One last order

I was almost done. One final custom order and then I could stop for the season. 

Except I kept putting it off. The customer came to my office to drop off the clothes she wanted me to use for the bears - some shirts and pajama pants that belonged to her father - and it was an entire trash bag full.

I put off looking until Friday and then I realized that there were only a few usable items in the whole lot and whizzed through and picked them out - three shirts and two pair of pajama pants. The man in question was a sizable gentleman (6XL) and the images on all the shirts were scaled up, so the only ones I could actually use on a bear body were the fire department embroideries from two shirts.

Hi-viz yellow and orange wouldn't have been my first choice, but they worked, and they'll certainly be recognizable to the family members. 

Once I decided on the fabrics, I contacted the customer and made arrangements for her to pick up yesterday, which gave me Friday night to cut and Saturday - Monday to assemble, stuff and do the finish work. I actually finished Sunday evening and took them to work on Monday, to get ahead of myself.

NOW I can relax.