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    The document provides the warp color orders and threading instructions for three different towel projects: 1. A purple towel with an 8-shaft threading and color order including blue, purple, periwinkle, and lime yarns. 2. Orange and purple towels with a 6-shaft threading and color order including periwinkle, purple, orange, pink, and gold yarns. 3. Orange towels with a 10-shaft threading and color order including orange, gold, dark orange, peach, coral, burgundy, lime, and teal space-dyed yarns.

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    The document provides the warp color orders and threading instructions for three different towel projects: 1. A purple towel with an 8-shaft threading and color order including blue, purple, periwinkle, and lime yarns. 2. Orange and purple towels with a 6-shaft threading and color order including periwinkle, purple, orange, pink, and gold yarns. 3. Orange towels with a 10-shaft threading and color order including orange, gold, dark orange, peach, coral, burgundy, lime, and teal space-dyed yarns.

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    Kaestner Happy Towels

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    The document provides the warp color orders and threading instructions for three different towel projects: 1. A purple towel with an 8-shaft threading and color order including blue, purple, periwinkle, and lime yarns. 2. Orange and purple towels with a 6-shaft threading and color order including periwinkle, purple, orange, pink, and gold yarns. 3. Orange towels with a 10-shaft threading and color order including orange, gold, dark orange, peach, coral, burgundy, lime, and teal space-dyed yarns.

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    TRACY KAESTNER

    Warp color orders for Happy Towels!


    1. Warp color order for purple towel (at right and at the bottom, page 2)
    3x 3x
    Blue #2055 (Bockens) Purple #2026 (Bockens) Periwinkle #2067 (Bockens) LIme #332 (Borgs) hand-dyed 8 8 7 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 3 3 2 1 1
    / / / / / / /

    164 40 1 1 40 40 1 1 40 180 20 10 10 30 30 10 10 20 80 20 20 20 20 44 1 9 1 9 9 1 9 1 78 4 4 10 4 4 4 4 10 4 4 4 4 10 4 4 546 On eight shafts, thread all ends on shafts 1-2-3-4 except where diagonals are indicated below the 4 and 10 numbers. These are threaded: 5-6-7-8 ( ), 8-7-6-5 ( ), or 8-7-6-5-4-3-5-6-7-8 ( ). Shafts 14 weave plain weave, 58 twill.

    8 6 5 4 2

    On six shafts, thread all ends on shafts 1-2 except where diagonals are indicated. For the two twill directions, thread 3-4-5-6 and 6-5-4-3. Thread the 10-end twill groups 6-5-4-3-2-1-3-4-5-6.

    6 6 6 5 5 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 1 1
    /

    2. Warp color order for orange and purple towels (at left and at the top, page 2)
    5x 5x 3x 2x 5x 5x 2x 3x 5x 5x
    2 6 6 10 10 10 10 6 6 2 Periwinkle #2067 84 88 16 20 16 20 16 hand-dyed 60 1 9 9 9 9 1 Dk Purple #167 Gold #2013 50 1 6 2 2 2 2 6 1 32 6 2 2 6 Pink #2022 44 6 2 6 6 2 6 Purple #2026 122 20 1 6 7 7 2 2 7 7 6 1 20 Orange #2015 479 All yarns are 22/2 cottolin from Bockens.

    The orange and purple towels (above) and the orange towels (at right) are all woven in plain weave. 3. Warp color order for orange towels (above right and at the center, page 2)
    5x 6x 3x 2x 5x 5x 2x 3x 6x 5x
    Orange #2015 Gold #2050 Dk. Orange #317 Peach#2075 Coral #2626 Burgundy #2023 Lime #2042 Teal #2033 16/2 space-dyed LE12
    6 945 yd 108 20 6 7 7 7 7 20 368 yd 42 1 6 2 2 6 1 1 6 6 1 193 yd 22 315 yd 36 2 6 6 2 648 yd 74 2 6 2 9 9 2 6 2 630 yd 72 6 10 10 10 10 6 88 yd 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 88 yd 10 2 1 1 2 954 yd 109 20 30 9 30 20 4,229 yd 483 3

    For complete project directions and tips for designing and weaving Happy Towels, see Handwoven, March/ April 2011, pp. 5253.

    Yarn amounts at far left are for both warp and weft with weft amounts calculated at we av ingto d ay.com

    warp amounts with extra for playing.

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