#dhsewing — Public Fediverse posts

A great dataviz essay on clothes and the proportions of American women, including a section on the power of learning how to sew for your actual size and shape! #DHmakes #DHsewing

Sizing chaos

Today I'm subbing in an Environmental Humanities class, showing them makerspaces, so I assembled An Outfit for the occasion. Always love taking @skgoetz.bsky.social beautiful lace shawl out for the day, along with some new and old favorites from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Local tween surprised me with the news that his D&D friend's birthday party was today, so whipped up a little dice bag and super (good/bad) luck pendant that should do the trick. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Had a rare quiet afternoon at home yesterday so I whipped up a t-shirt for the GM of my girlfriend's long-running D&D game, with matching dresses for his toddler and baby. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Even when the world is terrible, having the new grad students show up, full of excitement and getting lost, reminds me why I love my job. Paired last night's little t-shirt creation with the Academic Tarot Deck, which felt right for the occasion. #DHsewing #DHmakes

Tomorrow is the orientation for new grad students, and I've reworked a dress that I loved in theory but never quite fit the way I wanted it to, along with an XL t-shirt I ordered from Ukraine in 2022 into a new shirt, vaguely SUCHO themed, for the occasion. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Brought out the glitchy robot dress (since adopted by my girlfriend) for running a panel on AI this afternoon. Creepily cheerful robot earrings from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social. #DHsewing #DHmakes

Today I'm teaching a sorta impromptu embroidery workshop, so it's stitches pants, stitch-like glasses and mask, and some sparkly goodness from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social just for fun. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Thinking of the quote from @sheerspite.bsky.social about building bridges back to older versions of yourself, today. I made this outfit maybe a decade ago. Fish eating brain design was UChicago library graffiti. Jewelry, though, is new joys from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Still on leave, but came in today to talk about SUCHO and AI with the Estonian Minister of Culture. Made some SUCHO pants last night, the top is my current dataviz embroidery of kid custody and where I sleep, and I have a spicy t-shirt underneath on the theme of AI. 🥰 #DHmakes #DHsewing

Today there's interviews for an #API data #curator position so thought I'd riff on #data, Python(s), and other thrashy things with teeth. #DHsewing #DHmakes

I swear for once I have no particular vendetta against one of today's meetings or whatever, I just woke up this morning and felt like this, for whatever reason, is a good day for #sharks. Both dress and earrings, kraken #shawl, and swirly glasses. #DHsewing #DHmakes

I didn't know what to wear for the last day of the #DHRPG, but when I saw the #AnimalCrossing Celeste dress, I realized the character final D20 rolls are all wishing upon stars. The vibes were right for all the character endings. But oh, I'm going to miss this class and its world. #DHmakes #DHsewing #DigitalHumanities

Decided to go Animal Crossing (2020 project throwback with @EMGrumbach ✨) for teaching a new student assistant things around the Makerspace, and holding a pocket hacking workshop. Also did some lossless data compression on the guestbook loom. #DHsewing #DHmakes

Can't believe today I donned my DM hat for the penultimate time for this quarter. 😭 @Halperta joined us today to talk a little about why we do collaborative projects anyway, so I had to wear my Academic Tarot Deck dress. I'm going to miss the DH RPG. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Presenting and moderating at a symposium on #AI and the #Humanities to cap off our admitted student visit today, so it's data and redacted data and the fire shawl for #DHsewing.

But what I'm really truly excited about is the decision to just sit down and work on warping my floor loom. #DHmakes

Welcome to the DLCL, where we run on large quantities of #languages and #coffee!

It's the admitted grad student visit day that my colleague who passed away this week worked so hard on. We're going to try to do him proud.

Me, I embroidered a welcome sign for a late arrival. #DHmakes #DHsewing #DigitalHumanities

Today we're talking project endings in the #DHRPG class, and I'm doing project manager interviews for the #Unicode project. So what better outfit than my favorite dead script? Also have my "I voted" sticker; doing my part to make democracy not a dead project. #DHmakes #DHsewing #voting

Yesterday I taught a workshop on DH for #dissertation... AKA, how to glue a unicorn horn on your T-Rex. #DHmakes #DHsewing #DigitalHumanities

Today we talked project maintenance and #sustainability in the #DHRPG class. So: tentacles. 🐙 Meanwhile, my amazing colleagues printed me a "presentation copy" with hand marbled paper cover of my awkward and oversized #Unicode paper draft! 😍 #DHmakes #DHsewing #DigitalHumanities

TFW you're doing #Unicode project PM interviews and getting feedback on your Unicode paper in the library writing group, but you're also teaching #budgets and indirect cost rates and you're equally committed to both things. Time for ✨mid-day costume change✨! #DHsewing #DHmakes

What to wear on a day with a #Transkribus/HTR workshop and an AI & copyright workshop? This fun medieval dress with plenty of AI-esque tropes & hallucinations. Striped (AKA baseline detection) leggings plus necklace from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social. #DHsewing #DHmakes #DigitalHumanities

Yesterday: Unicode project PM interviews. Today: talking about tenure in the #DHRPG class means it's time for the shark dress I sewed for the 2020 class's conversation on that same topic. #DHsewing #DHmakes #DigitalHumanities

Yesterday we talked about community from @halperta.bsky.social "Finding Your Purpose" workbook so I had to go with the #DataSittersClub multilingual dress. And the new shawl I finished recently, shared with a student who got too cold when the sunshine that drew us outside faltered. #DHsewing #DigitalHumanities #DHmakes

I don't wear this dress often, but about once a year I need a pick-me-up when I'm facing my long commute on a #rainy day. New #shawl with special #yarn from Boulder, CO and New Orleans last summer, just finished over the weekend. #DHsewing #DHmakes

Today we're getting into the weeds about how universities actually work, reading about boards and faculty and research and their roles in institutions. The dress I first sewed for a chained book event at the Library felt apt. #DHsewing #DHmakes #DigitalHumanities

Had several meetings today that I'd rather not, but came prepared with my #cactus dress and stealth #kraken shawl. The #DHRPG class remains such a beam of light, gloriously messy and complicated and hilarious and real. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Today in the #DHRPG class, we venture forth. (Probably. Or maybe we'll just finish our character sheets and set up our goals and tracking infrastructure and be ready for Thursday. But I'm excited and ready if we do venture forth.) #DHsewing #DigitalHumanities

Today I'm helping out as a scribe for an Environmental Humanities workshop, so it's a sunflowers and Yellowstone shawl day. #DHsewing #DigitalHumanities #Environment

Last day before winter shutdown and I found a beloved old t-shirt with one of my favorite pieces of #UChicago #graffiti from my first book (stolen twice from the UChicago #library). Cleaning the Makerspace today. It's winter break: rethink your life, go to Italy, be a cobbler. #DHsewing

Today is my last day lecturing in the #AI class so I made a tunic from imagined redacted government documents about alien invasions, along with my data pants and the fire shawl I've been knitting for the last month. #OpenAI drama, #EA / #EAcc, org models, human relationships, and all that jazz! #DHsewing

Today we're doing #Bourdieu and #CulturalCapital in the undergrad #AI class so I've got my #medieval peasants and cathedral stained glass dress today. And some edgy #knights on the sleeves, just for fun. #DHsewing

Today we're doing #Bourdieu and #CulturalCapital in the undergrad #AI class so I've got my #medieval peasants and cathedral stained glass dress today. And some edgy #knights on the sleeves, just for fun. #DHsewing

Today we're doing #Bourdieu and #CulturalCapital in the undergrad #AI class so I've got my #medieval peasants and cathedral stained glass dress today. And some edgy #knights on the sleeves, just for fun. #DHsewing

Today we're doing #Bourdieu and #CulturalCapital in the undergrad #AI class so I've got my #medieval peasants and cathedral stained glass dress today. And some edgy #knights on the sleeves, just for fun. #DHsewing

Today we're doing #Bourdieu and #CulturalCapital in the undergrad #AI class so I've got my #medieval peasants and cathedral stained glass dress today. And some edgy #knights on the sleeves, just for fun. #DHsewing

Creepy anglerfish and tentacles dress was speaking to me this morning for Friday the 13th (also, add/drop deadline and with 60 students and a wait list, that's legit scary). Wrapped up my first little experiment on the #TextileMakerspace rigid heddle #loom. #DHsewing

Creepy anglerfish and tentacles dress was speaking to me this morning for Friday the 13th (also, add/drop deadline and with 60 students and a wait list, that's legit scary). Wrapped up my first little experiment on the #TextileMakerspace rigid heddle #loom. #DHsewing

Creepy anglerfish and tentacles dress was speaking to me this morning for Friday the 13th (also, add/drop deadline and with 60 students and a wait list, that's legit scary). Wrapped up my first little experiment on the #TextileMakerspace rigid heddle #loom. #DHsewing

Creepy anglerfish and tentacles dress was speaking to me this morning for Friday the 13th (also, add/drop deadline and with 60 students and a wait list, that's legit scary). Wrapped up my first little experiment on the #TextileMakerspace rigid heddle #loom. #DHsewing

Creepy anglerfish and tentacles dress was speaking to me this morning for Friday the 13th (also, add/drop deadline and with 60 students and a wait list, that's legit scary). Wrapped up my first little experiment on the #TextileMakerspace rigid heddle #loom. #DHsewing

It's a day of #TextileMakerspace meetings and fiddling with #looms so I'm channeling the Able Sisters. I'm so excited to have fixed the problem with the rigid heddle loom. Let the #weaving commence! #DHsewing #ACNH

It's a day of #TextileMakerspace meetings and fiddling with #looms so I'm channeling the Able Sisters. I'm so excited to have fixed the problem with the rigid heddle loom. Let the #weaving commence! #DHsewing #ACNH

It's a day of #TextileMakerspace meetings and fiddling with #looms so I'm channeling the Able Sisters. I'm so excited to have fixed the problem with the rigid heddle loom. Let the #weaving commence! #DHsewing #ACNH

It's a day of #TextileMakerspace meetings and fiddling with #looms so I'm channeling the Able Sisters. I'm so excited to have fixed the problem with the rigid heddle loom. Let the #weaving commence! #DHsewing #ACNH

It's a day of #TextileMakerspace meetings and fiddling with #looms so I'm channeling the Able Sisters. I'm so excited to have fixed the problem with the rigid heddle loom. Let the #weaving commence! #DHsewing #ACNH

This morning I found the perfect dress for "I'm teaching PCA today but mostly I'm just excited about the floor loom showing up after class." #DHsewing #DigitalHumanities #loom #weaving #TextileMakerspace

Rhyming is a cheap hack for relevance, but I couldn't resist bringing "fashion" to the "passion" pop-up exhibit at the Library with the Mobile #TextileMakerspace. Today's dress is 1924, a mix of magazines and fashion catalogs. And Dr Cheese Bones held a sign I embroidered today, with a salvaged screw-up. #DigitalHumanities #DHsewing #embroidery

Today I'm running an event at the #TextileMakerspace so I made a new dress last night. Calling this one "sewing is fun and easy and you should try it". 😂 The skirt is reminiscent of a Japanese sewing pattern with all the pieces laid out on top of one another. #DHsewing