Fiber Monday - Christmas in July

I have started weaving the project I showed you the colors for last week. 


I am pretty happy with how it is turning out and it looks much as I had pictured it in my head, which is always satisfying. There's six feet of warp, so I'm hoping to get a couple of dishtowels and four dinner napkins out of it. 

If you briefly wondered why I was only weaving four dinner napkins and since I routinely feed twice that many people, it's because these aren't going to be for personal use. I am starting on making the things I will be selling at the Holiday market this December in an effort to finance my own family's Christmas. I will probably make several sets of dinner napkins. 

I also spent some time figuring out the draft to put holiday figures on the ends of guest towels. Cute guest towels seem like something that could sell well, right? Here's the designs so far. 


These will be a woven border on the towels. For instance, one towel will have trees all the way across. The next step will be to do some experimenting to be sure it works as I think it will. I'm also playing around with the idea of weaving checker boards and selling them with hand painted checkers. So I have a lot of ideas, I'm just not sure I'll have enough time to get them all done. Plus I also have some hand spun I'll selling. 

I won't be making market bags this year, but if you're interested, I still have supplies to make them. (I always have feed bags.) Here's a reminder of what they look like.




I'm happy to take custom orders for them. 


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