Just when I wonder why I keep Gizmodo in my RSS feeds, they come up with something like this. Apparently there is an Open Source Embroidery Movement in Great Britain. Go to the Gizmodo post for more images and commentary, but this also makes me think about how many of us in Computers and Writing are also crafty folk. Samantha Blackmon knits, Clancy Ratliff knits and does other DIY-type projects, as does my BGSU grad-school days cohorts Robin Murphy and Inez Schachterle.That’s just off the top of my head, so I know there are many more that I don’t know of, enough to fill an informal meet-up every year at the CCCC. I have my needlework roots also, especially as a former fashion design major who got very tired of sewing (thus, the 20-year gap and change). All the same, is there a connection between this creative need and more academic ones? Just thinking a bit.
Lanette Cadle 