Day 161: It's official. The actual weaving of Norse Kitchen has begun. This is a rather complicated overshot with a wide border on all four sides, and a center section which can be made with any number of repeats. That is just one of the constraints I had to deal with when laying it out. Because I am weaving it on the table loom, it couldn't be wider than 24 inches. Since that is rather wide for a hand towel, I elected to go with 20 inches, which meant that the center section could only have six repeats if I used a sett of 24 epi (ends per inch) for 10/2 cotton warp. A wider sett would have meant fewer repeats, and I really wanted at least six. The narrower sett is making the design taller than it is shown in the book (a wider sett would have allowed the weft to pack more tightly), and I figure the center motifs will be closer to square than being wide diamonds, but there ya go. It's all about compromise. I was pleased to see that I had threaded it correctly (every weaver's worst nightmare is a mistake in threading a complicated piece). The tabby is 10/2 with 8/2 cotton for the overshot design. Norse Kitchen appears on page 186 of "A Handweaver's Pattern Book" by Marguerite Porter Davison (green version).
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