Christine finally overcomes her fear of the

sewing machineand we talk about Christine and Morgan's respective experienceslearning 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.)