Happy National Coming Out Day, folks. Reposting this speech of mine, with love. ***** BECAUSE Keynote 2014: Holding Hands I was nineteen years old, at a party in college, and this friend of mine, Kira, had just broken up with her live-in boyfriend. I asked her if she needed a place to crash, and she […]
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I’ve started brainstorming ideas for the Autumn 2022 Patreon treatboxes (theme: Wonderland), and I had a quick question — one of my subscribers said that she really just wanted the food treats, and felt bad that she didn’t use the other things I included. And another of my subscribers said that she wanted only non-food
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What does one wear to teach when one is feeling tired from a long travel day previously and need help motivating? I went for geeky cheer, pulling out my LotR map leggings, scarf, and mask. Very autumnal colors, too! This is a little tricky to reproduce, I’m afraid, because the fabric I used for the
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Another teaching day, another matching mask. (This is a Zoom pic even though it’s in-person teaching because I had two students sick who wanted to Zoom into class today; I generally allow that, since my classes are fairly small and it’s not too hard to manage.) This is another dress-to-tunic conversion; I think the print
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Part 3! Here’s the finished blouse & sari / lehenga, at the conference hotel. I had a frenzied moment at one point when I thought I’d pack up my sewing machine and take it to the hotel to finish some of it better, and then I thought, no — do what you can at home,
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So, what is a sari? It’s generally 6 yards (although that varies) of fabric (that should be long enough to go from your waist to the floor, with a few extra inches for tucking). That’s it. I, of course, had to make it harder — I’d recently worn a sari which had a nice layer
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Okay, so here I chronicle my attempt to make a sari and blouse from 1 – 3 a.m., during ChiCon. Um. It didn’t go exactly as planned. Step 1 — making the blouse. I had previously bought and downloaded a sari blouse pattern, and immediately realized that making a proper sari blouse (which is very
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