Last night, I pulled out the left front panel of the cardigan to show Number Guy. He was suitably impressed with how the ribs now flow into the cables instead of abruptly stopping and picking up again someplace else. While I was admiring my handiwork, I was also describing to Number Guy how on the first go around that I thought that I might have made a mistake because the cables didn't seem to be crossing exactly as a Celtic knot does. Then I gasped.
The cables in the current cardigan construction do not comply with the credo of the Celtic knots.
I pulled out the charts and started carefully examining them. I also called up the project pages over on Ravelry to examine other knitters' work.
Fortunately for my sanity, I am following the charts correctly. It turns out that this pattern does not precisely follow the rules of the Celtic knots. Instead, it rather, sort of approximates them.
My inner knitter is currently coping by stroking the ruffled feathers of my Celtic genetics and assuring my inner Celt that it is okay to allow some strands to participate in an unholy unorthodox under-over-over pattern occasionally.
We are experiencing an uneasy truce here, but I am supporting my inner knitter on this one since the only other alternative would be to rework each and every bit of the main chart and, at the moment, I'd rather knot.
In completely unrelated news, I checked my college email account this afternoon and turned up a real winner...
To: professor trek
From: Student With Comprehension Issues
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For the ethics research paper we pretty much just write about anything about the subject?
Oh, yeah, sure. Write about anything you like. It isn't like I expected you to follow the directions I provided at great length and in excruciating detail during the very first class meeting.
From: prof trek
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No. You look up your topic on the syllabus. Topics are defined in the grid on the last page of the syllabus and topics are assigned corresponding to the first letter of your last name. The information you need to start your term paper research is in the textbook.
Any student who turns in a term paper on the wrong subject automatically earns a zero.
Yes, I did feel it necessary to add that last sentence as a warning shot across the bow: I have had at least one student a semester so far turn in a term paper which was off-topic in one way or another..
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Obviously you will need to design a cabled project that follows the rules of Celtic knots. :)
Even the Celts occasionally designed a pattern that didn't follow the rules perfectly. But I feel your pain.
um prof trek?? which textbook are you referring to, I just want to be sure I have the right one. Was it given to us when classes started or was I supposed to get it somewhere? I mean I don;t want to get a zero or look like a zero.
hahahahahahahahaha
(JK)
I never knew that about Celtic knots, fascinating! *files the info away in her brain*
I feel the warning shot is justified. I too am waiting the email asking about the book! :P
Huh? You mean I can't write anything about anything? That seems picky. I wrote something. My mom told me that I get credit for trying so I don't see why I shouldn't also get college credit.
Would it help if my Mom wrote a note?
Wait, you mean you make them write on an assigned topic? ;)
It good to hear that your inner knitter and inner Celt have come to a truce. Reworking the chart does not sound like fun.
It gives me confidence in the future that college students listen so carefully to instructions and will soon be in charge of the country when I am old and feeble and no longer to look out for myself. Not! I am shopping around for a cave to hide in. One with stash-room, of course.
My dear professoring husband gave an in-lab programming quiz, with electronic submission. He warned the students several times that if they didn't turn anything in before the deadline, they'd get a 0, you can turn it in more than once and it overwrites previous, yadda yadda. He announced at the 10, 5, 1 minute and 30 second warning, keeping time with the same machine that shut the submission directory. He still had 3 students look up and say "I didn't get mine in." Sigh. But hey, it's a growing experience, right? Right?
You mean on an Ethics paper, your going to insist that they display some??
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