Remember the dishtowels I made for my mom? I've got pictures of them now!

One of the first rules of weaving is never to judge a product until it's been washed. See the difference?

(the lighting's a little different in these pictures. While the texture did change,
the colors didn't actually change much when washed)

When I wove mom's towels I didn't want to get bored, so I decided to mix up the color scheme as much as was possible with two static colors in the warp. This actually works really well with this pattern... I've also heard it looks really nice with a lighter and darker shade of the same color.

My First towel Was Off-White & Navy



Then I Tried Off-White & Sage



The Third I did Sage & Navy



And finally, I did only Navy.
Simply to see how just one color in the weft would look in this pattern

Once they were all washed and hemmed, they were at last ready to be wrapped and presented for mothers day!

It's taken several washings to get both the natural and factory applied oils and waxes off the cotton, but I think they're finally absorbent enough to work well as hand towels.

When I go to the houses of the other weavers they have their kitchen towel drawers full of all sorts of different handwoven dishtowels that are in just gorgeous patterns and textures and all in an eclectic assortment of beautiful bright colors and lovely soft color combinations. Maybe someday my kitchen towel drawer will look like that