Ravings from a Danish City at Night

The last few days...

...have been very busy.

Wednesday before last:

• found a job opening for a chemistry/physics teacher 7th to 10th grade at a private primary school in Hjørring
• called and talked to the vice principal
• was invited to an information meeting on friday

Last friday:

• had said information meeting with vice principal and principal
• lasted nearly an hour
• They stated several times that I was a quite promising candidate for the job

Last wednesday:

• former colleague sends me a text, asking if I was interested in a four months part-time position teaching mathematics 11th grade at Aalborg Studenterkursus
• call the vice principal at that school
• am asked to meet him thursday

Last thursday:

• nervous as heck
• meet with vice principal
• get the job on the spot
• get keys
• get rfid chip and code for alarm
• get books

Last friday:

• meet my 'mentor', a future colleague who will be guiding and introducing me to the school and the subject.

So, from monday on I'm employed again. As a mathematics teacher, which I can teach with my M.Sc. in engineering. 450 hours, 150 of which are classes, from now til New Years, with a possible tenure position after that.

I'm freaking happy! 

 

Rowan 52

I bought it on amazon.co.uk and I'm satisfied.

Good number of menswear patterns, for once I'm tempted to say, but that is my experience with Rowan.

Some interesting accessory patterns too. Very nice fairisle throw by Martin Storey...

So, this one is a keeper, Rowan.

Rowan

After some 11 years with the Rowan Knitting Magazine I've decided not to renew my membership. Simply too much hassle the last time.

They'd sent the magazines and the gift to my old address even though I'd changed delivery to my new, current address on the website.

Also, there was a decided lack of patterns for men lately (Number 52 now being an exception), so I'll buy the magazine if I like what's in it, if not, well, then I won't.

 

25 Shades of Logwood Purple

More pictures on my flickr photostream

And sold!!

The Quebracho Red set is sold!

25 dyed skeins plus one undyed went to a new home for 1200.- kr, roughly about US$200/GB£120.

Two new sets, Logwood Purple and Logwood Grey, are in the dyepot.

Opening soon....

See you on Etsy soon!

If you need some colour in your life,

do like I did and dye some yarn.

I had some tapestry-weight embroidery wool lying around doing nothing, 25 skeins ecru all-in-all.

So a trip through my library into Jenny Dean's 'Wild Color', my electric canning pot, some Quebracho Red extract and some chemicals and now I have a variety of colours.

More info about this on my Flickr Photostream and on my Facebook Page. Solgaarden, 'the sunny place', is the co-op building I live in now and Håbdspinderi mean handspinning manufactory.

I'm also thinking about opening an Etsy shop again to seel my handspun and handdyed yarns. Still not sure about the name though. I'm down to these:

1. I Spun This
2. ThomasSpun
3. Useful Yarns

What do you think?

The score sofar:

6 applications sent out

2 'received' without further comment, 1 'you're very interesting, but position filled'.

I'll keep plodding on.

Meanwhile I've decided to sit down every evening and spin at my minispinner for two hours. Might as well make a dent in my fibre supply.

Today...

...I filed for unemployment.

So understandably not in the best of moods.

The last six months have been some of the worst in my life sofar. Not going to share the details with everyone. Just keeping the darkness inside me at bay has been a job-and-a-half in itself

It's a crewel, crewel world.

Every year I try to learn a new craft. So again this year.

I wanted something that had some overlap with my previous crafts, knitting, weaving, spinning, bookbinding. So it would probably be something from within the textile craft sphere.

I made a decision, read a lot online, bought some books, bought some material and got started.

Today I finished my first object in this new craft of mine: crewel embroidery.

A sampler of different stitches over a mehndi/henna tattoo pattern from the internet. Not quite satisfied with everything. That blue blob for example should have been ripped out and re-stitched. But I'll leave it as it is.  On the other hand the trellis stitching in the red central leaf shape went very well.

I see this as a learning piece to come back to and see what I did OK and what I can improve.

So, what's your new craft for this summer?