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Chicago, Convergence, and profile drafts

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 29, 2009

Today I am flying to Chicago, where I will be spending several days with Mike’s family before flying home to California.  Because of the airport “security crackdown” (which I think is laughable, but let’s not go there), we’re going to the airport earlier than usual.  Since the Funky Hat is already finished, that means working [...]

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Several successes

By Tien Chiu | Published: October 5, 2009

Thanks to Bonnie’s suggestion (thanks Bonnie!), I figured out how to make the eternity knot into a turned double-two-tie unit weave!  Here’s the profile draft: And here’s the fiddled-with, turned, etc. version: And, finally, the .wif file, in case anyone’s interested in a closer look.  I’m not 100% sure I have it right, but it [...]

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Yet more doodling with huck lace

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 13, 2009

Today I played in the tie-up.  I discovered that vertical and horizontal lines make, not too surprisingly, horizontal and vertical lines respectively.  Then I started playing around with curves, and realized that (in general) if you make your lines parallel to each other, they will produce “echoes” of each other, making for a pleasing, repeating [...]

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More doodling with network drafted huck lace

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 11, 2009

Following Bonnie’s advice, I tried playing with interleaved drafts and block substitutions in Fiberworks PCW.  I couldn’t get interleaved drafts working since the interleaving would be A-B-A-A-B-A (where A is one draft and B is the other) and I couldn’t figure out how to do that in PCW, but the block substitutions worked great.  So [...]

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Doodling with network drafted huck lace

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 7, 2009

After playing Chocolatier for way too long this morning, I got to messing around with something I’ve wanted to understand for awhile, network drafted huck lace.  Out came my trusty copy of Network Drafting: An Introduction, and off I went! I actually wanted to play around with tie-up and treadling, rather than using the ribbon [...]

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