My patterns always start with a plan, but things don’t always turn out as expected! The front of these towels didn’t finish quite as I had anticipated, but the wrong side was a delightful surprise. It had a beautiful pattern that reminded me of starlight mints—the candies that seem so Christmassy! So, as weavers do, I adapted and made the wrong side the right side.
Woven in red, green and white, these cotton towels bring a little Christmas into the kitchen. Of course, you don’t have to stick with Christmas colours. I see these with a black background and every stripe a different colour, or one background colour with all the stripes in a single contrasting colour. The variations are really endless!
The pattern uses two pick-up sticks, or one pick-up stick and a heddle rod with string heddles. I enjoyed using string heddles for this project, but there’s very little counting involved if you prefer to use pick-up sticks.
Detailed instructions and videos take you through the whole project, from warping to hemming, including help with checking your weaving and fixing unwanted floats. You’ll weave with the wrong side facing you, so take a peek underneath occasionally to see how things are coming along!
WHAT YOU’LL MAKE
Two cotton tea towels about 16″ × 25″ each after wet finishing and hemming.
WHO THIS PROJECT IS FOR
This project is for weavers who are comfortable warping their rigid heddle loom and weaving plain weave, and are ready to work with two pick-up sequences. You don’t need previous experience with string heddles—the instructions and videos will help you get started.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
• Working with two pick-up sticks
• Using string heddles as an alternative to reinserting a pick-up stick
• Finding and repairing unwanted floats
• Washing, pressing and hemming your towels
YARN
8/2 cotton in your choice of colours. The sample uses Blanchi for the background, with Cerise and Vert Fonce for the stripes.
You’ll need a background colour and one or more stripe colours, with enough contrast for the design to show.
EQUIPMENT
• 24″ rigid heddle loom with a 10-dent reed
• Two pick-up sticks, or one pick-up stick and a heddle rod with 20 string heddles
• Two extra warping sticks for spreading the warp
• One shuttle
• All your usual warping and weaving tools, including warp separator paper or sticks, threading hook, tape measure, scissors and darning needle
• Sewing machine or needle and thread for hemming
The pattern includes a small adjustment to fit a 20″ loom.
WANT A KIT?
Cotton Clouds carries this as a kit—buy the pattern, then visit www.cottonclouds.com to get the cotton sent right to your mailbox!
This listing is for a downloadable PDF weaving pattern, not finished towels.
My patterns always start with a plan, but things don’t always turn out as expected! The front of these towels didn’t finish quite as I had anticipated, but the wrong side was a delightful surprise. It had a beautiful pattern that reminded me of starlight mints—the candies that seem so Christmassy! So, as weavers do, I adapted and made the wrong side the right side.
Woven in red, green and white, these cotton towels bring a little Christmas into the kitchen. Of course, you don’t have to stick with Christmas colours. I see these with a black background and every stripe a different colour, or one background colour with all the stripes in a single contrasting colour. The variations are really endless!
The pattern uses two pick-up sticks, or one pick-up stick and a heddle rod with string heddles. I enjoyed using string heddles for this project, but there’s very little counting involved if you prefer to use pick-up sticks.
Detailed instructions and videos take you through the whole project, from warping to hemming, including help with checking your weaving and fixing unwanted floats. You’ll weave with the wrong side facing you, so take a peek underneath occasionally to see how things are coming along!
WHAT YOU’LL MAKE
Two cotton tea towels about 16″ × 25″ each after wet finishing and hemming.
WHO THIS PROJECT IS FOR
This project is for weavers who are comfortable warping their rigid heddle loom and weaving plain weave, and are ready to work with two pick-up sequences. You don’t need previous experience with string heddles—the instructions and videos will help you get started.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
• Working with two pick-up sticks
• Using string heddles as an alternative to reinserting a pick-up stick
• Finding and repairing unwanted floats
• Washing, pressing and hemming your towels
YARN
8/2 cotton in your choice of colours. The sample uses Blanchi for the background, with Cerise and Vert Fonce for the stripes.
You’ll need a background colour and one or more stripe colours, with enough contrast for the design to show.
EQUIPMENT
• 24″ rigid heddle loom with a 10-dent reed
• Two pick-up sticks, or one pick-up stick and a heddle rod with 20 string heddles
• Two extra warping sticks for spreading the warp
• One shuttle
• All your usual warping and weaving tools, including warp separator paper or sticks, threading hook, tape measure, scissors and darning needle
• Sewing machine or needle and thread for hemming
The pattern includes a small adjustment to fit a 20″ loom.
WANT A KIT?
Cotton Clouds carries this as a kit—buy the pattern, then visit www.cottonclouds.com to get the cotton sent right to your mailbox!
This listing is for a downloadable PDF weaving pattern, not finished towels.
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