Day 78: Now that they are off the loom, I think I may have been too harsh in my judgment of the Towels From Hell. The draft ("A German Bird's Eye," p. 20, HPB green edition) didn't look like it wanted to work with the colours I'd chosen for warp stripes, and I kept changing colours of weft to try to find something I liked. For the last towel (the green one), I devised a new treadling to make a "double diamond," however, now that they're no longer under tension and stretched across open space, the bird's-eye pattern is more obvious in the yellow and blue versions. The black and dark blue wefts bring out the green warps more. The reds...well, I'm still not too taken with either of them (one red is darker than the other). Still, the project wasn't the complete disaster I'd feared it was going to be. Now I'm ready to move on to halvdräll. The warp is already measured and waiting to be hung.
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