How to wash your hands

If we weren’t all, every single one of us, affected by this change of daily life, the soundbites we hear might cause one to laugh: Be safe, Wash your hands, Wear a mask.

We are all affected; even if we have power enough to refuse to wear a mask in public. We are all affected.

I did laugh the other day.

My professional reading includes quite a few magazines. One is the Diapason. In the May 2020 issue, a regular column In the Wind….. is written by John Bishop. His take on all things organ is often amusing and frequently instructive. One section includes suggestions for how to measure 20 seconds. (In case you were never a Girl Scout leader, that’s how long you need to wash your hands to insure they are cleaner.)He mentions songs you can sing to yourself or out loud (grin). A prayer or two you can recite. I smiled at this suggestion from Macbeth:

Out, damn spot! Out, I say! — One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky! — 
Fie, my Lord, fie! A soldier, and afeared? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him.

He suggests to emote a little so your hands will be cleaner. Perhaps no gestures though.

It made me laugh.

My suggestion: imagine tatting a small ring of 4 DS.

Perhaps that is because my design for Bach Festival this year has a mignonette section. 

Be safe. Wash your hands. Wear a mask.

Hair Bun Holder is finished! Whew!!

I finally have finished a rather involved project. It all started last summer.

I got the idea to make a hair bun holder for myself. I decided to base it on a doily pattern attributed to Anne Orr. I first ran into this pattern published in Tatting Doilies & Edgings edited by Rita Weiss for Dover Needlework Series. It’s listed as measuring 8-1/2 inches worked in size 50 thread. It looked all too complicated for me to attempt. After the OnLine class studied it last June, I was more intrigued by the pattern. Here’s what Gina came up with for us: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2011/anneorrdoilyrewrite.html

After we all signed out of the classroom and went about our summer, I kept coming back to the idea of using this pattern. Then I wandered into a quilt shop recommended to me for colorful tatting thread. They had a glorious collection of thread in all kinds of yummy colors. Now, I’ve not had great success working with tiny thread before this point. But, I couldn’t resist the colors! I really couldn’t decide which one to use…..




Cocolatte

Teaberries

Charcoal

Woodlands

So I asked on Intatters for ideas. What a great group of people! They had several ideas that I really liked. The question remained: how to execute these ideas? This is what I decided on:

top of hair bun holder in teaberries

Based on how I worked a  different beaded hair bun holder, I decided to make the back simple mignonette with a final row around an elastic hair tie.

back of hair bun holder

I can’t wait to try it on!