I decided to make curtains, or linen panels more truthfully, for the living room. Largely because I can. Not because I should.
After many changes in pattern and styles, I settled on a natural linen shade (actually Newport 16/2 Linen) and then am supplementing that with a dk brown, a rust / orange, and a dark green. Pictured here:
![Linen Colors Used in Curtains](https://wldoornik.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/linen-curtains-colors-300x194.jpeg)
Because I’m making three long panels, I have a super long warp chain. The longest I have ever made and it was only after the fact that I had an “oops” moment. I’m not positive it is going on the loom. Picture of it as I’m sleying the reed here:
![The heaviest warp chain I have ever made. 12 yards long. Fingers crossed it all goes on.](https://wldoornik.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Linen-curtains-300x224.jpeg)
During this project planning I did learn from past issues and measured and re-measured the reed before working out my final dimensions. It doesn’t look like I’ll get the 32 inch wide Panels I really need, but I’m locked into this project now, so I may just have to modify the hanging of them. I’ll see once they are done and dusted what I can do with them.
I’ve started threading and I have to say, despite all the dire warnings about working with linen, I am so far loving this yarn:
![Threading started. It's a fairly simply Spot Bronson pattern.](https://wldoornik.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/linen-curtains-threading-300x224.jpeg)
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