 The last few towels flew off the loom, and I pretty much flew by the seat of my pants in deciding what colour combinations to use.
The last few towels flew off the loom, and I pretty much flew by the seat of my pants in deciding what colour combinations to use.For the fifth towel, I went with one in kelly green and magenta, which is definitely one of my favourites of the whole bunch. It's really bright and I like how the colours work together.
With the sixth towel, I realized that I was running out of towels to weave, and I wanted to get back to orange, since I had really liked the previous orange one a lot. Since I had done it with magenta already (and didn't want to do anything too tonally similar like the dark red) I matched it up with the dark purple. I like this one a lot too.
 The other light colour I'd only used once was yellow, and while I toyed with using it against the kelly green or against the orange, I was afraid that they just wouldn't have enough contrast to be visually interesting.  I went with magenta instead, since both of my previous magenta towels turned out so pretty.  In the end, I think it's a bit too similar to the yellow/red combo (until you see them next to each other they look pretty close) but je ne regrette rien.
The other light colour I'd only used once was yellow, and while I toyed with using it against the kelly green or against the orange, I was afraid that they just wouldn't have enough contrast to be visually interesting.  I went with magenta instead, since both of my previous magenta towels turned out so pretty.  In the end, I think it's a bit too similar to the yellow/red combo (until you see them next to each other they look pretty close) but je ne regrette rien.I had to get them off the loom quickly because I have a time-sensitive project to weave - Handwoven magazine is taking submissions for designs for a new e-book and I wanted to weave up a sample to submit it - but once that is all done, I will hem and wash and iron these towels and show them off as a set.
 

 
 
 
 
 
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I love the bright color combinations you chose.
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