Swimsuit sew-along update

The swimsuit sew-along will hit the www Monday.

There has been a slight delay because my sister Nancy has herself a part-time job.

First of all you need to know that this sister is the one most like me in disposition.

You see she and her husband have moved to a new town, sort of a semi-retirement idea, and Nancy is trying to get herself integrated into the new community.

To make a long story short one day last week my brother-in-law was off doing some errand and my sister thought she would pop into a nice looking flower shop. In their last town Nancy was a florist.

When my brother-in-law came in to find her, well there was Nancy working behind the counter, helping out in a busy time. Of course she was hired. 

This is where I come in. Her new job is in one of those upscale floral outfits. The owner says that work attire has to be a grey linen Japanese apron. 

No problem said Nancy. She didn't have a clue what her new boss was talking about.

She and I found out exactly what a Japanese apron is on Pinterest, within minutes I had found a .pdf out of Singapore, and some grey linen down on the shelves in the basement where you can basically find pretty much anything.

So the swimwear sew-along will not get into high gear until next week as I have a very rush order on some Japanese aprons.

I also was thinking that there is some irony that I am starting a swimwear sew-along. I never really wore a swimsuit until I was in about grade 5.

We lived in a small town in the middle of Canada when I was growing up. The local Y there had a Swedish athletic director who for some reason had decided to move to rural Manitoba.

This Swedish athletic director was of course Swedish in her approach to physical fitness, so there we were all these prairie kids doing rhythmic gymnastics with streamers and balls in matching blue leotards. We saw this in some Olympic event once and I told my kids that I used to do that, and they thought I was nuts, but I did.

Well this Swedish athletic director had a theory that no one could learn to swim properly unless they were naked. So in this small town Y no kid was allowed to wear a bathing suit until puberty. I kid you not. An entire Y of naked kids in about as rural a town in the middle of nowhere as you could get. But if you think that people can't be open minded in little country towns well you haven't been to Brandon Manitoba also known as the Wheat City.

There are two things I would like to add. If you think I am making this up I can line up some more sisters for verification. Second thing is we are all great swimmers. We love the water.

So I might be a late starter in the swimsuit game, but I do have a lot of opinions.

Tune in next week.