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Zoe is Finished!

Zoe is one of the ladies of Firefly. She's a complicated woman, with great loyalty and skills with guns: "Zoë:(looking at a dress in a shop window) Too much foofarah. If I'm gonna wear a dress I want something with some slink. Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoë: I can hurt you." Wash is her husband and Jayne is a guy that lives on the same ship that she does. That is my interpretation of Zoe's 'Slink.' It's light as air and has just enough beads to make it shiny. Knitted from Misti Alpaca, it's knitted so that the diagonals work one way, then the next. I've added a beaded edge to the stole, much like the heavily decorated pallaus of a sari. The wardrobes in Firefly tend to mix Chinese and Indian styles in a very eye-catching way. Recovery from the surgery has accelerated in the last week. I feel much better and more like myself. I do find mysel