The first thing going on is I made an account on spoonflower, which is an Indy fabric design site, and I entered a design of mine in their weekly contest. My design is called Lace, and my username is alyhillary.
Voting is on the community pages, here: http://www.spoonflower.com/contests/340
You do need to have an account on spoonflower in order to vote in the weekly contests, and when you vote, you do have the option to favorite designs at the same time. The votes are the green checkboxes at the top left of the designs, while the favorites are the red hearts. (Obviously, I appreciate both/either of votes and favorites.)
I also ordered some fabric for my own use, which is largely going to mean skirts. Since the knit fabrics are pretty wide, I can make a long skirt with pockets out of one yard. Fairly high on my design list is making a nice pattern in red, orange, and taupe, since those are the colors I've seen used by counter-events to light it up blue. Why choose only one counter-event when I can choose them all?
So that's thing the most recent that's been going on. I've also been working on applications to doctorate programs, where I want to mix my engineering and math background with my disability activism and disability studies interests. What I think that means is funky approaches to disability-friendly design. I'm not accepted anywhere yet but I made the interview stage for MIT, which is super exciting.
And of course, I'm still a masters student and TA in a department where TA means I teach a class. That means I take two math classes myself, and I'm teaching a section of intro to college algebra this semester as well. Then I'm taking multicultural psychology online because I think it's interesting. Maybe I'll even start posting more regularly by way of sticking my writing for that class on here.
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| Geometric lace pattern in pastel green, peach, and tan |
You do need to have an account on spoonflower in order to vote in the weekly contests, and when you vote, you do have the option to favorite designs at the same time. The votes are the green checkboxes at the top left of the designs, while the favorites are the red hearts. (Obviously, I appreciate both/either of votes and favorites.)
I also ordered some fabric for my own use, which is largely going to mean skirts. Since the knit fabrics are pretty wide, I can make a long skirt with pockets out of one yard. Fairly high on my design list is making a nice pattern in red, orange, and taupe, since those are the colors I've seen used by counter-events to light it up blue. Why choose only one counter-event when I can choose them all?
So that's thing the most recent that's been going on. I've also been working on applications to doctorate programs, where I want to mix my engineering and math background with my disability activism and disability studies interests. What I think that means is funky approaches to disability-friendly design. I'm not accepted anywhere yet but I made the interview stage for MIT, which is super exciting.
And of course, I'm still a masters student and TA in a department where TA means I teach a class. That means I take two math classes myself, and I'm teaching a section of intro to college algebra this semester as well. Then I'm taking multicultural psychology online because I think it's interesting. Maybe I'll even start posting more regularly by way of sticking my writing for that class on here.
you... you can *make* a fabric design?
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Yeah!
DeleteI've made a couple skirts already from fabric designs I stuck on Spoonflower.