Proud dad

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I think I've told you before that my daughter is a knitting and handicrafts enthusiast and is pretty good at it. Here is a picture of her latest knitted jumper, which makes the point better than I could.



For a living she works for a company that makes industrial x-ray machinery, the kind of very precise stuff that checks quality control in the manufacture of large scale integrated circuits, or chips as they have come to be known. She's a software architect and designs real-time software used in the control of the machines.

Each year, at Christmas the company holds a fun competition in which the staff are invited to provide a mystery object that can be x-rayed. From the x-ray image, the other staff must try to identify the object.

My daughter crocheted and submitted a tiny representation of a snowflake, using thread with a stainless steel core so that it would show up in an x-ray. She did it all under a large magnifier using a crotchet hook of about 0.5 mm diameter and it won the competition. Here is my magnified picture of her snowflake.



Please forgive my awful bragging . . . . .

[Tony]

Blimey she's a very talented person no wonder your proud.... I think the key apart from skill with knitting is patience.