And here I thought weaving in knitting ends was the most tedious job in the world! This is going to take me forever…
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Acquiring a new skill! This weaving business is addictive. I’m starting to regret not having enough room in my house for a floor loom… ☺️
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Korean food
Spicy cold noodles (bibim naengmyeon), made by me! With soba noodles, radish, cucumber, kimchi, and poached egg. 🍜 🇰🇷 (recipe)
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Weaving
Acquiring a new skill! This is addictive. I’m starting to regret not having enough room in my house for a floor loom… ☺️
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Some fun stuff happened in the past week: I caught up with multiple friends (including my amazing old Canva buddy Auguste Levanaite along with her husband Sean and baby Lucy); I was interviewed on a tech podcast about early retirement (I’ll share when it goes live); I had a great chat with a new mentee; I sewed myself a new pair of shorts; and Rodd and I finished up our volunteering at the Sydney Festival. The final event we supported was Vigil: Gunyah at the Barangaroo Reserve. We got to hear from three amazing First Nations women talking about self-care, staying connected with community, and how you can keep fighting even when the problems you face are systemic and too big for any one person to solve. I found it really inspiring, especially after a week when tech companies are deleting the diversity sections of their websites and kowtowing to bigots and xenophobes. I’m proud to have helped out with this event and the Festival, and happy to contribute to making Australia (and the world) a more vibrant, tolerant, welcoming place.
(And yeah, I will continue to minimise my time on this website going forward. Feel free to bookmark my website https://www.web-goddess.org if you want to know what I’m up to more regularly.)
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Bailee shorts
I need more shorts, I realised recently. Maybe I didn’t notice because I was working last summer? Anyway, it’s time to make some shorts. These are the Bailee shorts from Tessuti, and I made them in leftover fabric from the tiki wiggle dress I made 8 years ago. I had just enough material, though I did have to rotate the pockets and waistband off-grain. As usual with Tessuti patterns, they were mostly great but with a couple perplexing instructions. For example, the waistband piece is a long rectangle with a fold indicator on one short side, but the cutting diagrams show the long side placed across a fold. Well, which is it? If I do that, it’ll only be half as long as it’s meant to be! I followed my gut and did it the way that makes sense, but it was annoying. Anyway, they turned out wearable, which was all I wanted. The fabric is quite a thick cotton – almost a stretch sateen – so they don’t really drape, and they’re really more like Hawaiian shorts. I’ll do my next pair in a drapey linen to see how they compare…
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Auguste!
We had a wonderful time today catching up – for the first time in YEARS! – with my old Canva friend Auguste, her husband Sean, and their baby Lucy. We visited several fine Marrickville watering holes… 🍻
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Sydney Festival complete!
We finished our Sydney Festival experience for 2025 tonight at the volunteers’ party down at the Thirsty Mile. The Festival team put on food and drinks for us, and the CEO thanked everyone for all their hard work. We got to meet the new incoming Festival Director Kris Nelson, and we even got special certificates! This was a really fun experience, and I’m glad we were able to do it.
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Vigil: Gunyah
We had our final Sydney Festival volunteering shift today down at Barangaroo Reserve. We supported the “Caring for Spirit” talk as part of the Vigil: Gunyah series of First Nations events. It was very inspiring to hear from three smart, passionate Aboriginal women about how they support each other and their communities, and how they maintain their fire in spite of setbacks. (Very relevant to the world right now!)
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