Interesting Stuff....

Ok, Some of you peoples know that I take piano lessons from a girl named Grace Anne. She's teaching me all the church music, so I can play when she's off somewhere...like college or something. Anyway, on to my point. I started a new song, "For All the Saints" Also known as Sine Nomine (If you have not heard this song, LOOK IT UP!) Actually...I'll do that for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YLsZLDu-ok&feature=related
Ok, no one's singing. The lyrics go roughly like this ~

 For all the saints, who from their labors rest,   
                 who thee by faith before the world confessed,   
                 thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest.   
                   Alleluia, Alleluia!    

              Thou wast their rock, their fortress, and their might;   
              thou Lord, their captain in the well-fought fight;   
             thou in the darkness drear, their one true light.  
            Alleluia, Alleluia!    

            O may thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold,   
          fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,   
         and win with them the victor's crown of gold.   
         Alleluia, Alleluia! 

That's only 3 out of 8 though. Didn't want to bog down anything. Anyway.

So, now you've heard it, and read the lyrics (if you hadn't already known the song)
Anyway.

A guy named Ralph Vaughan Williams composed this tune (and millions more) specifically for this tune. "Ok, so...?" Grace Anne told me something interesting about him. He was a devout athiest throught this life, to his death bed. He also wrote the mu
sic for "Come Down, O Love Divine" Which, that one, I don't know as well, but the music is *amazing*. He also wrote a LOT of music of old hymns and wrote opera music to things like Pilgram's Progress.

And....my point is. How could this guy, an ahtiest, write music *like that*. It's SO glorifying to God! And yeah...it's just kinda really strange. Grace Anne told me that, and I had to share.


NOW


My new knitting project!!!! EEEEE!
This *motions to picture* Is called "Clapotis" My mom pronouced it lik e "Clappoties" but our friend at the yarn store said "Clap-otis". But I really like my mom's version better, lol.
It's a free pattern on www.knitty.com, and if you want to look it up, you go there, "search" and..."Clapotis" Which...you peoples, if you wanted to, could figure that out anyway, lol.
It's a really easy pattern, and super easy to memorize. It goes kinda slowly, cause it's only on size 8 needles, but the yarn makes it more fun, and the little twists in the pattern.





Here's the yarn I'm using

It's a Malabrigo, and worsted (meaning it's kinda light) And, it's a veriagated yarn, but not self-striping. Plus, it's cheap, lol.


And yeah. There are 2 versions, there's the scarf, and a shall/stole type thing. I'm making the shall/stole type thing.

OH MY WORD!

THE BALL IS TOMORROW!

I'll leave it at that...since this is kinda a mixed post...I'll just...post tomorrow and talk about the ball and ...something else. lol. YAY!!!!!!!!
You peoples who have never been to a ball are extremely missing out. Also if you've never done the Posties.

Valete Omnes!