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In this Very Spot
Kat Gordon
This program acknowledges the many forms of craft that exist, and the meaningfulness of practicing a craft, this craft, your craft. Your “20 minutes of craft" may be spent in the company of your knitting, attempting a perfect cut crease eye shadow, tending to a vat of indigo, building a barricade, mending an old sock, or some other method of craft.
When: At this moment.
Where: In this very spot.
Attire: Whatever you have on.
Biography
Kat Gordon
She/Her/Hers
Written by Laurin Guthrie
Kat Gordon is a researcher, writer, knitter, parent, rad community organizer, friend, player of games, and all-around badass. She approaches her work on craft with the same fierceness and care that she brings to every part of her life. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in a community of friends and family, where she reads and writes about craft from her garden and the Lego cities constructed by her child. She can often be found in the company of one of the many animals with whom she shares her home, though she is quick to note that she herself did not bring home a single one of them. Perhaps they were drawn to her, knowing that she would care for them deeply, the way she does for everyone and everything in her life.
Kat has managed to knit more socks and washcloths during her first year of grad school than I have managed in my twenty-four years as a knitter. The things she makes she uses and shares, very much embodying the ideas of a crafted life which she writes about in her research work. When not knitting, writing, or reading, Kat may be found processing food from her family’s garden for storage, or homeschooling, virtually farming, learning to play the violin, strategizing over a board game, practicing her faith, or in any number of other ways crafting a joyful and exuberant life for herself and her community.