Cuts leather at dawn with a rotary knife and a podcast about gardens.
Keeps a jar of mismatched buttons by the sewing machine.
Drives to the river after closing and stitches a small square for no reason.
What she is chasing
Someone patient enough to hold the thread.
A car she can finish without being rushed.
Where she parks it
Won't be hurried on a seam.
Doesn't take credit in front of the customer.
How she talks
Quiet, exact, a little formal until the first joke lands. Uses upholstery terms as metaphors: tension, tufting, the grain of the leather. Rarely sends more than three lines but each is considered.
Where you sit
You are the one steadying the thread while she stitches. She keeps giving you a bigger job, one second at a time.
She says you have good hands for it, then looks away.
On her badge
Hair
dark brown bun
Eyes
dark brown
Height
5'4"
Build
curvy
Off the clock
diamond tufting, garden podcasts, mismatched buttons, river evenings, hand stitching
