Sunday

I sewed my jacket while I swam today. Step by step. It was a fabulous mental exercise and I came up with what I think will be a way better way to finish off that rounded bottom edge.

I thought about stopping in to get a haircut on the way home but the place looked pretty crowded. It's quite handy - on my way home - I can just fall into their parking lot. Except they don't open til 9 and I finish swimming usually at 8. And weekends are crowded. They have a new shop opening up a few blocks from here 'in June'... June is Wednesday but I'm not counting on their being open then. Maybe they will be open tomorrow when my swim will be done about 9 and because it's a holiday no one will realize they are open. Maybe. Or maybe I'll just grow my hair long.

There's a baseball game at 1. I think I'll watch it on my tablet back by the sewing machine. I'm ready to get this jacket started.

I think tonight I'm going back to Fat's for an early dinner when they open at 5 - like I did last week. 1. A restaurant named Fat's is clearly a restaruant that 'gets' me. 2. They have delicious fried okra which is my favorite. It's a messy bitch to make at home. And it's the ONLY way anyone with any sense would eat okra. Last week I got an additional order to go and warmed it up to go with dinner on Monday and it was spectacularly delicous again. So why not repeat?

Last night's bear. For some reason, bear production is way up this month. There are already 12 finished and delivery isn't until next Friday.

Not exactly success...

My jacket is stalled because I ran out of thread. I have a house full of thread, actually - probably a dozen spools of various reds, another dozen of pinks, a lot of beige, some navy, some black. Zero green. My jacket is mostly green. My final bit is top stitching which really needs to be green, so hault.

I have probably an hour's worth of work left or less. The whole thing took me way longer than necessary because I kept doing stupid stuff. Cut out only one sleeve. Sewed the shoulders backwards. Ran out of fabric to do the bottom like I wanted because, yeah, I really do need two sleeves. And, over all, I'm not sure it's going to be the great piece I had in mind but I got a lot figured out and I did get that fabulous t-shirt and all the t-shirts to come out of it so I'm not too bummed.

The fabric store that annoys me usually is, at least, open tomorrow so I can stop and pick up green thread on my way home from the pool and finish up the jacket.

The Mariners are playing like they have before this year... losing. Not fun. Plus they keep switching out the regular broadcasters. If I have to listen to a loss, at least let me do it with my buds!

Bitch, moan I think I'll fire up TiVo and watch CBS Sunday morning and start a new bear.