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.

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, [...]

Slicing, dicing… and oiling!

No, it's not a cooking/recipe post! Heavens no... it's a post about rotary cutters! Did you know that oiling them can help them roll more smoothly? Yep. Just like oiling your sewing machine. And you [...]