If you've haven't been following the story, I set myself a deadline of three weeks to complete Level 1 of the TKGA Masters in Hand Knitting. I completed it just under the wire and mailed it out the following day. My completed binder, filled with swatches, my report, answers, final project and a lot of hope then took a very slow boat trip across the Atlantic. I was just starting to worry that the binder had been lost in transit when thankfully I received a confirmation that the binder had arrived safely in Zanesville, Ohio - an excruciating 9 weeks later! What a relief!
I was hoping to get my binder back before my one month trip to the U.S., but as my departure date approached I resolved myself to a month long wait before knowing one way or the other if I had passed. Extremely jet lagged (imagine one parent, international flight, two small children, no naps) I got the girls tucked into bed at Grandma's house and checked my email to discover the precious binder and I had crossed somewhere over the Atlantic and it was making it's way back to the Netherlands. The committee chair who reviewed my notebook was considerate of the mail delays and very kindly emailed my review.
The news was good. All of my swatches passed, some with flying colors. Some with notes. One of the things I need to focus on in future levels is that my cast on can be too loose. I guess that says a little something about overcompensating!
I've got a feeling my hat passed with more than a good helping of generosity from the reviewers. I may decide to reknit it or perhaps work the ends in again to address the notes.
My report passed! My answers to the questions were accepted bar two. For some unknown reason I started calling the lifted increase a lifted bar increase. Who knows why. Easy fix. I also somehow lost parts b, c, and d to question 8! Lost perhaps when Microsoft Word crashed and I reopened the "recovered" document. Luckily, I had good photos of the swatches online and could answer the missing parts to the question without waiting to have the notebook and swatches in my hands. Grandma bribed the girls with Hershey's Kisses to play upstairs and give me a few hours to complete the questions and resubmit.
I heard back within a day that my resubmitted questions had been accepted and I've officially passed Level 1! WHhheeee! Now on to Level 2. I've ordered the materials and started reading. Level 2 is intimidating. There are more swatches, more projects, more difficult techniques, more written work, and reports. Argyle socks! Fair Isle Mittens! Advanced techniques... I'm just going to take it one step and a time. When it's broken down to it's smallest component steps, each piece can't be THAT hard. It's just a matter of taking it one little step at a time until it's done.
I was hoping to get my binder back before my one month trip to the U.S., but as my departure date approached I resolved myself to a month long wait before knowing one way or the other if I had passed. Extremely jet lagged (imagine one parent, international flight, two small children, no naps) I got the girls tucked into bed at Grandma's house and checked my email to discover the precious binder and I had crossed somewhere over the Atlantic and it was making it's way back to the Netherlands. The committee chair who reviewed my notebook was considerate of the mail delays and very kindly emailed my review.
The news was good. All of my swatches passed, some with flying colors. Some with notes. One of the things I need to focus on in future levels is that my cast on can be too loose. I guess that says a little something about overcompensating!
I've got a feeling my hat passed with more than a good helping of generosity from the reviewers. I may decide to reknit it or perhaps work the ends in again to address the notes.
My report passed! My answers to the questions were accepted bar two. For some unknown reason I started calling the lifted increase a lifted bar increase. Who knows why. Easy fix. I also somehow lost parts b, c, and d to question 8! Lost perhaps when Microsoft Word crashed and I reopened the "recovered" document. Luckily, I had good photos of the swatches online and could answer the missing parts to the question without waiting to have the notebook and swatches in my hands. Grandma bribed the girls with Hershey's Kisses to play upstairs and give me a few hours to complete the questions and resubmit.
I heard back within a day that my resubmitted questions had been accepted and I've officially passed Level 1! WHhheeee! Now on to Level 2. I've ordered the materials and started reading. Level 2 is intimidating. There are more swatches, more projects, more difficult techniques, more written work, and reports. Argyle socks! Fair Isle Mittens! Advanced techniques... I'm just going to take it one step and a time. When it's broken down to it's smallest component steps, each piece can't be THAT hard. It's just a matter of taking it one little step at a time until it's done.
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