Communities of Practice (Comic #803)
Posted on November 13, 2025 by liz

I’m really feeling the beauty of the various communities I get to be a part of right now. What a gift it is to get to be part of things with people.

This comic is inspired by the Communities of practice blog post I created this weekend. I’m quite pleased with how it came out.

 

Thanks to all my patrons and a special big extra thanks to Kate Webb, Erik Owomoyela, Stuart Barrow, Jesse the K, Brian Fies and Jay Hedtke.

 

Good things,

Liz

Communities of Practice, cartoon transcript

If you want to do a thing.

Thing 1 looks sadly at a battered yellow hat.

 

Find the generous teachers, and more importantly the people also drawn to learning.

 

Thing 1 and 2 (wearing hats) look up a t a tall entity wearing a somewhat crown-ish hat)

Paper hat expert: In my travles I’ve explored many paper hat making cultures.

 

Communities of practice can become more than the craft.

Thing 1: I struggle with crisp folds.

Thing 2: Me too! I’ve been using a ruler, but I’m going to buy a bone folder.

Thing 1: Ooooh! What brand?

 

They can be a way to find people just as weird as you are.

Multiple folks wearing different hats, some more silly than others, smiling at each other.

Plushie designs for spoonflower!

Posted on October 16, 2015 by liz
Spoonflower is a pod fabric and wrapping paper service that I’ve been wanting to try out. I’m going to design somewhere between 2 and 6 fabric squares as my first test run for plushies and other neat things on fabric (I kinda want a repeating crinoline of all the characters in tutus). Here is my first attempt. What do you reckon? Anything else you want to see? Plushie things!