Mostly, but not all music

This Shabbat our food is all provided from the depths of my freezer ( beef stew, chicken soup challah and frozen vegetables) so there won't be much about food. 

My older son has been using our kitchen to  cook the meal that he is bringing to a potluck Shabbat dinner tonight. It feels like the old days.The kitchen smells great but not through my efforts.

Since we are heading into cold and flu season I thought that you may enjoy hearing this Yiddish song. We sang this a whole lot when my kids were little.

 

Another appropriate for the season Yiddish song.

On the sewing front I have been working away on lining the leather motorcycle jacket. Unlike sewing in fabric, once you sew in leather the needle holes are permanent. If you add a new set of needle holes you have weakened the leather.

I hand stitched a back stitch ( a really strong hand sewing stitch) in strong red crochet cotton ( it was the only color I had on hand)into the existing holes that had held the lining in place.

I am now hand stitching a ready made quilted jacket onto the red stitching. Below you see the neckline sewn into place.

Here is one side mostly sewn into place.

I am planning to leave the zipper of the lining so that the lining can be zipped independently of the outer leather jacket.

Working on this jacket I understand why tailors worked sitting cross legged on the floor. This is a heavy project and it needs to be supported so I don't wreck my wrists.

Soon I will have a warm, lined leather jacket that will take me through a great deal of the winter.

Don't ask me if the number of hours that I have invested in this jacket are actually worth it. I won't answer you.

I end this post with another of those wonderful Israeli secular Shabbat songs that is prayerful but not religious. Someone's doctoral dissertation could be written about Israeli music that evokes religious themes but is secular.

Shabbat Shalom!