Quiet

[warning: these are all youtube links]

The world is full of people posting end-of-year link lists of various sorts, and I have about fifteen or twenty things open in tabs that I'd like to read if only I felt like spending a week or so staring at the computer (to add to the rather long list of things I already have bookmarked that I meant to pass along to other people...) One of the things I have gotten to are several other people's annotated books read lists (you would think I'd eventually get around to writing up my own, but... not so far.) and most recently I've cadged Susan Cain's Quiet from scribofelidae and the library, as I was also entertained by her TED talk on introversion. And horrified by the picture she paints of the modern grade school experience, but that's a different problem... I only got it last night, but I'm enjoying the book so far, despite being not particularly in her target audience of people who need convincing.

Unfortunately, I'm fairly sure that the entire time I'm reading the book, I shall have the song of the same name stuck in my head. The version I have is off of Jean Redpath's Now & Then* and I like it a great deal better than the original-- for those of you not familiar with Jean Redpath, she does things like this: Leaving the Land, The Wild Geese, and a lifetime's worth of Scottish folk songs. Last I heard, she was still working on recording the complete Robbie Burns, which is a bit less my thing, but the fact remains that if I spent about 4x as much time singing as I do, I might someday sound as good as she can. Of course, assuming young Miss Radiator doesn't turn out like my brother (who hated vocal music from day one) I'm making myself an audience for the next few years.

Having thought of it, I now contemplate acquiring a few more albums for myself; the timing would be sort of traditional, as my mother & her sister got a Jean Redpath record out of the library the winter I was born and sang me the lum hat wantin' a croon song as a lullaby. (It's the second one here, starting ~2:40. A fine moralistic tale involving being washed out to sea over a broken-down top hat and a dead skate.)


*I find I'm not actually sure how one is supposed to notate album titles. Huh.

Quiet

[warning: these are all youtube links]

The world is full of people posting end-of-year link lists of various sorts, and I have about fifteen or twenty things open in tabs that I'd like to read if only I felt like spending a week or so staring at the computer (to add to the rather long list of things I already have bookmarked that I meant to pass along to other people...) One of the things I have gotten to are several other people's annotated books read lists (you would think I'd eventually get around to writing up my own, but... not so far.) and most recently I've cadged Susan Cain's Quiet from scribofelidae and the library, as I was also entertained by her TED talk on introversion. And horrified by the picture she paints of the modern grade school experience, but that's a different problem... I only got it last night, but I'm enjoying the book so far, despite being not particularly in her target audience of people who need convincing.

Unfortunately, I'm fairly sure that the entire time I'm reading the book, I shall have the song of the same name stuck in my head. The version I have is off of Jean Redpath's Now & Then* and I like it a great deal better than the original-- for those of you not familiar with Jean Redpath, she does things like this: Leaving the Land, The Wild Geese, and a lifetime's worth of Scottish folk songs. Last I heard, she was still working on recording the complete Robbie Burns, which is a bit less my thing, but the fact remains that if I spent about 4x as much time singing as I do, I might someday sound as good as she can. Of course, assuming young Miss Radiator doesn't turn out like my brother (who hated vocal music from day one) I'm making myself an audience for the next few years.

Having thought of it, I now contemplate acquiring a few more albums for myself; the timing would be sort of traditional, as my mother & her sister got a Jean Redpath record out of the library the winter I was born and sang me the lum hat wantin' a croon song as a lullaby. (It's the second one here, starting ~2:40. A fine moralistic tale involving being washed out to sea over a broken-down top hat and a dead skate.)


*I find I'm not actually sure how one is supposed to notate album titles. Huh.

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has anyone seen this one before?

I've been (off and on) working with commercial sewing patterns for upwards of 20 years now, and this is a new one on me:



So, as you can see on the far side of piece eleven here, there are the usual sizing lines in various combinations of dots and dashes so that you can tell them apart. They're labelled by size farther down the pattern piece. However, all but two pieces in the package including those that are one-size for everything have a different dashed line along the other side of the piece about a half-inch off from the solid cutting line. With some pieces it's inside the solid line and some (like this) it's outside; on the curves of the bodice side-front, there are two sets of sizing lines to match up with both pieces. Nowhere in the pattern envelope can I find any mention of the extra lines' existence, let alone an explanation of what it's supposed to be, or why I'd cut on it rather than the solid one. It's definitely not labeled on any of the pieces, and there's no indication that the pattern is supposed to be sized for alternate shapes or anything odd. If it's a printing error, it's a remarkably consistent and well-edited one.

Any thoughts? I'll most likely just cut on the solid line and ignore it, but I'm now terribly curious what in the world is up with this pattern.