Dropping in With Weaving Update & Sewer Install

   Everything is working smoothly now-still can't get over that totally messed up tension on warp-do to papers.

   I have used papers in the past and never had a problem, this finer yarn just did not care for it-and wow what a difference too.

   I just finished the second towel and used a left over cotton with a bit of texture that I used in the bath hand towels. It is a bit larger thread too so the pattern really shows up.  Going forward I am weaving a wider border-changing up colors-and also changing up the pattern weave to sometimes using a plain weave in the border areas.

   I started on the third towel and the border I am doing now is the finer yarn and the brown-same as warp threads. Will weave the body of this next towel a darker blue.

I am doing a wider borders on the ends then I started out with on the first towel, and will fold over a couple turns and either hand hem stitch or machine sew.

While I am weaving that top part now which will be the border for next towel-I can not see the pattern while I am weaving it-so far I see no pattern mistakes. I actually have the pattern in my head now so far haven't made a mistake since my first towel

and Wow is it ever noisy here-the sewer crew is here digging through soil and lots of rock.

  I took a photo from the window behind my loom which has a screen on it

You can just barely see the second machine behind that tree on the left

 When they went for lunch I took these photos from the deck

With all the rain we have had this month, the ground is really soft- we were nice and let these construction guys use our property to get down to this area to work-otherwise they would have had to do all this hard work by hand and use a boat for product--they are to fix this mess afterwards and gravel our little path from up on top of the steps down to the lake as a thank you. That will be nice to get that rock.

     Larry used to work for the same union back in his younger days in Chicago, so he has enjoyed chatting with them

Happy Wednesday-the Memorial Day vacationers are arriving as I type-the lake will be very busy from now on 

  Update:  Ok I am loving this blue so much better than the lighter blue with this brown  They are both pretty but I think this blue really pops and shows off the pattern more