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Slow progress

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 10, 2007

I have been making progress, albeit of a slow and not very glamorous sort. Mike’s cold is slowing me down and making me feel “stobbed ubside by head”, although I didn’t get it as badly as he did. Nonetheless, I have been making progress, especially in understanding network drafting. Bonnie and I have been trading [...]

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Tiger eye shawl FINALLY finished…

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 13, 2007

Eight months after weaving it, I have FINALLY finished the beaded fringe on the tiger eye shawl.  I had bought some gorgeous tiger striped lampwork beads from Gayle Herring, and was looking for the perfect beads to complement them in the fringe.  On my trip to Maryland, my mom and I went to a bead [...]

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Samples

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 18, 2007

I finished dyeing the samples last night, none of which came out exactly as I was visualizing. The beige turned out to be a peachy color of the sort Crayola used to call “flesh” (before remembering that dark brown and yellow-tinted people existed too). The dark brown turned out a dark purply-brown, not quite eggplant [...]

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Echo weave; leaving for Chicago

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 21, 2007

I have started getting into echo weave, inspired by an article Bonnie Inouye wrote for the current issue of Handwoven. (Yes, I subscribe to Handwoven – I’m not enthused by the recipe nature of the magazine, but they’re virtually the only game in town, and they also occasionally get into structure, so I think it’s [...]

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Weaving, minor electronics, weaving database

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 28, 2007

I finally gave in and bought an electric cone winder to spare my shoulder the endless circular movements of ball-winding with very fine yarns (it took almost two hours for the fire shawl!). I promptly discovered that the ballwinder starts up too fast for fine cashmere yarns – the yarn breaks as the swift starts [...]

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