Tag Archives: color changes

Wowza.

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 13, 2009
I spent all day yesterday weaving like a maniac, using 24 different colors fading from fuchsia to electric blue, and then back again, in the larger goose-eye pattern.  Then I cut it off the loom, looked at it, and… …words fail me. Unfortunately, so do photos – it doesn’t look nearly as good in the photos as [...]
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Woven iridescence

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 11, 2009
Today I finished threading, sleying, tying on, and weaving the first two feet or so of the fabric.  I’ve been experimenting with a variety of weft colors, and ALL of them have come out gorgeous – something I had totally not expected given a bright orange warp.  Even the faded-denim blue which I used for [...]
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Finished!

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 15, 2009
(Yes, I know, prolific today.  But bear with me!) Just finished the last of the yardage (38″, not bad for leftover warp) and cut both pieces off the loom.  Here are photos: I don’t really like this shawl (yet, at least; we’ll see how I feel after wet-finishing it) – there’s simply too much going on.  I [...]
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Progress report

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 15, 2009
After a couple of days in the creative doldrums, I finally got off my butt and started weaving again.  I wove nearly four feet yesterday, completing my final shawl and (since I had a little bit of warp left) launching into yardage.  So far I’ve woven two feet of yardage and think I can get [...]
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Master Chocolatier

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 12, 2009
Just finished the  PlayFirst game Chocolatier.  Now maybe I can get back to my life.  Still weaving off the color-changing shawl, not much new to report.  It turns out that I will run out of yarn before the end of the shawl, so I’m going to use the short-repeat (tiger stripes) yarn to fill [...]
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