Summer batik project, part one!

So, in addition to this high-profile day job i have as a professional costumer (ha), i am also a writer--not only of labricoleuse , but of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. (That's right, i even have a Goodreads Author Page to prove it!) This project i'll be writing up in two parts is kind of a crossover of sorts; bear with me.

Most of what i have published so far has been short-form work--essays, short stories, short memoir--in journals, magazines, and anthologies. The obvious exception...