I’m a prairie kid who loves research. I have a Master’s in economics with a focus on public programs, labour and education. Long before that, I did my undergrad in physics & English with a math minor.

Besides my resume, you’ll find this page full of sewing projects, the odd published poem, and stories about Canadian science.

A note about the blog title: in math and physics, the prefix eigen means one's own. It comes from the german, but mostly I always liked thinking about a particle's eigenvalues, and thought I might apply the same thought to my excursions.

Figuring out my classic shirt

Figuring out my classic shirt

Victoria Martinez
Sewing

Round one was OK, but it wasn’t quite there.

Round two is almost a perfect base shirt.

Surprisingly to me, because I was fairly happy with the first draft, I added quite a bit of ease to this shirt. 5/8” to each centre front piece and another 1/4” at the shoulders, tilting the armscye. Along with the change to the sleeve shape that I did last time, this feels like an entirely new draft at this point! And I love the kind of weird shaped armscye that I’ve been left with.

Annnnyway, I did make one wild mistake on this shirt, and that was I somehow shortened the back but not the front? It has created an automatic French tuck shirt, where the back will not stay tucked in but the front basically has to be, aesthetically, and does so securely.

I think the next round is either to return to the original pattern attraction: the trench capelet (I love a capelet, it turns out?) or to make a western shirt and really put to use the beautiful wonderful fringe my husband got me for Orville Peck mask purposes back in 2020.

Next time: Tiny bit more ease at neckline, true front and back lengths. Double check the pattern corresponds to this shirt in case I didn’t transfer all errors!

Kiki Balloon Pants

Kiki Balloon Pants
Swimsuit of compromises!

Swimsuit of compromises!

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