I left Dr. HM a copy of The Last Unicorn in his mailbox a few weeks ago, because since we were talking about voices in novels ala Bakhtin, I thought he might find that a good novel to read. He responded by leaving a copy of The Complete Stories of JG Ballard in my mailbox! I can't bloody reading his handwriting but I THINK the post-it says "Jaymee ( Read more... )

A Cognitive Defense of Stimming (or why Quet Hands makes math harder)

Brain study shows body clocks of depressed people are altered at cell level

I started a Watch2gether room for sewing tutorials and all the episodes of the first season of the Great British Sewing Bee, and I called it the Sewcial Justice room (we have a tag on Tumblr called that ( Read more... )

Made my first pair of panties since taking the class last year, and it turned out rather well, I think!

Here are some pics of the process on Tumblr:
Gusset sewn in, still no elastics (I actually tried sewing it on last night and it went wrong)
Photos of elastic, elastic pinned in for the first round of sewing, then after it's folded over again ( Read more... )

In my quest to make Nisi a bra that fits, I have finished a tester bra! It is unsightly imperfect: I used print cotton and forgot to pre-shrink it, I used white thread on dark brown all over the place, the cloth part of the straps aren't long enough, and the elastic of the straps, well, there are two sizes. I tend to buy bra findings in a kit, like ( Read more... )

After a terrible day of waking up late and then not being able to do anything due to a migraine and attempting to rest but just, everything was bleh. It was a bleh kind of day.

So in the end I gave up the whole idea of reading and pulled out my table and started fixing my skirt! Turns out I still had to install a zipper, but with the elastic in ( Read more... )

I wrote two poems in two days! What a surprise. I thought I was completely lacking in creative energy after that terrible quarter ( Read more... )

Met up with Nalo today to hang out. She gave me a copy of SISTER MINE! ^_____________^ \(^o^)/ We bused to Day St, where I promptly forgot how to get to Jo-Ann and had to think a long time. Found it, of course, because it is not easy to stump me for long. I needed some ribbon for my dress, and she needed yarn. I also ended up buying some more ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to make a dress out of this awful skulls fabric I bought a while back for $4/yard XD It's pretty metal. And I wanted to try my hand at making in-seam pockets. So this afternoon, I drafted the pattern using pre-existing stuff I made before (the front is going to be a halter-neck because it seems the easiest but still exciting ( Read more... )

Monday. What did I do on Monday? I can't remember. Maybe I cleaned a little bit. I know there was some back and forth with Dr. S about the final grades ( Read more... )

Despite a terrible interlude in which I had to attend a rollerskating party during which I fell about thrice, on my hands even, which meant a lot of trembling and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to finish sewing, I managed to finish this, and on time!

Either way, drafted and sewn all in one day, with some fancy tape Wilma gave me, is a new ( Read more... )