Day 90: When I got to the third and last Halvdräll towel, I decided to change it up a bit, swapping out the dark aqua bouclé for 8/2 cotton. I had dark green on a shuttle, but it didn't seem to work well despite sounding good in principle. The pattern used light blue, white and a dark grey, but I wasn't happy with the appearance of grey with aqua. I dragged several more cones of thread out of my stash, keeping with cool tones at first, but then moving on to warm shades. Bright red came close to the look I wanted, but still wasn't quite there. A darker red solved the problem, although it was not something I would have ever thought to use if I had been planning the project out. That said, I am quite taken with the Halvdräll weave structure, and have two greens and a light yellow picked out for another round. I will be changing the width of each of the three white stripes ( by one pattern repeat of 10 threads in order to make the towels a little less wide. They will be dark green in the next iteration, with light yellow in the wider stripes and light green as the pattern thread throughout.
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