Great colors and Textures!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love the textures and colors of these towels!

I love that both sides are different!

This time, I used dark thread to serge and sew the edges... and I like that, too!

They're off!

Now it's time to hit the washer and dryer!

New Neighbors

Since about Christmastime or Thanksgiving time, our neighbors have been building a house across the street in front of our house.  At first, I had mixed feelings.  There were both good things and bad things about this!  First, the house that is now behind their house was a very loud house that we nicknamed "The Band House" because they played in a band at all hours of the night, and oddly one of the members is partly deaf, so they play REALLY loud so they can be heard!  We were glad when this house popped up because now it covers up "The Band House" and we don't have to see or hear them anymore!  That was the good thing.  The bad thing is that with the lot being filled, it feels more crowded than it once did, but at least the house looks decent and pretty, and we have met the neighbors and they are really nice people!  In fact, they took us on a tour before the house was complete.  I have been taking updated pictures for them and emailing the pictures to them regularly, so they can see the progress on their house while they are away.  Here are some pictures of the progress:

Our new neighbors love color, and they warned us that their house will be very colorful!  I'm happy because I love color, too.  They said the inside will be several shades of greens, and so I decided to weave them a towel from this colorful "everything bite" warp while I had the chance.  It's a very colorful warp, and so I added a sage green for the weft and I think it will be perfect for them as a house-warming gift!  I can't wait until their house is done at the end of this month and they move in! 

Blues!

"Blues!"... And not the "sadness" kind!  It's actually the very, very happy kind!

Here is dark blue:

And you've seen light blue before, but I liked it so much I decided to do an entire section of it:

Here is what the backside looks like, in case you've been wondering all this time!

The backside has the opposite of the front, or horizontal floats while the side you've been seeing all this time has been vertical floats.  I like both sides!  They each have unique charm!

Off to another day of weaving!

This is the life!

I love to weave...
and there's no "April Fooling" there!  :-)

Dark Wefts

I liked the dark plum weft so much, that I decided to do a bunch of towels in dark plum!  I might do a bunch more, and then maybe switch to some blue.  I like how easy these towels are, and yet they have a lot of personality because of all the colors in the warp!

Colors

 Since I have 20 colors in the warp, I figured there are a lot of colors to choose from for the weft!

And I want each towel to have several colors... 

I also want this to be somewhat brainless (like the last weave) and I don't have to have to measure them as I go!

So I am just weaving... 

 ... and weaving... 

... aaaaaand weaving!

And it feels so good not to have to think too hard about them!

And I can still include everything in the "everything bite" towels!

PS.  I love the texture in this picture:

Pattern

I have decided to use the zen towels pattern for this set of the everything bite towels, also found on page 165 of The Handweaver's Pattern Directory by Anne Dixon.  I really like this weave!  It's so simple, it has a great texture, and it looks really neat!  I also like how the colors interact with the floats in this weave.

So far, I love this weave!

Love is...

... weaving art!

 

 

OK, and for all of you who want a non-photoshop picture, here is one for you:

Although the photo-shopped images ARE pretty darn cool... and so much more fun to make!

Expression is everything

 

I love how these towels are so happy and colorful!  I also love how the warp is so straight, and organized.  That is something that I really like about weaving!  I love how organized it all feels and looks!

Ready for threading!

 

The "Everything Bite" towels

One day, I had this random idea to mix everything together and make some towels.  I set out all the colors, and at first I wasn't too impressed with it, but I just wanted something with everything in it!  But now that I have the warp all measured out, I like all these colors mixed together.

 I am naming them my "everything bite" towels, because it's a bite of everything!  When I make something yummy for Brian to eat, usually he has to have a bite of it that includes "everything" in it, and he calls it his "everything bite", so that is where the name stems from!  Furthermore, I feel that we are at a point in our lives right now where we need to make some major decisions before we progress forward, and as I consider everything we have in mind, I am taking my very own "everything bite" of our situation!  I think things are headed in the right direction, but we can do better and there is more to come for us!  So in celebration of all the good things that are right at our fingertips...

Now introducing the "everything bite" towels!

 

 This warp has 21 different colors in it!

 

They're going to be so fun and exciting!