{"id":114,"date":"2011-04-10T15:44:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2011-04-10T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:44:18","slug":"kitchen-towels-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Towels, Maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/workingyarn\/5607513210\/\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image from www.flickr.com\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a013486cd6e4e970c014e87626628970d\" src=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c014e87626628970d-800wi\" title=\"image from www.flickr.com\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>These two kitchen towels will maybe, maybe not become kitchen towels. I like them, it&#39;s just that they&#39;re square and rather thick. Perhaps they&#39;ll make a nice kitty blanket for the summer&#8230; We&#39;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>I spotted a $1 sale on Lily Sugar &#39;n Cream cotton yarn and bought a bunch just for fun. I&#39;ve never had much luck making actual household items, and so I figured even my plan of dish towels didn&#39;t work out, they&#39;d probably be useful.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/workingyarn\/5607513646\/\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image from www.flickr.com\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a013486cd6e4e970c014e6086ea89970c\" src=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c014e6086ea89970c-800wi\" title=\"image from www.flickr.com\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I used the Glimakra Emilia and the 8 dent heddle. Just in case you&#39;re wondering, two skeins, 240 yards, is exactly the amount you need to warp 60&quot; on this size loom with this size heddle. However, buy three! You should actually warp 70&quot; or even a little longer to make a real towel.<\/p>\n<p>For the weft I chose a striped green, extremely light. I think my camera is set to overexpose because I haven&#39;t taken a decent picture lately. They aren&#39;t quite as light as the picture shows, but the stripes are gradual. I like the variegated patterns better for towels so next time!<\/p>\n<p>Off the loom, each measured 18&quot; x 20&quot;, but then, after washing, the always-shrinking cotton ended up at 16.5&quot; x 16&quot;. Yes, they are now shorter than wide.<\/p>\n<p>This experiment led me to immediately warp the Emilia with another batch of cotton. My plan this time is for a bathmat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two kitchen towels will maybe, maybe not become kitchen towels. I like them, it&#39;s just that they&#39;re square and rather thick. Perhaps they&#39;ll make a nice kitty blanket for the summer&#8230; We&#39;ll see. I spotted a $1 sale on Lily Sugar &#39;n Cream cotton yarn and bought a bunch just for fun. I&#39;ve never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,33,25,20],"tags":[126,125,105,124,17,43,14],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finished-object","category-glimakra-emilia","category-rigid-heddle-loom","category-weaving-2","tag-cotton","tag-dish-towels","tag-glimakra-emilia-2","tag-kitchen-towels","tag-loom","tag-rigid-heddle","tag-weaving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-1Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}