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October 8, 2011 by Tien Chiu

Celebrating nine years of blogging!

Yes, on October 8, 2002, I embarked upon this blogging adventure.  The first six months or so was actually a mailing list that I established for the 100-odd people who wanted to follow my travels through Southeast Asia…then I moved to Blogger, and then again to WordPress.  It’s been nine years now and loving every minute of it!

Meanwhile, I have not been idle…all three blanks for the dark panels are now knitted and dyed.  (One still needs to be rinsed out; the other two are dry and ready to unravel.)  Here’s a pic of the first two blanks for the dark panels:

two knitted blanks, for dark panels
two knitted blanks, for dark panels

I’ve spread out part of one blank so you can see the knitted nature of it.

What’s next?  Tomorrow I’m going to knit up the final two blanks (for the facings/collar), and start weaving up the final bright panel.  Next week I will focus on getting the dark panels and the facings/collar panels woven.  I’m hoping to have all the fabric woven by end of next weekend, following which they will need to be overdyed using fiber-reactive dyes.  With luck I should have all the fabric ready by the next time I see Sharon!

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  1. terri says

    October 10, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    Congratulations on nine years of blogging–here’s to many more!

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