I saw this color palette on Pinterest and chose 4 different colors for the warp. (WEBS: Black Forest, Burnt Sienna, Tobacco and Eggplant.) The width of the stripes and colors can be adjusted to whatever you should desire. Each color stripe was 34 end wide on my towel and I just alternated the two twills and arranged the colors symmetrically. I originally had planned to sley at 20 EPI but got carried away with the stripes and would have had a very wide towel. Changing to 24 EPI brought it back to a reasonable width. Either sett would work fine. Use a floating selvage on both sides.
Guild: MAFA Associate Member
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I did not put the different colors of the used threads, it’s up to you to use any color.
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The color sequence (Chasing Rainbows) comes from The Weaver’s Weevil by Rebecca Fox and the warp yarn is 10/2 mercerized cotton from Lunatic Fringe (color spectrum). I used black for the weft and threaded on a straight draw.
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This was done at a somewhat loose sett in the workshop as an experiment. I really liked the soft hand. The workshop towel was too narrow for this exchange so I made another. I hope you like it.
Color and weave pattern was 2-1 dark-light in both the warp and the weft.
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I followed the pattern as published, except for these changes:
1. I used 22/2 Cottolin for the weft instead of 8/2 Cotton
2. In order to comply with the Towel Exchange rules, I removed the outer 32 threads on each side of the towel, a reduction of 64 ends. Instead of 490 ends, my towel has 426 ends.