Lonely Loom: the next warp!

My cousin's towels are all ready to go back East.   I love completing projects (unfinished projects are something that would lurk in the back of my mind, guilting me) but following closely on the heels of a finished project is the Dread of the Empty Loom.

That's something I consider a good quality, as it impels me to strive towards the next project!

So...the next project will ALSO be kitchen towels, but this time they will not be traditional at all: they will be chartreuse, violet, pink, and orange.  Same size as the ones I just finished, but with a more jaunty pattern (not a diasper twill, like the previous ones).  And in fun freaky colors!

Not sure exactly what comes after that, but I have ordered some 1st-quality Swedish-made linen.  I'd like to use it as a warp, but as the AVL is a jack loom, the warp, at rest, is not held in a straight line.  So the Cranbrook, which is not set up at the moment, is good for that.  However, the AVL does quite beautifully with a cotton warp, so I think that I will make a tablecloth using a cotton warp and a linen weft.  The small sections of the towels I wove previously on a cotton warp using a linen weft actually came out quite nicely.  The unbleached linen in particular was very beautiful contrasted with the unbleached color of the cotton warp.

In other news today, I was invited to be a guest on an arts show on the radio soon for a radio station in Bennington, VT., where I was born!  More on that later, but I'm chuffed!

 

Here's the towel I wove for our little table; instead of blue, I used unbleached linen for the contrasting stripes.  Old celadon bowl at top.

 

The towels woven for my cousin.

 

Some samples from the same warp.  Ribbon is the same cotton warp and pattern, but the weft here is natural indigo-dyed silk.