Tien Chiu

  • Home
  • About Tien
    • Honors, Awards, and Publications
  • Online Teaching
  • Gallery
  • Essays
  • Travels
  • Book
  • Blog
  • Dye samples
You are here: Home / All blog posts / Ribbon yarn and kid mohair
Previous post: Merry Xmas to all!
Next post: Crabs and children

December 27, 2006 by Tien Chiu

Ribbon yarn and kid mohair

I’ve just ordered some ribbon yarn from Webs year-end closeout sale, which features some incredible deals.  I’ve never tried weaving with ribbon yarn before, but I figure it should weave up quickly and be quite beautiful.  I’m tempted to buy some closeout rayon yarn so as not to waste the silk, but considering the vast quantity of yarn I now have, I figure I should use that up before purchasing more cheap yarns.  Perhaps I’ll warp it with cotton.

Meanwhile, I am making rapid progress on my lace kid mohair shawl – almost a foot so far. This is all the more impressive since it’s knitted in a fairly complex entrelac pattern, so knits up rather slowly.  But then, I’ve had a LOT of blank time to fill in with knitting.  Rather restful really – it’s been awhile since I’ve had this much time that wasn’t in a hurry.  We will try marbling today, and perhaps I’ll get some photos.  Unfortunately I can’t upload anything right now, lacking anything that would read my digital camera’s card.  If I get the time to write up a description of marbling, I’ll post it to my website.

I hope everyone is having a great holiday week, and that you have a chance to get some rest.  Fortunately my relatives (apparently unlike everyone else’s relatives, from the blogs I read) are not squabbling, so it’s a great week for me.

Share this post!

  • Tweet
  • More
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Share on Tumblr
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print

Filed Under: All blog posts

Previous post: Merry Xmas to all!
Next post: Crabs and children

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Archives

Tags

aids lifecycle outfits autumn splendor book cashmere coat cats celtic braid coat color study cross dyeing design design class devore doubleweave doubleweave shawls drawing dye samples dye study group gradient colors house infinite warp jacquard loom katazome knitted blanks kodachrome jacket ma's memorial mohair coat network drafted jacket/shawl project network drafting painted warp phoenix rising phoenix rising dress phoenix rising kimono phoenix rising reloaded pre-weavolution project sea turtles taquete tie-dye tied weaves tomatoes velvet weaving drafts web design website redesign wedding wedding dress woven shibori

Categories

  • Africa
  • aids lifecycle
  • All blog posts
  • All travel posts
  • Asia
  • Bangkok
  • Belize
  • Cambodia
  • Central America
  • Chai Ya (Wat Suon Mok)
  • Chiang Mai
  • Chiang Rai (Akha)
  • China
  • chocolate
  • computer stuff
  • creating craft
  • Creative works
  • cycling
  • Delhi
  • Dharamsala
  • drawing
  • dyeing
  • Fiber Arts
  • finished
  • food
  • garden
  • Ghana
  • Guatemala
  • Hanoi
  • Ho Chi Minh City
  • Hoi An
  • India
  • Khao Lak
  • Knitting
  • knitting
  • Ko Chang
  • Laos
  • Luang Namtha
  • Luang Prabang
  • markleeville death ride
  • meditations on craft
  • mental illness
  • musings
  • Phnom Penh
  • powerlifting
  • Rewalsar (Tso Pema)
  • sewing
  • Siem Reap (Angkor Wat)
  • Southeast Asia
  • surface design
  • textiles
  • Thailand
  • travel
  • Vangvieng
  • Vientiane
  • Vietnam
  • Warp & Weave
  • weaving
  • Weaving
  • weavolution
  • writing

© Copyright 2025 Tien Chiu · All Rights Reserved ·