Knitting -- jumper/pullover -- increases

So if you're starting a sleeve with a 64 stitch cuff, and you need it to be 100 stitches above the elbow,
you have to add stitches.
There are at least 2 ways to do this, one very easy and one more complicated.
The easy way is to basically cast on a new stitch.
Loop the yarn around your thumb and catch it onto the needle.


The other way, which I usually use, is more complicated but it seems easier to knit on the next round.
YMMV
Knit the stitch but don't pull it off onto the other needle.
Instead, you knit into the other side of the same stitch.
Let me explain that.
When you normally knit a stitch, you run the needle from front to back into the side of the stitch facing you.
You loop the yarn around and pull it through.
There is another side to that stitch and it's on the inside of the knitwork.
To increase, you now insert the needle from front to back in that side of the stitch.
You loop the yarn around and pull it through.
Now you pull the old stitch off the left-hand needle and you have two stitches on the right-hand needle.

So now knit the row above the cuff.  Increase one stitch at the start end.
Knit 15 stitches.
Increase one.
Repeat this.
Knit to the end and increase one.
You will have +4 of however many stitches you made in the cuff.
You will only increase at the ends of the rows from now on.

You can also increase in purl but I won't make you do that.

With a 64-stitch cuff, and a 68-stitch first row, you have to add 32 more stitches, 2 at a time.
Your elbow will be about row 70 of a 145 row sleeve and you need 100 stitches there.
You have to increase on 16 rows of the 70.
So do increases at the ends of every other KNIT row.
You will purl the row after the one where you added the 4 stitches, and knit the next row.
It is called STOCKINETTE STITCH when you knit one row and purl the next.
You will knit a row, purl a row,
AND THEN INCREASE AT THE ENDS of the next row,
which is row 5.
You will also increase at rows 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45,  49, 53, 57, 61, and 67.
Then work without increases until you do row 145.

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Fact-Checking the Torah -- Numbers 6:1-9

Your assignment was to read Numbers 6:1-9.

This is the famous nazir vow. 

The Lord spoke to Moshe saying,

Speak to the children of Israel and tell them any man or woman who takes on a vow, the vow of a nazir, to separate themselves to the Lord, shall swear off wine and strong drink, wine that is made with yeast and strong drink that is made with yeast shall not be drunk nor shall any drink made from grapes, and fresh or dried grapes shall not be eaten.

All the days of the nazir vow, anything made from grapes or the vine, whether winter grapes or pulp, shall not be eaten.

All the days of the nazir vow no razor shall come on his head until the days of the nazir vow to the Lord be past, what grows on his head as hair shall be holy.

All the days of the nazir vow to the Lord he shall not come in to a dead person,

whether his father or mother or brother or sister, he shall not render himself tameh for them if they die because the nazir vow to his Gd is upon him.

All the days of the nazir vow he is holy to the Lord.

If anybody die near him by accident and the head of his nazir vow becomes tameh, his head shall be shaved on the day that he becomes tahor -- on the seventh day he shall be shaved.

On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest to the door of the tent of witness.

This is not a vow to stop somebody from drinking.  You can make a neder performance oath for that.  This vow prohibits all grape products, including use of the vines and leaves.  It also requires the person who made the vow to stay away from dead bodies.

The rabbis later codified specifically that whoever makes a nazir vow has to observe all the conditions.  He or she cannot make the vow and then ask to be allowed to eat grapes while still abstaining from wine. 

The nazir vow says something important about the Jewish legal system which once again shows that it parallels other legal systems. That's for next week.

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Bit at a time Bible Hebrew -- Genesis 1:30

Genesis 1:30

 

ל וּלְכָל־חַיַּת הָאָרֶץ וּלְכָל־עוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם וּלְכֹל רוֹמֵשׂ עַל־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר־בּוֹ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה אֶת־כָּל־יֶרֶק עֵשֶׂב לְאָכְלָה וַיְהִי־כֵן:

 

Transliteration: U-l’khal chayat ha-arets u-l’khal of ha-shamaim u-l’khol romes al-ha-arets asher-bo nefesh chayah et-kal-yereq exev l’akhlah va-y’hi-khen.

Translation:    And to all wild animals of the land and every flyer of the sky and every creeper on the earth that has a living soul, every green herb for food, and it was so.

Vocabulary in this lesson:

יֶרֶק

Green (n)

 

I’m going to give you all of the verb hayah now even though it was in the last lesson.  Notice that this verb has three of the special letters so of course it won’t look like anything else you’ve seen.

 

Present of hayah almost never appears in a sentence.  The masculine singular, hoveh, הוֹוֶה almost always simply means reality, what exists, what people usually do. 

 

Past

Singular	Plural	Person/gender
הָיִיתִי	הָיִינוּ	First
הָיִיתָ	הֱיִיתֶם	Second/masculine
הָיִיתּ	הֱייתֶן	Second/feminine
הָיָה	הָיוּ	Third/masculine
הָיְתָה	הָיוּ	Third/feminine

 

Future/Aorist

Singular	Plural	Person/gender
אֶהְיֶה	נִהְיֶה	First
תִּהְיֶה	תִּהְיוּ	Second/masculine
תִּהְיִי	תִּהְיֶינָה	Second/feminine
יִהְיֶה	יִהְיוּ	Third/masculine
תִּהְיֶה	תִּהְיֶינָה	Third/feminine

 

 

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Outdoors -- changes

As I type this, it's dark.

The sun has risen but it's cloudy.

Flicker jee, my catbird, is out mewing in the pokeweed.

The lady cardinal is chipping around in our backyard quad.

Her husband is recovering his crest; he recently molted it.

When things brighten up, the wrens will start up.

The chickadees are out settling their winter turf, no doubt expecting me to put out food again this winter.

Which I will.

The robin clucks once in a while.

The mockingbirds are still living in my holly tree but their chicks are grown so dad doesn't feel like he has anything to sing about.

And the crickets are all singing loudly.

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Knitting -- jumper/pullover sleeve length

OK now that you, like my friend, are done laughing about my description of how to get the cuffs the right width, here's something else you can laugh at.

How many times have you wished your sweater sleeves were longer or shorter?

Let's make custom length sleeves on this sweater.

I usually do 145 rows from cuff to armpits but YMMV.

So measure your underarm from pit to wrist.

The number of rows you make will be 6.5 times those inches because we're using Cotton Fine or something like that.

To make sure, look at the wrapper on the skein; somewhere it will say "stitches per inch."

This is important because you need to increase the size of the sleeve you knit from wrist to armpit or it will be too tight on your upper arm.

I usually go from 52 stitches at the wrist to 100 stitches  above the elbow.

That means my sleeve winds up being a little more than 17 inches around above the elbow.

Do your measurements, make your cuff, and next week I'll talk about how you do those increases.

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Hey you guys!

Yeah, you guys, the ones reading my Beilis stuff.
You're not leaving any comments.
Don't hold back!
If you find mistakes and inconsistencies, email me or tweet me as to where you're posting your comments.
'Cause if you are finding this stuff, obviously I need all the help I can get.

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DIY -- it's so clean!

OK you will NEVER get into this situation because you are a much better housekeeper than I am.
But last week, I got my baking soda out of the fridge (you do have baking soda in the fridge to absorb odors, don't you?).
I mixed up two cups of thyme disinfectant.
I spent 15 minutes scrubbing one counter.
It's right next to the stove; everything splashes on it.
Because I'm so terrible at cleaning (there are always more interesting things to do),
this counter was a horrible mess.
So I used some elbow grease and the baking soda, a terrific no-scratch scrubber.
For the worst parts, I did break down and use a steel wool soap pad.
And I got the last little shreds off with the old fingernail-scrape technique.
Then I wiped with the thyme tea, and took the rest upstairs to disinfect the toilet.
I came back down and wiped the counter, getting off all the baking soda grit and the film of salts left by the castile soap in the disinfectant.
It  is all odor-free now, disinfected, de-grimed, and I can keep up with it regularly from now on.
Ay, there's the rub.
That's fifteen minutes you will never have to spend because you keep after your cleaning better than I do.
You will spend 15 minutes on two counters five times the size of what I scrubbed.
You'll use half as much baking soda and thyme tea as I did and still have leftovers for the toilet.
And you won't wind up with a chlorine smell, and you won't breed superbugs.
What's not to like?
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