This is the second of a set of unmercerized cotton textured towels that I’ve been working on. I started running out of the light blue color early on, which means that I had to change plans. This was supposed to be just vertical stripes. This plaid of different colored horizontal stripes will help me make the decision for the next one. Right now I’m leaning toward the medium blue, using this pattern. Tonight I wove about six inches.

When I wind a long warp, I like to do each piece a different way.

Today I joined a Flickr group called Crafting 365. I hope that it will help me stay on track by encouraging me to do something in the studio (or a portable project) every day, even if it is for just 15 minutes. Every day, I’ll post a photo to this blog and to Crafting 365 of something that I’m working playing with. My hope is to always keep something going on the Baby Wolf loom, and also have a portable project, such as beading or inkle weaving, to take with me. The main project, of which the Crafting 365 is simply a part, is giving me a wealth of ideas. (In other words, Crafting 365 will be fertilizer for another garden that I’m planting.) Some of these ideas will require me to step out of my comfort zone, which I hope will be good for me. Some ideas I got from going to Susanne and John’s house, and some I got from surfing the Net.

But I’ll always keep an old-fashioned traditional rhythmic type project for when I just need to press pedals and throw shuttles.

I’ll write more about this later because I need to get away from the computer. I’m trying to rein in my time here at night.