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March 22, 2007 by Tien Chiu

Started weaving

I have finally managed to get the warp threaded onto the loom and have started weaving my first design – a simple 2/2/1/3 twill that I designed in WeaveDesign, a freeware program for constructing weaving drafts.  It’s coming out a bit warp-faced, so I think I sett it a little too closely; I’ll know better next time.  I’m still getting a feel for this, you know.

Anyway, the twill is producing long diagonal stripes, as twills do – not very exciting yet, but this is just the beginning.  I’m really excited at the prospect of doing more weaving exercises – I have ten yards of warp so have plenty of space to experiment.  And I have another “rest day” tomorrow so I might actually have TIME to weave!

There is one other project I’ve been working on that has been soaking up most of my time for the last week or so.  I can’t talk about it just yet, but I think it’ll finish up in the next 2-3 weeks.  Which would be nice.

Meanwhile, I continue to weave, and I continue to train.  I’m kind of worried about where I am in training right now – everyone else who seems to be doing the Death Ride is doing about double the ride length/difficulty that I am – but then, I only started training three weeks ago, so perhaps I’ll be able to catch up some of that time.  I still have 3.5 months left to train.  I got ready for the AIDS Ride in 7 weeks, back the first time I did it, so nothing’s impossible.

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