WRITINGS, MUSINGS, & PHOTO TUTORIALS

WRITINGS, MUSINGS, AND PHOTO TUTORIALS

Welcome to the blog! This is where you’ll find written tutorials, encouragement, posts from some of the coolest blog hops, and occasional musings. I also write periodically for my industry and some of those posts can get a bit chewy if you’re just here for the pretty pictures, so feel free to skip right over those!
The blog includes written tutorials, and you can go here for a list of them. If you want to check out our video tutorials, go here.

These Hands Make Things

If you follow any of the social media surrounding the current wave of feminism, you've probably noticed that we are beginning to see photographs of real people with little electronic alteration - a trend I [...]

THEY Are $ew Worth It – a Challenge

I recently joined a knitting group through Meetup.com. When you're new in town finding a tribe of fiber peeps is a great way to meet new people, so I bravely grabbed my project, put on [...]

Great Exposure!

Image from the delightful Melanie Gillman of pigeonbits.tumblr.com As this lovely year comes to a close, I want to thank each and every person who has written me from the We Are $ew Worth It posts. [...]

  • Image is of a Christmas Countdown wall hanging advent calendar with green background fabric, Santa print feature, and 24 white pockets with red lettering.

Countdown! Advent Calendar Tutorial

This is a tutorial for Countdown, the advent calendar pattern I designed a couple of years back. It has roomy pleated pockets instead of doors or ornaments, and goes together really quickly. Like most of [...]

So Worth It

I'm trying to get a movement started. I know... it's a pretty big-for-my-yoga-pants idea, but hey... as they say, go big or go home, right? So I think I'll aim for BIG. Having said that, [...]