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Finishing Friday lost some time to physical therapy and pool walking, but I did manage to get this cut out. I'd gotten very lazy and have been cutting out patterns on the floor of our bedroom rather than clearing off the table in the sewing room, but there will be some SERIOUS time spent today clearing off the sewing table because it turns out that the last thing a tired and sore back appreciates is crawling around on the floor. Go figure. I made a bit of progress on the long-languishing jacket: which is ready for the top stitching to stitch down the facing: This is always the hardest part of this jacket pattern as no matter how carefully I pin, it puckers a bit. Yesterday I pressed the facing, then applied steam to the shoulder areas and let it hang on a suit hanger to dry. This is where a dressmaker's dummy would be REALLY nice to have, but I am considering holding off on that for another year until I've made a more visible dent in the sewing room. If I do ...