Tien’s blog

My latest work (I just took it off the loom, haven’t even twisted the fringe yet):

It’s a 3/80 Nm 55/45 silk/cashmere yarn from Colourmart, color “Silver Fox”.  I had Richard wind four strands together, and used the quadrupled strand to warp/weave the fabric.  The warp is the original color, the weft I dyed black.  The [...]

Lorri and I climbed Mt. Diablo yesterday, 3:10 total (I forget how long to the top).  It wasn’t as bad as I was expecting, although there were a fair number of steeper grades (10-13%) on the path from the junction to the summit, and the last 200 meters were, as promised, extremely steep.  I was [...]

After climbing Mt. Diablo on Monday, I felt pretty strong, so when I tackled Mt. Hamilton on Monday, I decided to push the pace a little.  I managed the first hour at 1750 feet/hour!  That’s substantially faster than the 1450 I’d been doing before, managed mostly by staying one notch above granny gear rather than [...]