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Twice a year, the biggest trade show for the outdoor industry takes place in Denver, Colorado. Ski makers, fabric vendors, apparel brands, and everyone in between come together to share industry best practices and network, network, network. For reasons that I will explain in a later post, I'm
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This post is part of a series called 2020: The Year of the Pants. Catch all of the posts via the YOTP tag. Now that we’ve got our first draft of the block, we need to try it on! While it might be tempting to get some awesome fabric
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This post is part of a series called 2020: The Year of the Pants. Catch all of the posts via the YOTP tag. Now that we have our tools and our measurements, it's time to start pattern drafting! I mentioned in my last post that I won'
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This post is part of a series called 2020: The Year of the Pants. Catch all of the posts via the YOTP tag. Patterns can be made either digitally or manually. In my patternmaking classes, I was taught to do it by hand, and then I eventually moved to doing
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This post is part of a series called 2020: The Year of the Pants. Catch all of the posts via the YOTP tag. Before we can make a pattern, we need really good measurements. It's important to take these well, as being off by even a quarter of
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This post is part of a series called 2020: The Year of the Pants. Catch all of the posts via the YOTP tag. Apparel prototyping is a lot like software prototyping, with one major difference: where software is a whole bunch of zeroes and ones, apparel exists in a physical
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This post is part of a series called 2020: The Year of the Pants. Catch all of the posts via the YOTP tag. So what, exactly, constitutes a "perfect" pair of hiking pants? 1. FIT! And not just fit "well enough," either: when I'm
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This post is part of a series called 2020: The Year of the Pants. Catch all of the posts via the YOTP tag. In this Year of the Pants, it's important to be very specific about what kind of pants I'm going to be making. tl;
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Ohai friends. It's been a really long time since my last year-in-review (2015, by the looks of things). A whole lot has changed in my life, both personally and professionally. There have been ups and downs and all arounds, but I'm still here and you'
public speaking
When it comes to giving talks, here are the major things I try to keep in mind: 1. It doesn't matter if the audience is 5 or 500; they are all there to hear YOU speak, and are eager to learn. 2. Instead of thinking about your speech
human-in-the-machine
1. When everything is falling apart around you: pick one thing - one tiny thing - and do it. More often than not, it's just the impetus you need to get into something bigger. Sometimes it's all you can actually do, and you'll at
Optimise your code for a better onboarding experience Raquel Vélez looks at how an onboarding-focused approach to development can help get new coders started as efficiently as possible Your newest teammate has just pulled the codebase onto their machine for the first time. Unfortunately for them, everyone is away at