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⠠⠍⠁⠞⠮⠺⠄⠎⠀⠃⠗⠇ Transcription Update [08 August 2010]

On my MacBook I find difficulty using Dot to Dot.  Regardless the display font setting, newly chorded characters appear in the same variable-width print font.  Specifying a Braille font in the preferences window applies to all characters in the window but not to characters chorded after the font selection, which will continue to appear in a variable-width print font.  The print characters appearing on-screen are not always those expected:  Numbers are made with lower instead of upper dots, and punctuation appears as numbers instead.  I do not know any resolution.

My MacBook will permit six-key chords only when control, option, or command keys are one of the six.  I discovered a workaround for printing a cell with all six dots:  I can press caps lock, =, caps lock, which appears as an = until I reselect a Braille font as the display font.  This clunky workaround works with Dot to Dot, but on this computer neither iBraille nor Perky Duck work at all with Mac OS X 10.6.4.

Perky Duck works fine on my Macintosh Performa 6220 CD as long as I use an Apple brand keyboard.  My plan is to use Dot to Dot on my MacBook whilst away from home, working the drills and a first draft of the exercises.  When I return home, I shall use Perky Duck on my Performa to prepare a second draft of the exercises.  Comparing the two drafts will help me find any errors I made, and I can submit the file produced by Perky Duck.

Status key:

1. 1.DRAFT—First draft is in progress
   

2. 1.PROOF—First draft needs to be proofed
   

3. 2.DRAFT—Second draft is in progress
   

4. 2.COMP—Second draft needs to be compared to proofed first draft
   

5. 2.PROOF—Second draft needs to be proofed
   

6. READY—Exercise is ready for submission
   

Statuses:

1. Lesson 1—2.PROOF          Lesson 6—1.DRAFT          Lesson 11—                Lesson 16—
   

2. Lesson 2—2.DRAFT          Lesson 7—                 Lesson 12—                Lesson 17—
   

3. Lesson 3—2.DRAFT          Lesson 8—                 Lesson 13—                Lesson 18—
   

4. Lesson 4—2.DRAFT          Lesson 9—                 Lesson 14—                Lesson 19—
   

5. Lesson 5—2.DRAFT          Lesson 10—                Lesson 15—                Lesson 20—
   

Project Status [08 August 2010]

«Scheibengardine B» curtain:  There will be no progress until September.

I am ready for Row 81.  After working 19,000 stitches into the pattern, I think I am making this curtain too small.

I found a mistake in the publication:  The model shows three sets of double leaves in the longest vines, whilst the pattern shows four sets.  The mistake is introduced by the numbering of the rows.  Here is the fix:  For the center vine remove the numbering for Rows 45-59.  Renumber Rows 61-85 to be 45-69; renumber Rows 87-109 to be 71-93.

Master Hand Knitter Programme Updates

25 July 2010:  I need to be home a few days to continue research for swatches.  I shall post more information when I have something to report.

03 June 2010:  There has been much fun but no completed swatches.  I studied cast-ons, cast-offs, and increases and tried many things to arrive at a perfect swatch.  I had no idea there would be so much work involved in a piece of fabric this small, but yarn presents different challenges than thread.

01 June 2010:  Yarn was delivered today, and I am ready to start swatching.

25 May 2010:  Knit Picks Wool of the Andes was ordered for making swatches and the Level I project.  The order was picked, packed, and delivered to the transport company on the same day.

19 May 2010:  The instructions for Level I were delivered via E-mail.

17 May 2010:  I registered for Level I of the master hand knitter programme offered by The Knitting Guild Association.  Upon successful completion of all three levels, I shall be certified as a master hand knitter.