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Monday, April 6, 2020

April Goal

My One Monthly Goal for April (hosted by Elm Street Quilts) is to weave another set of tea towels.


This is the last of the kits I bought from Jane Stafford Textiles. These are to learn Huck Lace - again much easier to weave than I thought it would be. Made from plain 8/2 cotton, the kit is for 8 towels.


Each set of towels I have made I have had to deal with some kind of a weaving issue (a great way to learn! A few loose warp threads with the first ones, and replacing a warp thread with the second ones), for this one I made a mistake while threading the heddles (the wire pieces that hold the yarn and create the pattern), and had to move threads around and add a couple of repair heddles (made from cottolin) - probably not the correct thing to do, but it worked for me.


It results in some of the warp threads not having the right spacing, but I hope it will all come out in the wash! I didn't want to re-thread over 400 threads.

Photos from around -

 We had a snow storm last week (the second biggest snow fall this winter).
 Frost on the weeds in the ditch.
 The puppy running circles around the cat.

All the best!♥︎