Messed around with the tie up and quite like how it looks this way.
Not sure which I will use since both are potentially useful, although I'm leaning more to this one. OTOH, I won't really know until I start weaving.
The weft will be very close to the warp in value. I purposefully chose paler hues to make the warps. With such fine yarns, I could have gone with a higher contrast, but what I did was buy 4 different colours and I plan on mixing and matching the four to produce a range of towels that look different but play nicely together.
I suppose it doesn't really matter much since I no longer do craft fairs, but with each colour combo enough to beam 5 warps, I found I was getting tired of the same colour warps. Mixing and matching will provide some visual 'interest', I think.
With 5 kilos of the white linen, each kilo weaving about 20 towels, that's 100 or so towels ahead of me. I'm hoping to get some done in time for the craft fairs in the fall, but I also still have to finish writing the articles I've committed to writing. However, Thursday will be a 'light' duty day, so I expect to work on the wet finishing, then 'testing' (experimenting) for the first article. As soon as I can, I want to get it to the editor in case they want more, or something different.
Plus my sale is on until July 9 and today I need to hit the post office with the bag of packages to mail.
It's a grey dreary day, but honestly? Better to have rain clouds overhead than thick wildfire smoke pall. I'm working hard to be grateful and not complain.
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