Are you ready for February's Towel of the Month? It features the structure "turned summer and winter". It has borders along the long edges, patterned with heart-shaped motifs for Valentine's Day. Here's a fuzzy photo from the original scanned article in Weaver's Journal to give you an idea what it looks like.This towel, like January's towel also calls for 561 ends of 40/2 bleached linen. The pattern warp is red cottolin, and the weft is again the bleached 20/1 linen. The sett is 30 ends per inch (epi) if you want to substitute a different yarn. The warp ends are 380 in the center plain weave section, 60 in each pattern border (not counting the red cottolin), and 30 at each edge (plus 1 to balance if you like).
So let's get started! Are you interested in trying turned summer & winter? I have never done this weave before and I'm excited to try it out. Next post will be the draft including threading, tie-up, treadling and a pick-up pattern for the hearts.
Weave along and get a chance to win the Towel of the Month! If you are weaving along, please leave a comment to let us all know. Put a link or url in the comment to a photo (on your Flickr, Picasaweb, Photobucket, your blog etc.) of your work in progress. Deadline is midnight GMT Feb 28, 2014.
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