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kareinaI have been enjoying being home--while I have lots and lots on my to-do list, I have no specific time-commitments till I meet mom at the airport next weekend. Granted, Friday and Saturday this has meant a fair bit of time relaxing over cooking good food and reading fiction. I've also played a bit with trying to recreate the turning diagram for the tablet weaving project I started in the class at the Textile forum. The plastic folder with the patterns from that class didn't make it home with me. I had it out of my luggage on Sunday before we went to the train station while I was doing a bit more weaving, so I may have failed to put it back in the bag when I packed up the weaving. I did send an email to the park, but haven't gotten a reply yet.
I had been planning on playing with creating a new version of the pattern in CorelDraw anyway. The format that our teacher uses shows the starting position at the bottom, with the colours and direction of threading of all four holes in each card, then on the top part ovals showing the turning direction and what colour thread will be woven on top next. This was helpful, but when I ran into a problem and needed to try and sort it out and and to get the teacher to help me it occurred to me that the pattern could be improved by adding one more piece of information--the letter of the hole which is on top and closest to the weaver. Then, when trying to get things back to where they should be when problems happen it would be *much* faster.
In the absence of the pattern, but with the short segment that has already been woven I decided to just go for it. I now have something close to correct, but instead of just showing the ovals, I've also put letters on the diagram, and have found that it also makes weaving much easier. I no longer need a marker to show where I am, I can just remember the letter(s) that are up and look to see what comes next. However, I don't think I've got the pattern set up quite right. I am positive that there should be one row in there were all the cards turn forward, but the version I just did doesn't have that. It will be interesting to compare my version with hers when I get it.
I've been having problems with the program Mathmatica--it worked beautifully last week creating graphs from my data on request. This week I get error messages. My boss says that he might be able to help me with it next week. So instead of working on things I want to do with that program (which are essential to have done before we do any papers), I've been focusing on preparing job applications (which won't help with papers for this job, but do have deadlines looming, and I've gotten used to the part about having an income). Perhaps tomorrow I'll work on tasks towards getting things published. Yes, tomorrow (ok, today, but I haven't slept yet) is Sunday. But it is my last weekend I can hope to work before mom arrives. She and I will be doing adventures.
We've got our tickets to Finland for the weekend of 9 October, where we will meet relatives descended from her grandfather's siblings, and see where her grandparents came from. We've also considered a trip to Egypt to visit a cousin of mine who is working there.
I had been planning on playing with creating a new version of the pattern in CorelDraw anyway. The format that our teacher uses shows the starting position at the bottom, with the colours and direction of threading of all four holes in each card, then on the top part ovals showing the turning direction and what colour thread will be woven on top next. This was helpful, but when I ran into a problem and needed to try and sort it out and and to get the teacher to help me it occurred to me that the pattern could be improved by adding one more piece of information--the letter of the hole which is on top and closest to the weaver. Then, when trying to get things back to where they should be when problems happen it would be *much* faster.
In the absence of the pattern, but with the short segment that has already been woven I decided to just go for it. I now have something close to correct, but instead of just showing the ovals, I've also put letters on the diagram, and have found that it also makes weaving much easier. I no longer need a marker to show where I am, I can just remember the letter(s) that are up and look to see what comes next. However, I don't think I've got the pattern set up quite right. I am positive that there should be one row in there were all the cards turn forward, but the version I just did doesn't have that. It will be interesting to compare my version with hers when I get it.
I've been having problems with the program Mathmatica--it worked beautifully last week creating graphs from my data on request. This week I get error messages. My boss says that he might be able to help me with it next week. So instead of working on things I want to do with that program (which are essential to have done before we do any papers), I've been focusing on preparing job applications (which won't help with papers for this job, but do have deadlines looming, and I've gotten used to the part about having an income). Perhaps tomorrow I'll work on tasks towards getting things published. Yes, tomorrow (ok, today, but I haven't slept yet) is Sunday. But it is my last weekend I can hope to work before mom arrives. She and I will be doing adventures.
We've got our tickets to Finland for the weekend of 9 October, where we will meet relatives descended from her grandfather's siblings, and see where her grandparents came from. We've also considered a trip to Egypt to visit a cousin of mine who is working there.
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Date: 2010-09-19 09:59 pm (UTC)However, I've just e-mailed you the patterns, which arrived soon after I made the above comment.