Thanks to a lot of help from my mom the zipper is pinned in place and will get sewn in tomorrow while I watch the new episode of Carnivale.  This means I might actually have a finished Mariah to show off tomorrow.  Maybe.  Not making any promises.

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To give up, that is.  Mariah is giving me fits.  I now have two zippers, an 18 inch (since that is what the pattern said I would need) and a 22 inch (since that is what my measurements said I would need).  The 18 inch is too short, the 22 inch too long.  Yesterday the 22 inch was fine, I just couldn’t get it pinned in.  Either Mariah is shrinking or my zipper is growing.  So, now I get to go back to the fabric store and buy another zipper, this time a 20 inch.  After that, Mariah will probably end up 50 inches long and need a 70 inch zipper.  Who knows.  But I’m about to give up on the whole thing.  One more trip to the store is all it gets.

I’m going to read and knit on Wavy.  Blah.