42: Learning the Sewing Machine

Christine finally overcomes her fear of the
sewing machine
and we talk about Christine and Morgan's respective experiences
learning it, and how you can pick it up too!

Links:

Morgan's article on
Basic Sewing Patterns.
Includes pictures of the dicebag and skirt!
(More tutorials coming soon!)

You probably know what a
sewing machine is,
but isn't there always more to learn?

A Cultural Perspective on Gender Diversity in Computing
and Building an Effective Computer Science Student Organization: The Carnegie Mellon Women@SCSAction Plan
(On that note, when Christine was in college she attended a
presentation by Lenore Blum about women in CS, which is where the
potluck anecdote comes from.)