November 2024: Turned Atwater Bronson

Woven by Colleen McKinnon

I am always looking for ways to use up my sizable yarn stash accumulated over nearly 40 years of weaving. I love to weave useful, interesting cloth that FUNCTIONS.

This weave structure ticks all the boxes for me. These swatches are cut from a long warp of dish towels destined to be given as gifts. I repeated the Turned Atwater Bronson block 13 times, changing color at the beginning of each block in the warp and the weft. I also added 6 ends of plain weave on each side (1,2) and 1 1/2 inches of plain weave at the beginning and end of each towel.

These towels are highly absorbent. The changing orientation of the floats in this structure make a towel that looks more complex than it really is.

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Structure: Turned Atwater Bronson

Pattern Source:

Strickler, Carol, ed. A Weaver’s Book of 8-Shaft Patterns, 1991 Interweave Press, p 187 #625, contributed by Mary Smith

Kaestner, Tracy, My Very Peri Perfect Towels, Handwoven Magazine Nov/Dec 2022, Vol XLIII Number 5, pp 68-72

Yarns:

22/2 Cottolin warp and weft

Sett:     

20 epi, 21 ppi

Finishing:

These towels were finished by washing with mild soap and dried in the dryer.

Downloads:
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Bio:

Colleen McKinnon’s introduction to weaving came in a 1985 class given by Mary Berent in Boise. She financed her first loom, an 8-harness Gilmore Jack loom, by making and selling 40 teddy bears.  She is still weaving on it! She especially loves weaving useful custom projects to share with family and friends.