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Shoulder pads

By Tien Chiu | Published: April 22, 2009
I really should have made these before putting on the sleeves and facings, but I made my own shoulder pads today.  It was interesting to contrast them with commercial pads – these are designed for the specific garment, using the pattern pieces for the front and rear shoulders, and (unsurprisingly) they fit a heckuva lot [...]
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Mohair coat, with collar

By Tien Chiu | Published: April 21, 2009
I finished putting the collar and facings on the mohair coat today: I’m moderately pleased with it.  The collar looks nice (good choice of colors), and one lapel is just about perfect.  In the other, however, it seems I didn’t add enough room for turn-of-cloth, and so the mohair fabric is showing behind the collar.  (If [...]
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Coat, partially assembled

By Tien Chiu | Published: April 15, 2009
I was feeling rather blah yesterday, not up to the challenge of working on the coat, so I puttered around dyeing yarns instead.  Then I realized that it wasn’t my mental alertness preventing me from working on the coat, but stark raving terror at the prospect of actually having to DO something with the pieces, [...]
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Dyed yarns for sampling

By Tien Chiu | Published: April 14, 2009
I have not been entirely idle the last day or two; I’ve been dyeing yarn samples for the wedding-dress project.  Here are some of them: The ones to the left of the metallic gold are 60/2 and 70/2 silk; the ones to the right of the metallic gold are approximately the size of 30/2 silk, in [...]
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This and that

By Tien Chiu | Published: April 12, 2009
First, the cool news: Syne Mitchell interviewed me, Claudia, and Alison (my two partners in Weavolution) a few weeks ago, and the interview is now up in the latest Weavecast!  Syne did a fantastic job of editing the interview, so if you want to hear all about Weavolution, go to the latest episode and listen [...]
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