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