New instance, new #introduction!

Hello I'm Katie, and I like to practice making things. These days most of that goes into volunteering at #protohaven, a maker space in #pittsburgh, PA, where I'm using my comfort in the textiles area to boost me up into everything else (latest discovery: table saws are awesome). Currently in progress: a sheet metal and plasma cutter project to enhance my fabric stash storage; refurbishing a 1912 treadle Singer #sewing machine; and #reupholstering as many shitty techshop drafting/bar stools as I can before my attention span runs out. I'm a garment sewist but I've never really got along with commercial patterns. I live in a house over a hundred twenty years old and enjoy #repair in the spirit of that era. I am beginning to paddle in the #fountainPen pond.

I do a lot of personal recipe development for #vegan #fodmapFriendly dietary restrictions and will often post recipes here. I don't CW food photos but I do hashtag them if you need a wholesale filter.

Past passions have included vegetable gardening, sheep to yarn, plant based dyes, fermented foods, wine and beermaking, acrylic printmaking, nail art, calligraphy, embossing (the kind with the stylus and the kind with the heat gun).

I am constantly listening to #audiobooks, mostly speculative fiction.