A Plate of Delicate Ware
by Sue McKinnell 3X32 Strathspey for 3C set dance
Bars
1-8	1C and 2C dance the knot.
9-16	2C, 1C, and 3C dance a snowball grand chain, 3C crossing RH to begin.
17-20	1C dance half figures of 8, 1M up and 1W down.
21-24	2C, 1C, and 3C dance set and link for 3 couples on the side: 3M (top) and 2W (bottom) dance forward to the other end of their line and curve into place while 3W and 1W cast off 1 place and 1M and 2M cast up 1 place. End 2, 3, 1 on the W's and 1, 2, 3 on the M's.
25-32	All dance a bourrel for 3 couples. End 3, 1, 2.
Repeat from new positions.
Suggested music is The Orchards of Co. Armagh from Book 53 For 2023 Volume 1 by David Oswald.
Years ago when I was in high school a good friend told me about a class his uncle was taking in how to use visualization to help remember a list. Then he told me about the one his uncle used to remember the original 13 colonies in the order in which they joined the union. It starts “Begin with a plate of delicate ware” (Delaware). It’s now 60+ years later and I still remember the whole sequence, so I decided to use the phrases as titles for some dances; this is the first of those dances.
	05/25