A Helen Noel New Year

Happy New Year! 

I made a Helen Noel doll last night, New Year's Eve.

Doctor Noel--she's a psychiatrist-- is one of the only women who gets to be a real character on the original Star Trek. She crawls through heating ducts and takes out thugs and power plants in her skimpy little outfit (nylons will be run-proof in the 23rd century). 
She's a match for the captain romantically too, cutting her eyes at him and putting him on the defensive. 

I want the Sewing Group at work to move on from hot pads to dolls, but I discovered that dolls are hard! My doll looks OK here, but in person her head flops over and she has... bulges. I have work to do.  

The other thing I'm going to work on is the Superbowl, to see if I can reach some of the men. Maybe.  This is harder than sewing because when it comes to sports, I'm like Candace and Toni, the Birkenstock-wearing owners of a feminist bookstore Women and Women First from Portlandia, here trying to reach the inner woman of the TrailBlazers basketball players: 

But if Helen Noel can shut down a power station without knowing anything about electricity, I can figure out the rudiments of the football playoffs.