Recently I seem to have started several new projects. Maybe it’s time for updates on them.
Hebrew homeschool: Every week I have been writing out the first phrase or sentence of the Torah portion in Hebrew — first the entire phrase and then word by word on separate lines in my notebook. The next step is the transliteration and then the translation. After that I record any specific reading or studying I’ve done during the week. I have to say that I’ve been doing just the bare minimum here since the first week. But I have noticed that it’s easier to read the Hebrew when I glance at it during my Daf Yomi time. So there’s that.
Graduate school: the final project, a group project, is almost all that is left. I know what I want to contribute to it, and I keep telling myself that I have plenty of time to do my research and prepare my materials. There is also a book to read; it has eleven chapters and I have read three. If I read one chapter about every three days, which seems to be within the realm of possibility, I’ll stay on schedule.
Journaling: I have been keeping up with entries in two journals every day. This does not include my bullet journal, which I stopped using a couple of months ago and is now, in fact, MIA. For next year I have ordered (and received!) a gorgeous preprinted planner and a fountain pen and ink to go with it.
I’m trying not to start too many new projects, but sometimes you just have to play to your strengths.
Knitwise, I haven’t cast on for either of the two projects for which I purchased patterns. I did, however, download a free pattern for knitting a potato. Yes, a pattern for a potato. And I didn’t cast on for that one, either (keeping my streak alive).
What I did do was gently make some progress on the Packer scarf as I cleared Formula 1 sessions from the DVR and watched the final Grand Prix of the season. Just 105 days to go before the 2023 season starts in Bahrain!
I call it gentle progress because the tension on this project is loose and I don’t want to tighten it up. So when the race got, as my former boss Terry Thompson used to say about a tension-filled magazine issue, “a little too exciting,” I had to put down the project until I could knit calmly.
It’s a rather meditative knit anyway.
That’s how it looked on Saturday night. Next, here’s how it looked a full 24 hours later:
That’s about 10 ridges, or 20 rows, of progress. You can see by how much of the green yarn is left that I’m going to be plugging along on this for a while. When this skein of green yarn is used up, I’ll be at the halfway point. Unless I decide to put on some fringe. I suppose that I will decide for/against fringe when I get to the almost-halfway point. I just weighed the balance of the green skein, and I have 52 of 83 grams of yarn left. I can weigh the balance again when the scarf is 45 inches long and make some more calculations.
What do you think? Fringe or no fringe?
Chocolate Sheep 