Friday and Saturday 16th/17th January - 2By2

Ang has posted this month's completed stitching already, here and here, but here it all is again;

Hers

And mine;

So I now have these to add to my collection 

I had a little chuckle when I opened the package (thank you for the chocolates!) because for a while I was considering doing a snowflake for my stitching...

We're doing the last ones now, to meet a date of 14th February. As Ang said, it's our game so we can set the rules! After that it's a matter of making up the book covers and adding the 'rubric', we've always signed and dated the pieces.

And planning the next collaboration?!? I do hope so...

Meanwhile while, what am I going to do for the last bit of stitching?

Bach Prelude and Fugue in F major, from Book 1 of the 48 BWV 856

I love the way she manages to separate the three voices of the fugue on the harpsichord in spite of the fact that harpsichords only play at one dynamic unless you change the stops for the entire keyboard. On a piano you bring out a voice by playing it louder and the others softer.

Rather in the way one desperately wants to make a pot of tea or a coffee when the power goes off, I woke up yesterday wanting to play the piano, In my half awake state I chose this piece, purely at random. I don't think I've ever looked at it before, but I knew I had the music.

But the cut on my thumb is exactly where my thumb would strike the piano keys...

But (again!) I have a digital harpsichord as well as a piano! The keys are significantly lighter, and I've been fine, so able to make a start on the prelude. It's trapper than it looks, but easier than it sounds.