I decided to go with a stone colored warp, and make the weft on each one different. I plan on making about 6 towels, one of which I will cut up for Christmas cards (if I have the heart to do so... I'm kind of liking these towels already... oops... that wasn't supposed to happen!) I think I'm going to do a towel only in the stone color, one with a warp of brown, green, yellow, and I'm not sure on the last two yet. Maybe a nice spruce blue and another brown or green.
Here are the stats:
56 threads total in each repeat
Set at 25 epi on 15 dent reed, so threaded 1-2-2
6 yard warp
approx. 20" across, so the design is repeated 9 times
504 threads
Here's the design again (from the Sept/Oct 1995 Handwoven magazine) and the skeleton tie-up I plan to use:
I want to get these tree towels ready in time for a Christmas craft show that one of my friends is doing in their home. I hope I can sell a few of my handwoven towels! I'm also going to put in some zen towels and a few other random ones I have on hand.