Monthly Archives: March 2008

A better satin draft

By Tien Chiu | Published: March 31, 2008
Spent all morning playing around and got to this: (If you want to take a look at the .wif file, you can download it here.) I arrived at this image file by the very simple mechanism of creating two concentric circles in Adobe Illustrator, then trimming it to the size of the artboard to create two concentric [...]
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45 miles; knee pain

By Tien Chiu | Published: March 30, 2008
Only rode about 45 miles yesterday, as I started encountering mild knee pain around mile 20 – probably the result of a tight IT band and/or tight piriformis muscle.  At least, that’s what pain in the outside of the knee usually means.  I stopped, stretched out the IT band and piriformis (and did my quads, [...]
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Satin design breakthrough

By Tien Chiu | Published: March 30, 2008
Spent this morning playing with satin peg-plans, and produced this result (click for full image): It’s nothing fancy or particularly attractive, but it’s more of a proof-of concept, and a brushing up on techniques. I used an expanded advancing twill (as Bonnie suggested) to simplify the threading, then cut and pasted ribbons of 2-3 satin [...]
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Fear and fundraising

By Tien Chiu | Published: March 28, 2008
I sent out my fund-raising letter this morning (actually my second-round fundraising letter since I tucked one in with each box of chocolates I sent out in October) and $600 in donations have come in so far, bringing my total up to $3170!  I’m ecstatic.  I’m also only halfway to my target, so if you [...]
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Next up

By Tien Chiu | Published: March 27, 2008
I’m debating what to do for my next project.  At the moment I have several unfinished tutus, plus the painted warp, plus the peacock-feather tutu.  I think I will focus on the peacock-feather tutu, as I still have to design the threading (a networked satin in all probability) for the painted-warp shawl, and I’m not [...]
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