haberkula

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...

It took me a bit longer than I'd expected to write this post. In fact I wanted to tech edit the patterns before testing. It was my first attempt at finding someone and give him or her (in fact there were only great female knitters) a design which was tech edited before. So I had to try two things for the first time. And I must say I really liked it. I really appreciate the possibility of sharing my knitting methods with others and of having an insight into someone’s plans and dayly knitting routines. One thing I do not like in this kind of cooperation is the way of testing – when you do not have your own Ravelry group – as myself – you should take into account all the terms of free testers' groups. In fact, as a longterm knitter, I do not think it is possible to find a testers' group, buy the stash and finish a larger project in less than four weeks. Sometimes you have to hurry up to do it all in a very short time, otherwise your thread may be closed. Regarding the testi...