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On a (paper) roll!

By Tien Chiu | Published: October 15, 2011

I finished unraveling the blank for the first dark panel today, and just love the resulting pirns: And, after an hour and a half of frustration, I succeeded in getting my $15, designed-t0-work-with-Win-98 printer to print with Windows 7, and moreover to print on a roll of paper as its specs advertised.  Here is the [...]

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Celebrating nine years of blogging!

By Tien Chiu | Published: October 8, 2011

Yes, on October 8, 2002, I embarked upon this blogging adventure.  The first six months or so was actually a mailing list that I established for the 100-odd people who wanted to follow my travels through Southeast Asia…then I moved to Blogger, and then again to WordPress.  It’s been nine years now and loving every [...]

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New colors

By Tien Chiu | Published: October 7, 2011

After two mind-numbing days, I’ve knitted two of the three blanks I need for  the dark panels.  As soon as I finish knitting the third (hopefully tomorrow!), I’ll take them out and dye them in the darker colors. Which I have selected, starting from this puddle of samples: and reducing to these nine colors: I’m [...]

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Hey, wow! Math works!

By Tien Chiu | Published: October 5, 2011

I finished the second brightly-colored panel today.  I had calculated (based on my samples) that a 70-needle row was almost exactly equal to a single 23.5″ pick of weft, and that at 64.5 picks per inch, 290 rows should yield 4.5 inches of woven fabric.  And, thus, 11 sections of 290 rows apiece = 11*4.5 [...]

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…but don’t you ever get bored?

By Tien Chiu | Published: October 4, 2011

I was explaining the Autumn Splendor project to a coworker today, and mentioned that I’d been working on it since April.  He said, “Six months and it isn’t done yet?  Don’t you get bored, working on the same thing for months at a time?” The short answer is that no, I don’t.  In fact, quite [...]

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