On Thu, 7 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, my geek friend is also into sewing, also for SCA costuming purposes,
> and we got chatting about the way we sew. See, sewing is hacking. You
> have a problem which you have to solve with a mixture of intuition,
> design, mathematics, and concentration. Especially for those of us who
> don't use pre-bought patterns, the design process and the topological
> contortions required have a *really* hackish feel to them.
Yep!
I like knitting because you can *start somewhere* and not have to commit
to a design until later, which is rather more difficult with sewing. In
knitting, you're adding fabric; in sewing you're removing it.
> My friend then pointed out that both his programs and his sewing projects
> share another common problem -- he has heaps of them lying round half-
> finished. Well, so do I.
Obviously a "multiple projects person." I no longer sew, but I spin and I
knit. When I did sew, I had a lot of sewing lying around like you do. Now
it's all knitting. I currently have four unfinished projects plus the
no-brainer I started last night because all the others were at the stage
where they required too damn much thinking -- and I was sick and in pain
and cold.
Knitting is also much cozier, I might add, for the cat (without all those
nasty pins!).
> Now, whether it has anything to do with being a Taurus or not, I'm inclined
> to believe that hacking and sewing have a *lot* in common, and that I get
> bits of my hacker mentality (the creative bits) from my mother, while my
> father (who used to be a systems engineer for IBM when I was a kid) got
> me going with Lego Technic and electronics kits and my first C64.
In my case, my dad sews better than my mom. :)
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