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I finally took the time to finish 3 different projects!  I had to do it over several days during David's naptimes! The pastel towels are done, and hemmed.  I just turned the edges over on these ones because I don't have any white thread that works well in my serger.   I ended up using 3 different designs.   The blue echo project is also done.  I ended up making 3 baby burp clothes for a friend having a boy in the spring.     I also made 2 gigantic towels out of the zigzags... they are so big, I could probably use one as a blanket for David on our chilly morning walks!  :) And I turned my first echo weave sample into a handtowel for the bathroom!  It's nice and thick because of the tight epi!   David enjoyed his first Thanksgiving!  He ate a little bit of everything... and the pumpkin pie was his absolute favorite!  He also liked the cranberry sauce, which I found surprising because of how tart it happens to be! David also decid...

On November 1st, David took his first army scoot.  I finally captured it on camera on the 6th of Nov, and he really took off after that!  This is from Nov 16th: David is ALL over the place right now!  He loves going after the poor kitty... but as you can guess, I don't get a whole lot done during the day when he's awake... and that's ok!  I would rather hang out with him and watch him do all his cool stunts! I started another echo weave project, but it turns out it wasn't as good as the first.  I used 5 colors and rotated them into every combination of 5 I could get... which is 18 combinations.  And then I wove strips of each color combination.  But it was disappointing compared to the first one.  I ended up just treadling 1-8 and then 7-1 back over and over again instead of following the echo weave pattern.  I kind of like what I got, but I will definitely not repeat this one again. Original design: This is how I ended up weaving off the res...

After studying the samples, I have noticed a pattern.  If the original combination has the weft color in it, I tend to like it better.  If you introduce a new color in the weft, it's almost too much, unless the new color is very similar to at least one of the other colors there.  Another thing I noted is if all the colors tend to go together anyway, then it always looks awesome!  Take these 3 squares of blue, for example.  All 3 of these contain dark blue in the weft, but there is also a dark blue in the warp, too. In the next example, the two diamonds on the right have both medium blue in the weft AND a med blue in the warp somewhere.  But the two diamonds on the left do not have a med blue in the warp.  Med blue was pulled out on those two and substituted for yellow.  It tends to look slightly muddier because of all the colors involved and also some of them are opposites. All 4 of these diamonds contain both green in the warp and weft.  I l...

I only had enough space for 2 more weft colors, so I choose pink and light green.  They were not part of the original color choices, so I was curious about what would happen. They both look pretty neat!   Here is a picture from each side of this piece!  I can't wait to get started studying each section.   First, it must be washed and dried in the machines.  haha!

 Loved this section in the teal!  It was the section with blues, greens, and plum. Loved the far left with the plum, although in that row there were a lot of good ones!  Liking anything in the left side seemed like such a rare thing though that I decided to record it! After going through all the colors, my 2 yard warp was just long enough!  I might pull some other colors from the closet and rotate through them to get an idea what some other colors might look like. The 2nd half...  hopefully it washes up to be more square after it comes off the loom! I think the sett is just a hair tight, but if I drop down to a #8 reed, it will become too lose.  In this case, I need a #9 reed! The orange kitty decided to join me! David is teething!  He has two bottom teeth already, and he's working on the top two!  Because of this, he's chewing on everything now...

Of all the colors so far, this is my favorite combination, and this is my favorite section: Here's some more closeups! I don't like the other end as much... I can't wait to dissect it more and figure out the whys. Here it is so far... it's going to be very pretty just on its own! I love this picture of David!

Orange you glad this isn't the last color?   David is growing up so fast!  He's 6 months old now!