Friday, June 12, 2009
Getting knotted
I'm spending a lot of time playing with knotwork.
One of the backlog scrolls I'm working on is a Lindquistring, the badge of which is a dragon coiled into a ring holding a jewel. It occurred to me that it should be possible to do this as a Book of Kells/Book of Durrow/Lindisfarne Gospels style knotwork beastie. I've got one full sketch done but I'm not too keen on the dragon's body, so I'm thinking of trying another one as a pure knotwork ring with a section cut out to hold the dragon's head, feet and gem. I hope to get it done this weekend once I've got over the formalities of graduation tomorrow morning.
We had the rehearsal for that this evening; I'm handing out the certificates for computing, as usual. I was greatly amused to see a number of the girls wearing 'dress' shoes but carrying their trainers - clearly they had decided that either the shoes needed breaking in or that they needed to make sure that they could manage the steps to and from the stage without falling over. My other service was to pronounce the non-Icelandic graduates' names (we have three of them - Chinese, German and Russian) so that my colleague who is reading out the list of graduates could write them down phonetically.
I've got to be down at the sports hall at 10:00 tomorrow morning ready for the ceremony to begin at 10:30, so I think that at the very least a magazine will be necessary for that half hour. A copy of New Scientist should do nicely, I think.
One of the backlog scrolls I'm working on is a Lindquistring, the badge of which is a dragon coiled into a ring holding a jewel. It occurred to me that it should be possible to do this as a Book of Kells/Book of Durrow/Lindisfarne Gospels style knotwork beastie. I've got one full sketch done but I'm not too keen on the dragon's body, so I'm thinking of trying another one as a pure knotwork ring with a section cut out to hold the dragon's head, feet and gem. I hope to get it done this weekend once I've got over the formalities of graduation tomorrow morning.
We had the rehearsal for that this evening; I'm handing out the certificates for computing, as usual. I was greatly amused to see a number of the girls wearing 'dress' shoes but carrying their trainers - clearly they had decided that either the shoes needed breaking in or that they needed to make sure that they could manage the steps to and from the stage without falling over. My other service was to pronounce the non-Icelandic graduates' names (we have three of them - Chinese, German and Russian) so that my colleague who is reading out the list of graduates could write them down phonetically.
I've got to be down at the sports hall at 10:00 tomorrow morning ready for the ceremony to begin at 10:30, so I think that at the very least a magazine will be necessary for that half hour. A copy of New Scientist should do nicely, I think.