Fail - Kirsten Hammerstrom

Clothing/Fail/Living History/making things/Philosophy

2020 Vision

Posted on January 1, 2020 by kittycalash

We made it: another turn around the sun, another year, a time of resolutions and reflection. 2019 was the year I had three jobs, invented a job, and qualified f...

Events/Fail/Living History/personal

Night Clubbing

Posted on February 16, 2018 by kittycalash

Mountebanks and miscreants: how we love them. I have found myself in a situation of late that feels altogether too much like high school, and as a means of unde...

Clothing/Fail/Living History

Bad, Mad Skillz: An Origin Story

Posted on August 5, 2017 by kittycalash

I’ve been sewing clothes off and on for while, and sewing pretty constantly since the 1990s—baby quilts, piped slipcovers for vintage chairs, knitting needle ca...

Clothing/Fail/History/Living History/making things/personal

History Hurts

Posted on February 23, 2017 by kittycalash

We have been here before: terrible stays, stays in need of minor mods, and “it isn’t history till it hurts.” New this past weekend was the Busk Bust Blister (Bu...