Sleying the Reed

Sleyed the reed last night all in one sitting.  Only 540 ends, so it went swiftly.  BUT but but there was just enough time to finish before running upstairs to cook dinner before we watched Wolf Hall.  So no time to tie on and start weaving...that'll be for tonight!

Also I picked up the box from Yarn Barn yesterday at the Lakeview Post Office here in SF.  I had bought some blue yarn in what I was hoping to be an indigo color, since my cousin will want to be able to wash them in the washer, in which real indigo would suffer from the detergent.  So I tried to choose a nice perle cotton that was dyed with synthetic dye that would hold up in a modern washer but still look kind of like the right color for indigo.  Note to self: "Yale Blue" does not look like indigo.

I also received the cottolin (40% linen, 60% cotton) I'd ordered.   It's not as smooth or as even as the perle cotton, of course, but that might make a nice weft, and with the linen it would add absorbency that the perle cotton warp would not do quite as well.  I think I'll weave one of the towels with the cottolin as the weft.