Tien’s blog

Spent all morning playing around and got to this:

(If you want to take a look at the .wif file, you can download it here.)
I arrived at this image file by the very simple mechanism of creating two concentric circles in Adobe Illustrator, then trimming it to the size of the artboard to create two concentric [...]

Only rode about 45 miles yesterday, as I started encountering mild knee pain around mile 20 - probably the result of a tight IT band and/or tight piriformis muscle.  At least, that’s what pain in the outside of the knee usually means.  I stopped, stretched out the IT band and piriformis (and did my quads, [...]

Spent this morning playing with satin peg-plans, and produced this result (click for full image):

It’s nothing fancy or particularly attractive, but it’s more of a proof-of concept, and a brushing up on techniques. I used an expanded advancing twill (as Bonnie suggested) to simplify the threading, then cut and pasted ribbons of 2-3 satin [...]