Red Plaited Twill
Red Weft
We are working on a six-tea-towel warp and this is the fifth one to be woven. We’re using red wefts this time…
Floating warp
..a floating warp makes a neat edge on a twill weave …
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Measuring Pin
…each tea towel will be 30 inches long…
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Three weft colours
…only one more tea towel left to weave until we can get them all off the warp for a side by side comparison.
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Quimper Hittys 
Beautiful!
Thank you! We are enjoying the process!
You do beautiful work. Thank you for sharing it with us.
You are welcome – we’re really interested in how the colours change the overall look of the tea towels!
I love the shimmering waterfall of reeds in the first picture. And Constance peeking.
Thank you very much – high praise indeed from the Quimper Hittys favourite photographer!
Absolutely lovely!
Thank you too! When weavers like our weaving I am very encouraged!
Your weaving is wonderful! I love your color choices too. I tried weaving once – it’s much harder than it looks! 🙂
Thank you, Becca – my weaving friend and I share the hard bits, that makes it much easier!
Beautiful! My husband is also weaving tea towels for the Mill Sale in Salem. Love the different views of the weaving. It’s great to see a Constance eye view!
I hope Tom’s tea towels are lovely and that he sells lots of them to appreciative recipients! I love the world from a Constance-eye view – it is so interesting!
Constance you are a constant…in our lives. Love the gorgeous weaving, the wonderful colors, the great photos and of course…Constance overseeing all the work. Thank you!!
She’s great, always helpful and serene when things snarl and break! You are welcome!
tea towels are so satisfying to weave. Constance is doing a great job.
We think so too – one of our favourite things to do is weave tea towels…we have a plan to make some linen ones next on our friend’s loom and something a bit more complicated on mine!
My brain “knows” how it all works, but weaving is still magical. Your work is lovely!
Thanks! Of course I can see all the treadling errors, the tension issues and the threading mistake, but somehow I still love to weave!
Great photos, and well done on the weaving. Endless fascination of the colour and pattern combos. Long ago I watched a diamond twill being woven on a warp weighted loom and remember that we had to keep absolutely silent through the warping process. I love the pic with Constance peeking through the shed 🙂
We do enjoy weaving, Constance and I. It is great fun seeing how the colour changes make such a difference.