- Five days here and having a blast
- Zippers cut to fit and hardware at Botani
- Nice dinner with Carolyn from Diary of a Sewing Fanatic
- Time in the FIT library reading about fit, which I have decided I am really interested in
- Seeing more about drafting is instructive
- But's what with the "ideal figure"?
- You tell me one high hip from carrying babies around isn't ideal
- Or legs gone veiny from those 12 hour shifts
- Or bent necks from seeing what the kids have written at their desks
- Or earning a living over a keyboard
- Or pounds that came with the genes
- The same ones that gave you your smarts
- And your common sense
- Ideal figure, go figure
- But I did find out that I need to get a flexible ruler
- Been meaning to do that
- Spent time with the kids looking at new places with them
- Hope you don't mind this he said
- This isn't the sights
- Are you nuts?
- Don't they realize once they are off in the world
- All you really want is chances to be part of their real lives
- You can buy a farm in some places, a good one
- For a NY apartment
- However I am noticing there are a few things around here
- You don't have on the farm
- Just a few
- Turns out another mother from home is here visiting
- I know her from a sewing class and she has never done the garment district
- That will change tomorrow
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Flypaper thoughts New York edition
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6 comments:
It was great to have dinner with you too! Even though we did spend way tooo long talking politics! Next time you're in the city we should do it again.
Ideal figure, indeed. A perfect summation!
Very poetic. Very touching, this human condition.
Keep 'em comin'
And where are these lovely farms??? I think I need one.
Vancouver Barbara
I can't imagine anything better than dinner with you and Carolyn. Two of my favorite bloggers together!
I am going to have to check out the FIT library the next time I'm in NYC. Does FIT have a bookstore?
How great to get to tag along on the apartment shopping outing, that would be my choice over conventional sight seeing any day!
Thanks for sharing your trip!
ceci
I hope you have a chance to see the "Crochet Coral Reef Project" at the Museum of Art and Design at Columbus Circle. You will love it
Your post couldn't be more timely (although I've read your others on NYC). I'm heading down there for a girls' weekend and we've agreed that we will each have time on our own -- my time will be focused on sewing. I have too much beautiful fabric in my stash, but I was considering looking at the notions ... yet your comments about FIT piqued my interest. Can you just walk onto the campus and go to the library? Is it that simple?
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