Yesterday I had time to hem the towels I took off the loom last week. I really like this colorway. The Valley Yarns 8/2 cotton is from WEBS and so I am using their color names. The warp was stripes of Shale, Willow Green, Madder Brown and Alabaster.
It is still amazing to me how different they look depending on both the pattern and tabby weft colors. In general, I found a darker tabby was more effective than a lighter one. Shale and Baked Clay both worked well as tabby.
Left: Baked Clay pattern and Shale tabby. Right: Madder Brown pattern and Alabaster tabby.
Lime with Shale tabby; 2 different treadling patterns
Left: warp colors as pattern, Alabaster tabby. Right: Alabaster pattern, Baked Clay tabby.
Burnt Sienna pattern with Shale tabby on left and with Alabaster tabby on right
Black pattern with Baked Clay tabby, 2 different treadling patterns
The big Workshop Weekend is finally here – we go down to Wenatchee today to pick up our teacher, Mary Berent from Eagle, Idaho. She is flying Boise to Sea-Tac, then catching the short hop to from Seattle to Wenatchee.
Twisp of Fate 
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