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In theory I am on 1/4 time at work these days. In reality I am still working full time, just not getting paid for it, but progress is happening, and, with luck, I will eventually get far enough along to actually get some of that time off as well, off. In the past week I have met with my Master's student, and he has a plan (and he did an additional meeting with his supervisors at the mine today, so I am looking forward to hearing how that went), I have solved a problem my computer was having with the uni sync program (which, it turns out doesn't like encrypted files, though how that particular file became encrypted in the first place, I will never know, since it shouldn't have been, nor does it like really long path names, so now I know a way to use the command prompt to find every file name longer than a certain length, so I can change them), figured out a likely shape for the strain ellipsoid we should be using for the structural trend of our geological models, incorporated edits from my colleague to the paper, enrolled in the Swedish for Immigrants course which should start in February (and did all of the email exchanges to take care of that in Swedish!), and discovered, much to my delight, that once one creates a movie in Leapfrog any changes made to the interpolations can be added to the movie by simply pressing the "refresh scenes" button and then doing a new export (preferably with a new file name) to recreate the movie.
However, in addition to working, I am also sewing! Since the weather has been deliciously cold (between -20 and -30 C) I decided that it was finally time to make the fur muff that I have been meaning to make ever since I finished the fur lined hood last winter. Therefore I started cutting the fur on Friday, and managed to finish it on Sunday. Then I decided the strap needed to be a different length, so I cut it off today and re-finished it this evening. In total the project took me 11 hours and 22 minutes, but 2.5 of those hours was re-doing the strap length, so in theory, if I ever want to do one of these again I should be able to manage it in under 9 hours, unless I decide to decorate it with embroidery in addition to a tablet woven band for a strap.
The weaving for this strap was done by my friend in Trondheim--this is some of the loot I brought home from that geology conference in Lund. I am very pleased with how it came out.
With luck I will also get a photo of me wearing it, but that will be better done during the day, and outside, so you will have to wait until an opportunity presents itself.
And, having taken those photos off of the phone, I also have one of the slippers that I made at the conference. Well, mostly at the conference--they were nearly done on the flight home, but I ran out of yarn with 30 minutes to go in the flight, so I didn't finish them till the day after the conference.
However, in addition to working, I am also sewing! Since the weather has been deliciously cold (between -20 and -30 C) I decided that it was finally time to make the fur muff that I have been meaning to make ever since I finished the fur lined hood last winter. Therefore I started cutting the fur on Friday, and managed to finish it on Sunday. Then I decided the strap needed to be a different length, so I cut it off today and re-finished it this evening. In total the project took me 11 hours and 22 minutes, but 2.5 of those hours was re-doing the strap length, so in theory, if I ever want to do one of these again I should be able to manage it in under 9 hours, unless I decide to decorate it with embroidery in addition to a tablet woven band for a strap.
The weaving for this strap was done by my friend in Trondheim--this is some of the loot I brought home from that geology conference in Lund. I am very pleased with how it came out.
With luck I will also get a photo of me wearing it, but that will be better done during the day, and outside, so you will have to wait until an opportunity presents itself.
And, having taken those photos off of the phone, I also have one of the slippers that I made at the conference. Well, mostly at the conference--they were nearly done on the flight home, but I ran out of yarn with 30 minutes to go in the flight, so I didn't finish them till the day after the conference.