Link to the pattern collection: http://www.interweavestore.com/handwovens-design-collecti... This pattern is plain weave. All the “action” is in the color selection you make. I did not follow the pattern for the weft stripes so that the weaving would go faster.

Wound a 6 yard warp of 2328 yards of cotton. Weft yarn projected to be used is approximately 1430 additional yards.

This will be 6 dish towels with stripes in plain weave. The largest part of the yarn was Fox Fiber colored cotton that I bought over 10 years ago with thoughts of a baby blanket for a friend. DEEP stash! I also used colors from an assortment of coned cotton. I wasn’t sure about the colors together until I actually wound the warp. I had forgotten the effect of optical blending on the colors when they are mixed together. This will happen even more as the weaving starts.
2/8/15
Dressing the loom is almost complete. A couple of broken warp threads have to be repaired and I have to tie on to the front beam. I plan to start the actual weaving this week. Woo hoo! It feels good to be weaving again.

2/26/15
Two towels with just beige weft are done. One of the two beige with a red weft stripe is done, with the second one started. Not sure what the weft will be for the last two towels. There is a nice coral color that I could maybe use doubled or tripled. I’m thinking of using twill for the last two towels, just for sake of seeing the differences.

3/1
Almost done with towel 5. Wasn’t able to do twill due to the rinky dink way I threaded the heddles. Oh well. I decided to use a coral stripe that is the coral thread held tripled. It is awfully thin, but I think tripled was a little too thick. We will see when they get washed how well that worked. I think towel 6 won’t have a coral stripe, maybe a blue one or a green one.

3/3
Off the loom tonight! About 1430 yards of weft used. That makes a total of about 3700 yards used in this project. Can’t wait to see how they finish up with a wash, dry and ironing!

3/14
Done. Hemmed, washed, dried and photographed!