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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Woven Chinese calligraphy
I couldn’t sleep this morning (my body wakes me up at 5-6am regardless of when I went to sleep) so I decided to play around with drafts while waiting for everyone else to get up. I started playing with a very blocky double-happiness symbol, thinking that would be easier to manage:
It’s a symmetric design, which [...]
Eternity knot
I had a lovely Christmas (which I find amusing, since I’m a mostly-lapsed Wiccan and the entire rest of my family is devoutly atheist – but, as my mom says, “No good Chinese person would turn down an opportunity for a celebration!). Actually three Christmases, one with my brother, his wife, and my mom; one [...]
A better pretty
I went back to the Celtic knots from yesterday and realized that the lines were all conflicting, so I discarded the stripes and produced this pattern, which I like a LOT better:
Not appropriate for the coat, perhaps, but it would make a very lovely cloth. Not sure just what yet, but this one I like [...]
Three-strand braid
Continuing the Celtic motif, I did a three strand braid in two variations this morning as well. The top one has sharp corners and the bottom one has round corners.
I don’t like this braid as much as the four-strand braid, but it’s interesting to play with. There are some other neat tricks you can play [...]



Japanese crests in Photoshop