My first project on my brand new Louët David III 90 loom.

I followed the pattern/draft for winding the warp and threading the heddles except I wound a ~5-yard warp and made a mistake in the first bout, so I have an extra red stripe. I noticed the mistake after I had tied on but before I had started weaving, and I could have corrected it simply by winding 5 5-yd ends of white and taking out and replacing the mistaken red stripe with those ends, but I decided not to bother. There was no disruption to the pattern itself--that is, all the threads were in the proper place in the rose path repeat, so I decided a little asymmetry would be okay.

431 ends, which includes double floating selvedges. I didn’t know how to sley double floating selvedges, so I just put both ends through one slot in the reed.

I did the hems in plain weave for 2 inches using white 16/2 cotton.

Towel #1
I followed the pattern except I ended with a blue plaid repeat, and I made the white sections 5 repeats instead of 6. (I did this throughout the project.)

Towel #2
I alternated the plaids starting and ending with the red plaid--4 red plaid repeats total, 3 blue plaid repeats total.

Towel #3
5 repeats white, 1 repeat red X2
5 repeats white, 1 repeat blue X2

I repeated the above pattern 5 times, then ended with 5 repeats white, 1 repeat red X2, 5 repeats white

Towel #4
Same as towel 3 except I switched the red and the blue

Towel #5 (end of warp)
On this towel I did the white hem, then 5 repeats of white, then 1 rpt each blue white red white blue, 5 repeats white, 1 rpt each red white blue white red, 5 repeats white, then 1 rpt each blue white red white blue. I wove in white until I had 7 inches left, then repeated the striping but starting the first stripe with red, the second with blue, and the last with red

                          Before washing            After washing

Towels 1 and 2 19 ⅛ X 32 inches 17 ⅜ X 31
19 ⅛ X 30 ½ inches 17 ⅜ X 28 ½
Towel #3 19 ⅛ X 32 ½ inches 17 ⅜ X 29 ⅜
Towel #4 19 ⅛ X 33 ¾ inches 17 ½ X 31 ⅝
Towel #5 19 ⅛ X 30 ½ 17 ⅝ X 28 ¾