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Article: Designer melds fashion, technology: ; Book provides instructions on how to make such things as an illuminated skirt
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- February 9, 2009
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NEW YORK - With her carefully styled blonde hair, expertly
applied makeup and fashionable blue dress, nothing about Alison
Lewis even hints at the word "nerd" at a Manhattan party for her
first book.
But ask her about circuits or light-emitting diodes and you'll
see that she is equally familiar with switches and soldering irons
as with swatches and seams.
Her book, "Switch Craft: Battery-Powered Crafts to Make and Sew,"
brims with instructions for projects that combine technology with
clothing and accessories. For instance, there's a music-blaring bag,
a pillow with a cell phone headset, an illuminated skirt and
wriggling squids for cats to play with.
Lewis, who is 34 and lives in ...