Was emptying yarn baskets to get some light on all my wool yarns and these hand-dyed cotton skeins caught my eye. It is a thin cotton with a few slubs plied with something that didn’t take the reactive dye I used for the cotton. The spirit yarn came from the weaving program at school when it closed down. Marsha and I used it to experiment with dyeing cotton.

As I was winding the yarn from skeins to balls for warping, I decided to look in my stash for a base color. Lo and behold, once the colors were out on the table, I could see a rainbow. So these will be Pride towels.
24” wide on the Ashford table loom. I am winding a 6 yard warp for 5 towels. This gives me stripes of the variegated yarns that are at least 3” wide. My plan calls for 3” but if I can get them a little wider I think I’ll push a little closer to yarn chicken. I really want to highlight the variegated warp in these towels.

The yarn was wound into skeins with two yarns together and then dyed. So I’m warping with two strands together as one end. Doing the same with the 10/2 and 8/2 solid cottons that I had so they are roughly the same weight.

I had originally calculated for 25” width but then I decided I wanted to put these on the table loom so I figured out I would need 12.5 epi to get a 24” width instead. The yarn is thicker than I usually use so I’m not sure if the sett will work, but we shall see.