Here I am showing you how to knit socks. First with very thick wool to help you to see things better and then with usual sock wool. If you have questions, please ask.
Knitting socks – part 1 – cuff and shaft
Knitting socks – part 2 – heel
Knitting socks – part 3 – gusset
Knitting socks – part 4 – top and finishing off
This video shows how to make a simple and stretchy naalbinding cap. I am using the traditional wooden needle as well as one made from metal and also two ways of “attaching” new thread.
Like you might have seen by now: you get a line when you always double in the same space. To avoid this I start in the 5th or 6th round to place the doubled loop always in different places and then do my regular loop count. Below I repeat the increases like I wrote them in the subtitles.
You might wonder how often I increased the number of loops: well in the end I had 70 loops per round.
And the number of rounds: 52 for this cap.
Yarn: I will give you some links to yarn that corresponts to what I am using here. (Always consider buying at your local markets :-))
Yarn quantity used: 60 g (50 g = 50 m / for knitting needles 8 mm / UK 0 / US 11)
The needle:
BUT: each of us works differntly. Therefore the easiest way to make the first cap is measuring it over and over again, just like I do in the video, comparing to a cap that fits. The other way is simply to measure how it fits on the head. Unlike crocheting and knitting you cannot easily unravel these caps. The advantage of naalbinding is that you won’t have any ladders (like you often have it knit garments). Since this particular naalbinding stitch (which is the easiest one IMHO) creates a farily stretchy cap it does not need to be as exact as with the Oslo stitch (which is the one most naalbinders use).
Instructions:
Round 1: bind 5 loops
Round 2: double each loop –> 10 loops
Round 3: double each second loop –> 15 loops
Round 4: double each third loop –> 20 loops
Round 5: double each fourth loop –> 25 loops
Round 6: here the rhythm how to increase loops changes. Double the second loop, and then double each 5th loop until the end of the round –> 30 loops
Round 7: double the 5th loop. Then double each 6th loop –> 35 loops
Round 8: here I double the 2nd loop again, and then each 7th loop –> 40 loops
Round 9: double the 1st loop, and then each 8th loop –> 45 loops
Round 10: double the 6th loop, and then each 9th loop –> 50 loops
From here on I did not increase any more. Depending from the head form, some increases further below might be fine (but it is really rare that this is needed).
Materials:
Wooden needles: https://amzn.to/3Ea2jdq (here I would really try to get them hand made from a market – these are not rounded well, but there are wooden needles)
Blunt metal needles: https://amzn.to/3srPRTJ
Blunt metal needles (including some for easier weaving): https://amzn.to/3QXgnyF
Pointed metal needles: https://amzn.to/3YNcKwS
Wool: https://amzn.to/3YQP5fg (there are also multi-coloured skeins)
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Please set the subtitles to English
There were soooo many zucchini to be harvested. Very likely I will preserve them as a zucchini-tomato sauce and some chutney. I also read that apple-zucchini-chutney was a great thing, well, let’s see :-))) – Also some more tomatoes were ripe. There are not many this year. If I am lucky, I will have quite some green ones by November and maybe can make a chutney from these. The leaves getting yellow need to be removed, and I do this nearly every day, when I see them. Finally, also the pole beans are having some flowers and I hope that it is not going to rain continuously so that they have a chance to be pollinated. The bush beans on the other hand already produced som green beans which I could harvest. The tomato and chili plants need to be attached over and over again. They are growing and tend to fall over. I am also knitting the other sizes of the baby socks for my friend. My husband’s new winter cap also got done in a very old naalbinding technique. The complete video on how to make it will follow.
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Music:
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Peach tree cultivation from pits has many advantages, but also several downsides. It gives varieties that bear very little, almost nothing, and are quite different from the mother varieties, such as Mattheser (the so-called wild nectarines), yellow and other varieties that are only useful as rootstocks for grafting, otherwise have no value and must be removed after 10-15 years, having waited in vain for fruit until then.
But good varieties are also obtained from seeds, because all our good varieties are grown from seeds (even the early from Northern America) And there are varieties that have all withstood severe winters. These good varieties are then further propagated by grafting, not from pits. Peaches grown from pits are usually tougher than grafted ones and do not suffer as much from resin flow and cold.
Source: Der praktische Ratgeber im Obst- und Gartenbau (The practical guide to fruit growing and horticulture), published on October 6, 1889, written by A. Werder. Published in German on the website Uropas Bauerngarten (Great Grandpa’s Cottage Garden)
If there is an instruction that is not clear, please let me know and I will improve the description. When you do knit all the time often there are obvious steps for the experienced knitter that are not obvious at all. The YouTube video is embedded below.
2022 was a truly terrible year for beans. First it was too cold for a long time. Than they were finally in the soil and we had a very long dry and hot period that prevented them from growing, even if I watered them regularly. When they finally started to grow it was too late in the year and it was too cold for bees. I love beans so much. Let’s hope for a better year 2023.
Again and again, there are currently delivery problems with drugs. A German article re. this topic:
It is time to consult Mother Nature. Unfortunately, much knowledge about our old natural medicine has been lost. Of course we should try to find the information again.
A very interesting document comes from the Schola Medica Salernitana, which initiated the beginning of modern medicine with herbs (modern at that time) in Europe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schola_Medica_Salernitana
However, I would be interested in the healing methods of the Celts, because they used the herbs growing in our country (welll in Europe). The Scola Medica Salernitana is a place where to start. By the way, Hildegard von Bingen’s knowledge was based precisely on this “school”.
Hawthorn berries were once used as a substitute for flour when baking bread. Ignorantly, I dried them and ground them into flour with a coffee grinder. That worked. I substituted only 3 heaping tablespoons of the resulting flour at a time from 400 grams of whole wheat flour, though.
Later I read (where, I unfortunately do not remember) that the hawthorn berries are cooked and then passed through a sieve. The resulting pulp is dried and then finely ground in a blender. (I have not yet tried to do this myself). However, I find this preparation quite energy-intensive, especially because it is more difficult to dry in the air in autumn.
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Hawthorn berry dropped my blood pressure to normal within a day or less, dried organic berries steeped by themselves. Once blood pressure normalised I mixed green tea, hawthorn berries, star anise and honey for a tincture. I’d make a tincture in the morning for a room temperature drink before bed and a tincture at night to have on an empty stomach on the morning.
Again an answer to a question in a group. This is my tooth powder and below alternatives to it.
Ingredients:
Mix well and simply add it on the toothbrush. Please note that tumeric will stain your clothes in case you get a drop of this on them.
Another possibility, when you don’t have turmeric is:
I would also consider other antibacterial herbs in powdered form.
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