I wound a bobbin! 🧵

No YOU meant to go to bed an hour ago but got distracted by online window-shopping for sewing supplies. 🧵

We share our hot takes in order that we may refine them: Makerspaces should consider sewing equipment equally valid when compared with digital fabrication equipment. (Thanks Heather Moorefield-Lang @actinginthelib & Bethany Smith @bethanyvsmith for helping me refine my thoughts.) 🧵

A refinement of my earlier hot take: a sewing machine with a zigzag stitch should be considered basic equipment for a makerspace; if you have the money, it’d be great to get a serger, too. 🧵

Hot take: A serger should be assumed basic equipment in every makerspace. 🧵

Want to read: Craftfulness by Rosemary Davidson and Arzu Tahsin 📚🧵🧶

I’ve got all the pieces of my sewing machine, my sewing basket, 2 sewing books, and 2 sewing classes on Blueprint/Once-and-Future-Craftsy, so GET READY FOR SEWING-RELATED CONTENT. 🧵