Erin Gilday

About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation sewing pattern designer, author
Location Portland, OR, United States
Introduction http://www.patchworkunderground.com/blog
Interests buses, school buses, housebuses, bus conversions, lucid dreams, crafting, tea, writing, project runway, the good apocalypse, hats and scarves, thrift stores, auto wrecking yards, Boggle, quilting patterns and tricks, juggling, fire spinning, timber sports, magic, oldies radio, LPs, "missed connections" ads in the personals, sea shells, costumes, green architecture, green building supplies, cob houses, straw bale houses, home canning, recycling, dogs, free stuff, feminist theory, veggie oil as fuel, queer hippies, haunted houses, vintage sewing notions and old patterns.
Favorite Movies Harold and Maude, Hedwig, Gone With the Wind, Tipping the Velvet, Coal Miner's Daughter, Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Favorite Music The Grateful Dead, Gram Parsons, Janis Joplin, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Dolly Parton, Donovon, The Band, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Stevie Nicks, Lavender Jane, The Chieftans, Leon Russell, Allman Brothers, The Conjugal Visitors, The Jerry Garcia Band, Hamza El-Din, Emylou Lou Harris, Brewer and Shipley, Dark Star Orchestra, John Lennon & the Beatles, Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline
Favorite Books Native Funk and Flash, Some Turtles Have Nice Shells, Rolling Homes, Shelter, Annotated Lyrics of the Grateful Dead, Blazing Showers, Fireside Book of Folk Songs, The Waves, any pretentious book about the Gnostic Gospels