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Article: Designer melds tech, fashion in crafty way

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February 15, 2009
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With her carefully styled blond 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 will 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 Philadelphia, wants to ...

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