Events

Thanks to everyone who turned out in full force at the kick-off event for the Generation T book tour at the Park Slope Barnes & Noble! We rocked the house with a record-setting 77 people in attendance! My friend Sara was a fabulous model, as I refashioned her two-sizes-too-big boxy “I heart NY” shirt into a cute, fitted tank top. Folks followed along in the audience, and got to leave with some pretty hot party favors. Thanks everyone for being so supportive —what a great hometown crowd! I think that may just be the largest Tee Party yet. Of course, we’ve still got a few more cities to party it up in…

After the massive and beautiful blizzard that hit NYC last weekend, the Swap-o-rama-rama at Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn was rescheduled for Presidents Day. The giant clothing swap-plus-DIY fashion lost no momentum—it was a fascinating whirlwind of recycling, spring wardrobe shopping, screen-printing, sewing, and composting galore.

I met a charming woman who runs a “Re-imagine Style” fashion design contest to celebrate Earth Day up in Ithaca, NY. (Check out her website to enter a recycled design — hurry, deadline’s almost here!) Also, a fellow from the Botanic Gardens taught us about composting your textiles. (So, next time you’re wondering what to do with the T-shirt scraps you have left over from the skirt you made in Chapter 5, and you’ve exhausted the smaller accessories projects, don’t throw them away! You could help fertilize a garden come spring!)

And, of course, we had a very merry (and cozy) Tee Party on the stage. About 30 of you squeezed in to refashion an old T-shirt found among the piles of sorted clothes. At the end of the day, Wendy and Swap-O-Rama-Rama donated about 5,000 pounds of clothes! Good work, everybody. And, for all of you West Coasters, check out the site for details on the upcoming event at the end of April in San Fran! In the meantime, I’ll try to post some of the photos I took at the Brooklyn event soon!

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Tonight I attended a party hosted by two of my dear friends to celebrate both a late New Year’s as well as their respective joblessness. It also happened to mark the date my book released from the warehouse (yes, I’m a dork, I mark these things on my calendar and daydream abut them incessantly). I imagined it something like the scene in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, when all the Wonka Bar-laden trucks leave the factory (in a gracefully choreographed and edited segment) bound for destinations across the land…

Anyway, when I mentioned the significance of the January 28th date to my friends, they cheered the fact that we’d have yet another reason to toast… Little did I know, they had a little something up their T-shirt sleeves. When I showed up for the shindig, the girls were sporting projects they had made from an advance copy of Generation T—a little pre-party Tee Party. Very hot, ladies, very hot!