15.05.20

Kris Nelson

she/her
Intermediate Sewist + Advanced Beginning Knitter

I am an architecture professor by day, and a sewist and knitter by nights/weekends. I like to sew lots of neutral basics from indie and Japanese patterns. I learned to sew from Japanese language pattern books, hence Sewing By Letters.

What influence does music have in your life as a creative?:

This maybe isn’t the answer that most people in this project will give, but I usually only listen to music when I already have worked through the problem and am executing the plan, or as a last resort to block out larger distractions. When I am concentrating very hard, or trying to figure something out for the first time, I ideally like to work in silence. I often wear noise blocking headphones when I do academic writing or calculations or I am working through pattern alterations, hacks or complicated pattern matching.

Tell us about your playlist:

Yikes…..just the sounds of over 40 trips around the sun.

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Maker Sounds from SewingByLetters


  1. Forget That You’re Young – The Raveonettes
  2. You Wish You Were Red – Trailer Trash Tracys
  3. Now or Never Now – Metric
  4. Counting Days – Wild Nothing
  5. Burn – The Cure
  6. Elevator Love Letter – Stars
  7. Soon – The Cars
  8. The Outdoor Type – The Lemonheads
  9. Alex Chilton – The Replacements
  10. Sh-Boom – Remastered – The Crew Cuts
  11. Tunnel of Love – Bruce Springsteen
  12. Never Ending Circles – CHVRCHES
  13. Just Like Honey – The Jesus and Mary Chain
  14. Ceremony – Version 1; 2016 Remaster – New Order
  15. Lost in the Supermarket – Remastered – The Clash
  16. Where Do I Begin – The Chemical Brothers
  17. Torch Singer – Buffalo Tom
  18. Miss World – Hole
  19. Somebody to Shove – Soul Asylum
  20. Raspberry Beret – Prince
  21. The Promise – Tracy Chapman
  22. Meet Me in the Woods – Lord Huron
  23. Two Weeks – FKA twigs
  24. A Real Hero – Electric Youth, College
  25. Young Blood – Renholdër Remix – The Naked And Famous, Renholder
  26. Worked Up So Sexual – The Faint
  27. Little Bit – Lykke Li
  28. I’m A Lady (feat. Trouble Andrew) – Santigold, Trouble Andrew
  29. Only You – Yazoo
  30. Sweet Thing – 1999 Remaster – Van Morrison
  31. Bad Ones (feat. Tegan and Sara) – Matthew Dear, Tegan and Sara
  32. Heaven – The Psychedelic Furs
  33. Lips Like Sugar – Echo & the Bunnymen
  34. This Is the Day – The The
  35. If You Leave – Remastered 2019 – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
  36. Beautiful Girl – INXS
  37. Girlfriend – Matthew Sweet
  38. Waiting for Somebody – Paul Westerberg
  39. Shine All the Time – Blue Moon Ghetto
  40. Murder (Or a Heart Attack) – Old 97’s
  41. Dance All Night – Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
  42. Can’t Hardly Wait – 2008 Remaster – The Replacements
  43. The Call of the Wreckin’ Ball – The Knitters