Monthly Archives: November 2007

Possibly the coolest thing since sliced bread

By Tien Chiu | Published: November 30, 2007
Bonnie and I spent 2 hours going through network drafting yesterday, and I’ve been playing with it since well before dawn.  (Admittedly, dawn is kinda late these days.)  It turns out that network drafting is infinitely easier using Fiberworks PCW, a different weaving program – actually there are a lot of things you simply can’t [...]
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Puttering around

By Tien Chiu | Published: November 29, 2007
I spent most of yesterday suffering weaver’s block – the condition where you aren’t quite sure what to do, so you wind up doing nothing.  Well, not quite nothing – I did resolve most of my questions – but basically sit around and let things ferment.  I’m not sure what exactly I did for most [...]
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Added tag support

By Tien Chiu | Published: November 28, 2007
I made some changes to my Wordpress templates today – the one you’re most likely to notice is that I’ve added tag support.  I’m not about to go back and retag almost 600 posts, but I’ll be tagging in the future, so anyone who’s interested can read about a specific project or topic rather than [...]
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Frustrations

By Tien Chiu | Published: November 28, 2007
Things are going frustratingly on all of my projects at the moment: The sleeves are too short on the cocoon jacket, a byproduct of my loom being so narrow. I was fiddling with it last night and haven’t found a good solution – after much fussing I am seriously contemplating using a different pattern altogether. [...]
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New project: network drafted/"orange peel" shawls

By Tien Chiu | Published: November 26, 2007
I’m starting work on my next project, a set of network drafted shawls using a fairly simple threading pattern: a pair of opposing elliptical arcs 48 pixels high and telescoped (sliced and overlapped) to 16 pixels high so it fits on my loom. The net effect is a double elliptical curve with “echoes”. Then, taking the same [...]
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