Hi.

I’m Victoria, and this site mostly has my sewing projects and science writing, with a sprinkling of older poetry & etc.

I’m a prairie kid, parent of two, celiac, and like lane swimming. I love to research. I did my undergrad in physics & English with a math minor. I’m now doing a Master’s in economics.

A note about the blog title: in math and physics, the prefix eigen means one's own. It comes from the german, but mostly I always liked thinking about a particle's eigenvalues, and thought I might apply the same thought to my excursions.

2-headed cobra stuffie

2-headed cobra stuffie

Victoria Martinez
Sewing

Here was a big ol project that turned out cute and was more or less unproblematic!

The only real note I have is that I didn’t expect it to be so big. Anyway, this was a make with the kids project, and it started with both kids wanting a snake stuffie, but only one of them followed through. He selected the fabrics from my “not special” stuff and blessed me with easy to use cottons/mystery composition but still handles cotton-ish in “shark colours”.

He will also note that this is NOT a snake stuffie it is a COBRA, thank you.

1/4’ seam allowances, clear instructions even for a non stuffie maker like me AND even with several different head options available. Really pleased!

Oooh before I got photos of it, my guy gave it neck tattoos. Very tough cobra.

Pattern: Danger Noodle
Fabrics: mystery content white, cotton blue

YSL PANTS

YSL PANTS

Coral silk top