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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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Contrast between knitted blanks

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 9, 2009
I dyed the second half of the knitted blank yesterday, and wove up part of it on my lunch hour.  This one I did not do in regular stripes, instead I did it in blobs of color. The intent was to provide more organic shapes than straight lines.  The first blank, which you may recall looked [...]
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Another knitted blank sample

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 4, 2009
I decided to try another experiment with knitted blanks, this time using stripes of color.  I had intended on distinct vertical stripes of red, orange, and yellow, but because the dyes bled into each other I got a gradual transition.  Fine by me! Here is the sample: And here is what it looks like woven up: The photo [...]
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Experiment with knitted blanks

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 3, 2009
I pulled out one of Nancy’s blanks today, and did the experiment I’ve been itching to do for awhile.  This blank was knitted up to have each row almost precisely the same length as the length of a single weft shot, the idea being that if you got it precisely right, you could line up [...]
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