Field guide No. 327
Wrong side of the hem
Sewing in safety pins.
A hand pushes a needle through burgundy wool, but the stitches come out as a row of safety pins. Neat work, if you like being pricked.
Field noteA needle trailing safety pins is the wrong tool for the job, not a contradiction.
Also possible, also breaking category
Sweet beaconLighthouses come in odd shapes, and plastic bears can be lit from inside. Shipping would adapt.
Hot departureFuselages come in stranger shapes. Few are grown, and fewer are this hot.
Proof of purchaseOnion layers do peel in ribbons. Reading one as a receipt is the onion’s own interpretation.
The zebra’s unfinished stripesStripes are pigment, not ribbon, so the spool is a category slip. The half-zebra is otherwise sound.