Song festival 2014. TuleTulemine in Suurupi and our flame quilt.

From 15 June to 4 July 2014, the TuleTulemine event "From village to village, from hand to hand" included, among others, the associations, societies, choirs, dance groups and orchestra of my home parish, carrying the festival flame to the festival city by bicycle relay.

The TuleTulemine celebrations of Harku parish took place in Kumna, Vaana and Suurupi, and the Suurupi event was the high point of the celebrations in the parish.
It was tremendous to see all those groups together and performing once again. All our singing and dancing children, the women, the men, the orchestra. Almost all of them also made it successfully through the tight gauntlet of qualifying for the song and dance festival, and we will see and hear them performing again at the great festival.

The flame quilt is a team effort. The design is by Helle Kares and the base of the work was sewn by me. You can read more about it in my blog post about the TuleTulemine wall hanging.

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The official website of the event is here: http://tuletulemine.suurupi.ee
The Suurupi Society Facebook gallery can be seen here: Suurupi Society

Here are a few pictures as well.
The choice of pictures is rather chaotic, but I left covering the event to the professionals. I simply took a few shots of the performers and the beautiful surroundings. When the flame arrived I enjoyed the mood and put my little box camera away in my pocket. 🙂

 

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Violin case repair

Last school year, I repaired my grandchild's violin case. The loops meant for attaching the backpack straps had torn off. She cycles to school, and it’s impossible to ride while holding the violin in your hand. Naturally, the violin and case—which belonged to the school—went back at the start of the summer. Now that the new school year has begun, she has been issued a school violin and case again, but this one is in even worse condition than last year's. So, I undertook the repair once more. This time, I decided to replace the entire back panel—including the piping—and cover the torn section at the end of the case with a leather patch. I used reflective tape for the top layer of the piping. The video condenses six hours of work into three minutes. If anyone finds themselves in need of a similar repair, I will be able to take on a few jobs starting in February 2027, and I can handle a few at a time during the summer break.

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