Category Archives: Made by hand

Imperfect? Sometimes. And yet so much fun.

Carpentry for Women, part I: arriving

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Ali

Recently, I did a week-long Carpentry for Women class at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Warren, Vermont. I sat down to try to write about it, to capture some of how it felt to be there, and what came out … Continue reading →

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The house that Ali built

Posted on August 16, 2009 by Ali

More thoughts on caprentry…and on Vermont…and on my sunburned shoulders…and on my blisters…and on power tools…and on the kind of woman that chooses to spend a week’s vacation in the woods, swinging a hammer and cursing like a sailor. More … Continue reading →

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Don't take it from me: more on the hyperbolic coral reef

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Ali

Must be the zeitgeist. Here’s a talk from Margaret Wertheim herself on the hyperbolic crochet coral reef, from the TED lecture series. She tackles the mathematics of hyperbolic forms better than I did, and even holds up little models to … Continue reading →

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Kale, crochet and the hyperbolic coral reef project

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Ali

Look! The universe created a story just for me! It involves many items I currently list in the category of Lovely and Worthy Things: sea life, yarn, our natural world, activism, science that I don’t-quite-understand, and skills developed through simple, … Continue reading →

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Wood. Radical. Practical. Absurd. Me.

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Ali

I did something radical today. I did something radical and hilarious and expensive and yet wholly practical, all at once. There are not many things that are radical and hilarious and expensive and wholly practical all at the same time. … Continue reading →

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