Progress on the kilt

That's a mental block. You have coordination. You just don't believe you can apply it to the piano.

My map isn't working right...

Beverly

Not entirely. When I was in high school, taking typing and shorthand (remember Gregg???), I learned that my little fingers on both hands were jointed oddly. They just do not work right, which is not a problem with sewing, but I cannot depress the keys of a typewriter or piano with my little fingers. Even now, I type with only six fingers and my thumbs. My DD cringes to watch me type. ;-}

Beverly

Did you turn it on?

Do I remember Gregg? I can still do 90 wpm. Down from my career high of 120. My DH has been taking piano lessons for the past...what, 4 or 5 years now, I think. It's a bit tricky because he put both hands through a window many, many years ago, cutting tendons and nerves, and some nerves never did come back. He has some problems, but he does it for his own enjoyment, and he's really made a lot of progress.

When I was in elementary school I took piano lessons at school, after school. We lived with my aunt, uncle, cousin and grandmother then, my mother and I did. My cousin was also taking lessons, so they got an upright piano for us to practice on. I loved it! I got up extra early in the morning to practice, hurried home from school (on days that I didn't have a lesson) to practice, on the weekends I practiced.....until one day I came home from school and the piano was gone. They told me they'd sent it out to be tuned. It never came back. *sniffff*

No, she snarls at me.

That's very cool.

All together now: "Aaaaaawwwwww".

Seriously, the rest of the family probably voted to have the crack-of-dawn concert eliminated. Too bad.

Beverly

That's what happened. They told me, years later. Other kids were threatened, cajoled, and begged to practice. Not me. They took the piano away.

That is so sad. Kids should be encouraged and facilitated to do their best, why on earth would anyone take the opposite tack?

Beverly

They wanted to sleep? Have a conversation? Eat in peace? Curiously, there is a concert pianist in the U.K. with my name. I can say she has my name because I'm older than she is.

Equally curiously, because my name is as rare as yours, I find a few other "me-s" when I google my name.

Beverly

They just don't seem to understand that we are unique!!!

Yabut, with over 6 BILLION people alive on earth today, it is probably inevitable that there be a few duplicate names....

Beverly

Names, yes, but you know that we are in a class by ourselves. Hmmmm....maybe because everyone else left......naw! That couldn't be it.

Today's update: I just finished pleat #22, the next one is the big box pleat which lies under the right apron edge. I have to review the instructions before I proceed.

Then it's on to the steeking, cutting away the excess under the pleats, opening the "buttonhole" for the left-side strap, add the hair canvas, sew in the lining, fringe and finish the right apron edge, apply the straps and buckles, hem, and finish the top band.

Deadline is fast approaching, DGD dances again on March

Yay!!! Go Beverly!!!! Plenty of time. Not like it's the 13th or anything. ;)

Sharon

I have reviewed the instructions and I'm ready to take on the next steps tomorrow. With any luck at all, I'll have it done and delivered to DGD by Thursday next week. Possibly Friday. Or at very latest on the trip up to Seattle Saturday...

Beverly