Show Notes
<p><img src="/static/images/blog/christine-sewing.jpg" alt="Christine using the sewing machine" /></p><p>Christine finally overcomes her fear of the
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewing_machine">sewing machine</a>
and we talk about Christine and Morgan's respective experiences
learning it, and how you can pick it up too!</p><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Morgan's article on
<a href="https://mlemmer.org/blog/baskic_sewing_tutorial/">Basic Sewing Patterns</a>.
Includes pictures of the dicebag and skirt!
(More tutorials coming soon!)</p></li><li><p>You probably know what a
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewing_machine">sewing machine</a> is,
but isn't there always more to learn?</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lblum/PAPERS/CrossingCultures.pdf">A Cultural Perspective on Gender Diversity in Computing</a>
and <a href="https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~wolber/DigitalAccess/CMUWomen.pdf">Building an Effective Computer Science Student Organization: The Carnegie Mellon Women@SCSAction Plan</a>
(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.)</p></li></ul>