Flypaper thoughts New York edition

• 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