Thursday, July 15, 2010

Organic Cotton Towels - M's and O's

I've fallen behind on my record keeping, so now it's time to catch up! A couple of months ago, I wove a set of kitchen towels in M's and O's, using a 10/2 organic cotton sampler from Chamomile Connection. I needed to make some gift towels, so I wove a set of four. Two were for me to give as (another!) wedding gift. Another was for my grandma to give to her cleaning lady. Grandma is quite fond of her, and she has admired a couple of towels that I have made for Grandma. The last, I kept for myself.
I was inspired to weave these some scarves in a recent issue of Handwoven. They were M's and O's with different stripes in the warp. I thought that would be a good way to use the little bits of different colors that were in the sampler.

Here is a shot of the towels on the loom. The colors are really subtle.

And here are a couple of the towels after washing in hot water, detergent, and washing soda. The colors are much more vibrant. I used a different color of weft on each towel.

4 comments:

DEEP END OF THE LOOM said...

The towels are gorgeous, great neutral earthy tones.

Alison said...

Thanks! The cotton was color-grown. I think when you leave the color choices to Mother Nature, she won't usually let you down. :)

Clare said...

These are lovely, I love these colours. I also love the huck table runner and just about everything else.

Bamboo towels uk said...

Nice one...is such designs are now also available...I also planning to gift this thing to my Grandpa...