That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 01, 2022

All the neighbors showed up, but no one could figure out how to fold the fitted sheets.

/// Seven people are Sewing the Sail

into clothing that’s massive in scale.

A ship’s captain in Spain

made his bride’s gown and train

from a spinnaker. (Bride was a whale.)

/// The amount of fine lace she’d have needed

for a gown would have greatly exceeded

what the Cap could afford.

He had sailors on board.

“Bring me canvas,” the groom-to-be pleaded.

/// Although rough and thick, sailcloth is white.

Both the gown and long train looked all right.

But the veil was opaque

forcing bridegroom to make

two round eyeholes restoring her sight.

/// She had wanted to walk down the aisle

in the best matrimonial style,

but her butt was too wide

to march down side-by-side,

so they all had to go single file.

“The bride has to be in here somewhere.”

The Lilliputians, sewing Gulliver’s burial shroud

The bride is here for her final fitting. I’m afraid she’s gained more weight than we expected.

is that a monochromatic quilting bee?

Looks like a sale on sails no?

when class is held indoors everyone really has a hard time with billowing…

The sudden, unexpected assault by Christo left everyone dazed and confused.

Sales, not sails….

Training class for folding fitted sheets

At the merest mention of sails/

The face of the seamstress pales../

She’s sewn sails before/

And her hands are still sore/

From the effort such sewing entails../

The strongest of seamstresses quails/

At the thought of the howling gales/

As the ship goes down..

And the fortune she spent on her nails ?

“You can squeeze the sails, you can lick the decks”

The bride was by no means a ‘bride-zilla’ but being her bridesmaid was no picnic either.

I saw the parachite go down, I know there’s a guy in there somewhere!!

When they said that Señora Bertilda had gone up a bit in tonnage before her wedding, they weren’t kidding!

Thankfully, the fleet was in, and sails were on sale.

Somehow, the “Goodyear Blimp” people had managed to get the material through their printer. (Well, it had ‘seamed’ like a good idea…) The 200,000-point font typeface sure took a lot of ink.

The governess needed help to take down the drapes and sew clothes for all those children.

Oh for goodness sake, ask the Weasleys to bring their wands over to help us raise this marquee.

“O.K., next time I’m ordering custom fitted slipcovers.”

It wasn’t long before Tom Sawyer fooled people again into doing his work for him.

The Casper balloon after snagging a light pole.

Here’s a little- known fact thatijustmadeup: Well-known Austrian composer Franz von Suppé, (1819-1895) also had a profitable Spanish ship-sails weaving business called Suppé Sails Sales. Both Poets and Peasants were employed there. A small orchestra played popular musical themes from his operettas. For rush orders, appropriate sections of “The Light Cavalry Overture” set the pace.

Poet and Peasant Overture

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MhWRmtsPCdM

Light Cavalry Overture:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MhWRmtsPCdM

Half an hour earlier: “How hard could it be to set up a hammock?”

Oh darn it! I dropped my needle in there…….

The folks at the logging camp decided to give Paul fitted sheets for Christmas.

Sally was definitely more than three sheets to the wind.

“We had to have these custom-made. Apparently, they’re not standard king-size sheets.”

And after David Copperfield snapped his fingers, the bodies of the ladies in the wedding party disappeared.

Sewing the sail: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by Joaquín Sorolla" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Cosiendo, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this huge painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3036 (December 1, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 4 works by this artist (5 times, including a repeat), have been used here. The August 8, 2019, strip shows the prior.

Jose in had has second thoughts about cookie and his weeding after seeing her wedding gown,is she going to be this excessive forever.

For tomorrow:

You must remember this/

A kiss is still a kiss/

A mirror is still a mirror/

It simply won’t get any clearer/

When you get nearer..

There’s a wealth of subtle shadow color in that presumably basically white sail—and a riot of intense hues to port and starboard.

Suzy sells sails to seamstresses on the seashore.