My first "by myself" weaving!

I'm so excited to be sharing my very first weaving all by myself, at home with my new loom! My first project is washcloths for my student raffle baskets at Camelot. I'm using Lily "Sugar n Cream" yarn (which I'm slightly regretting now - it's a pretty inexpensive yarn and it's showing in little poof balls everywhere. Note to self: buying more expensive yarn is worth it.) The washcloths are white on white in a pattern that I picked out of the extensive pattern book I have. It was a pretty easy pattern to do threading the heddles and the treadle pattern is pretty easy to remember. I'm doing finished, hemmed ends on the washcloths, so I've been putting in about half and inch or so of tabby on each end to be hemmed up. The loom has some quirks, which I was told about before hand, so I knew about them and some of them seem to be fixable. Marc helped out by un-nailing the apron strings for me, so it's the same set up as the Baby Wolf loom I learned on and is much easier for me. I can't wait to start on the towels, which are the same pattern but with color in the warp!

Here's the loom all dressed and ready to go:

And the washcloths, still on the loom.

For some reason, I spaced when I was winding my warp at TYF, but I ended up with a longer warp that I had originally planned for, so I'm going to have at least 3 washcloths off of this warp, rather than the 2 that I had expected. I'll just add the extra one or two into the gift basket! I've finished two, and hopefully I'll cut them off the loom tonight when I finish weaving the third (and maybe fourth). Then they need to be hemmed and washed. I'm so proud of myself!