The Embroiderer's Story: 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway

Friday, December 20, 2013

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway - Day 7

Today we have a selection of three smalls - little kits given out during seminars. One is based off Pennsylvania show towels and another is that lovely mermaid!

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu.

(2) Put Mermaid in the subject line

(3) Put your mailing address in the body of the email. I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Dec 21th

Good luck and let's see what I have to give away tomorrow!

Tricia

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HelenDecember 22, 2013 at 7:09 PM
She is wonderful................hope I'm lucky and win her.
Helen G
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My Background and Passions

I've been embroidering or 'building with a needle' since I was four and started teaching embroidery to adults when I was 12. I went to MIT and got a PhD in engineering and helped to start a field called Electronic Textiles. I have always loved history as well and took some crazy-cool course work about using materials science as an archeological tool. That is the basis of my work in embroidery. I see my embroidery teaching as one facet of being a historian of textile materials culture.

Today, I balance three jobs - Thistle Threads, an engineering practice, and am a partner in Tokens and Trifles. It is crazy, but when you have many loves it is just what you do. Much of this is an outgrowth of how I think, which is a bit unusual since I am dyslexic.

In this blog you will notice themes that align with my passions: historic embroidery, teaching engineering to today's youth, and understanding different learning styles. In my off time, I coach a championship robotics team of teens as well as a team of elementary kids. I am really proud of them! Helping to develop E-Textile projects for summer camps to encourage girls in STEM is another activity that makes my plate pretty full.

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Friday, December 20, 2013

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway - Day 7

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