Tricia blogs at sewl33t.wordpress.com, and though she is not actually very l33t (elite) at sewing, she does take somewhat of a hacker approach to her garment construction endeavors - always trying to find a better way to do things, rarely making anything quite as intended by the designer, and taking great pleasure in reverse-engineering things she sees and decides she needs. Tricia learned to sew in middle school, but got more seriously into it as a young adult when she got into ballroom dance and could never find anything to wear to the ball. These days, besides sewing, she enjoys crochet, singing opera (very amateurly), and playing with horses. She works in a beige cube farm to fund her various passions.