories.   Although I think she needs more yarn in her stash.

   Marcy shared two pieces she wove as dresser scarves for her husband.  The patterns she used for the herringbone runner (second one shown below) are on pages 34 & 35 of Anne Dixon's book, The Handweaver's Pattern Directory . Horizontal herringbone, Broken 2/2 twill and Hopsack.