Journal Skirt Photos: WWSF, May 2005

Here are some photos of the skirt I made when WWSF met In Real Life in Austin, Texas, in May 2005. Roz flew down from Minneapolis (and drove home with us), and Karen and her wife, Cathy, flew in from Atlanta. Lucky Wendy lives in Austin, whose motto is "Keep Austin Weird." We pretended Karen came just to see us, but it was really to meet up with Her Real Friends she's known from grade school. You can imagine the grief we gave her about that. "Oh, that's OK, just go hang out with Your Real Friends," or "Yeah, we understand, we're not Your Real Friends." It's a wonder she didn't have us killed. "Us" meaning, um, pretty much just me.

I made the skirt from a pair of 501s beforehand and took it with me. I had everyone draw something or write something. Cathy didn't want to play and asked if she couldn't just pass some legislation for us, instead, so of course we all chortled happily and wrote that on the skirt. Silly woman, like she was going to get out of it that easily. I brought the skirt home and painted it and added the photos, which I transferred to cotton, and then I stitched everything. It took forever, as you might guess. It's been washed a couple times. And worn, of course.

OK, here you go. You can click to enlarge.