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When I consider my work and academic duties, there’s hardly anything special about it: the work requires some intellectual effort to collect information, then to put it all together and finally write it down or teach about it. Many other scientists in various institutes, archives and museums work in much the same way. One important part of this job is to promote or present your knowledge in front of a group of people. The students forge their opinions about their teachers basing on various circumstances, scientific and non-scientific. One of the factors, as I can remember from my own student days, is the professor’s outfit. I suppose it dates back to the early childhood, when in the kindergarten the lady wearing a glittering pink sweater is much better recognised than someone wearing bland, boring clothes. Keeping in mind my own opinions based on how the professors appeared, I try to prepare myself not only in the intellectual way, but also in terms of looks. So here comes my newes...

In fact this is the place where I could write about anything I like or dislike. And this October I really wanted to write about my current observations concerning wool, but did not have enough strong will. Another reason was that I would rather do it for myself than for the readers or those leaving comments (which makes me think not well about my knitting and about my blog). I’m not so outgoing and talkative, rather more reserved. I've recently knitted quite a number of hats (or more generally headdresses). Some of them (as two berets for my father-in-law) are happilly worn by their owners and I do not have their photos. I made another beret for my son, since he wanted to be as goodlooking as his granddad. I must confess that after so many years of knitting I had a problem with a simple and straight flat crowned hat. I got the proper pattern after four sample hats, which more resembled a potato bag than anything you can possibly wear on top of your head. After that I finished...

I finished the second yoke sweater for the Fruity You and Me KAL about two weeks ago. I’ve also taken some photos but I couldn’t manage to write a post about this cardigan. This time I used my own pattern – the same as in the Flower red yoke for J from my previous post – but I’ve knitted it from bottom up and this is definitely the best way for me. I must confess that decreasing stitches gives me more hope of finishing the project than increasin. The most difficult portion of the yoke is the flower pattern itself and once this part is finished you just have to dive in the the ocean of plain stockinette. Another thing I have changed is the method: I steeked all the front piece instead of cutting only the yoke pattern piece. I was really happy to have finished both sweaters. I enjoyed knitting yoke from up to bottom for the first time, but – as I’ve written – this way is not mine, so after designing the flower pattern I’ve decided to make another yoke cardigan for my...