UtOh, Oven...

Purple towels done, and two have
found their forever homes

The bread I posted the photo of? I thought it was pretty successful, but it didn't have the big holes and didn't rise as much as I'd hoped. I also thought there might have been an issue with the oven, so I bought a thermometer... Yep, it's not heating right and honestly I'm surprised that the last bread was even edible. It *should* get fixed tomorrow, December 23rd, otherwise I need to rethink my Christmas menu...

I finished weaving the three purple towels (playing yarn chicken) but managed to have enough warp left to weave 4 inches or so extra... I'll put that in my bag of small bits that I might one day make small bags (or komebukuro?) from. 

I think I've detailed the dyeing issues... to add to that, I'll say that tieing a 2" resist alternating with 2" color doesn't give very interesting shifted patterns. So I'll spend some time thinking about what to do next, meanwhile I'll get some other projects done. 

I did notice that I had only one treadling error that I didn't notice and fix while weaving, but there were a number of issues with skipped threads, and a few selvedge issues. Honestly, I'm a better weaver than that but I missed having something on the loom so much that I just sped through it without thinking. One of the 3, I'll keep, and I have a friend with a purple kitchen who will get another... The third will go to my buddy P; I showed it to her at knit night this week, mentioning I don't know anyone whose kitchen was a good match and she would like one. 

The runner for the Weave-in is going well; I'll do a seperate post on that.  I've warped for two runners (a test runner, and one for that weekend); here's a preview of the color work section. I'm also winding a warp for towels with carrots on them for a charity auction.

Weave-in runner sample started!