I love weaving for many reasons, but one of the cool things about it is that it's pretty easy for even a beginner to make up original designs and play around to make something new and interesting.One fun way for a weaver to personalize a design is something called a name draft. You can use a name or phrase of some sort and assign blocks to each letter (i.e. some of the letters of the alphabet will end up a blue block, some will end up a white block in this example.) Then when you repeat the letter blocks across the width and length of the piece, it will hopefully make a pleasing design.
The story for these particular towels starts with a friend of mine that I've known for a couple of decades (yes, I'm that old.) When I reconnected with him two months ago, he was in a real transition period in his life, just settling into a new place and starting anew. I thought it might be a nice idea to make him a little housewarming gift, and wrote up a draft for these towels. It took a while to get the appropriate yarn in the mail, but once I did, I started them right away. A bit of a hiatus while I was away in Jasper, and while I was working on more time-sensitive stuff, meant that they didn't get finished as quickly as they could have. I had them off the loom a few days ago, and hand sewed the hems down. Tonight I finally managed to get them washed and ironed and photographed so they're ready to go. By the time he gets them, he'll be well-settled into his new place, but hopefully he'll like them, nevertheless.
