I refreshed three of my favorite lacy patterns! Patreon members get Galax, Krewe, and Twou, perfect for summer knitting! www.patreon.com/LeeDoesStuff...

New zine day! This one is a collaboration with my friend @annacanning.bsky.social and I looove how it turned out, printed with riso in 4 ink colors! Only $5 to get the printed zine mailed to you!! Or just $2 for the digital files. New zine every month! www.patreon.com/LeeDoesStuff...

Any thoughts on where in the Portland area I might be able to source an old newspaper box?? I want to start a little free blockbuster! Willing to drive to Salem, Vancouver, etc. Looking for free or cheap-ish (finding them on FB marketplace for $300 😬)

The mystery has been solved! Dihedral was released today in all the places, including Patreon where you’ll also get a whole bunch of other patterns! www.patreon.com/posts/160262... www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... payhip.com/b/Yf1ym

Something I find myself thinking about a lot is unless you've got a legume allergy so much of the nutritional guidance can be summed up in: eat beans.

New zine!! Download it on patreon, or join a mail tier to get it sent to you! www.patreon.com/posts/159511...

I love gardening as a hobby, but I’m glad I choose to do it and don’t rely on it to live. I haven’t gotten far into the storage yet—fridge pickles, I’ve dabbled with a little fermentation, and then lots of freezing mostly, which works great! (Also: my newest zine is about gardening as a fun hobby!)

I’m gonna do a mystery hat knit-a-long! Soon! Pick out a skein of worsted and get ready. Pattern sections will go up on the patreon to knit tiers starting in a few days ($6 to join). For now, I’ve posted a poll asking how far apart you’d like the sections to be: www.patreon.com/posts/158098...

All set up! Come by!

Local Portland people! I’ll be tabling with my zines on Saturday at this fun event in SE! Including my brand new gardening zine!!

Pet peeve: “an intern is having a really bad day” about a social media situation. For several years sm has been very important for companies, interns aren’t doing it! Just saw someone say it about the company I worked for—the sm guy got paid more than I did & of course his position didn’t get cut!

SO RELATABLE

I was going to write today, but until we know more, I don't have any new words for this moment. What I will say is that if you are reeling, and you know you want to be part of making things better, Mariame Kaba and I wrote a book for you. I hope it helps.

New pattern! Bobbie Hood is a worsted weight reversible hood knit with slipped stitches, in two sizes with several options for the bottom, including ties, a buttoning strap, or full scarf ends! On Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/154662... On Ravelry: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

It is really, really wild how persistent and prominent this remains in common LLMs. There seems to be an air of "well they fixed that" and it is 100% not true: most of the energy just seems to be going towards 'being plausible enough to be accepted', ie style and not accuracy or truth

Well it’s been 26 days since this went wide and I haven’t seen a single response. I have a huge stash of their yarn I brought home during my 6 years of working there, but I will stop tagging them when I use it because they don’t want to be tagged on anything political and EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL 🤷‍♀️

"It’s Trans Day of Visibility but it’s also Trans Day of Have To Go To Work Anyway, or Trans Day of Who The Fuck is Hiring, or Trans Day of How Are We Going to Support All These Queers Who Are Internally Displaced Refugees Here in the States."

It’s your final day to sign up for a mail tier of my Patreon (only FIVE dollars!! or just 9 if you also want a knitting pattern each month) to get this 2021 time capsule zine mailed to you! You can learn a bit more about it here: www.patreon.com/posts/154121...

It’s your final day to sign up for a mail tier of my Patreon (only FIVE dollars!! or just 9 if you also want a knitting pattern each month) to get this 2021 time capsule zine mailed to you! You can learn a bit more about it here: www.patreon.com/posts/154121...

I am SO behind schedule on multiple projects, sick with a cold, trying to work on this pattern which has been like alllmost done for over a week but still quite far from being actually really done…

This was a great listen. Take an hour of your day to put this on. There is a profound historical precedent for librarians and archivists being among the very first people targeted by authoritarians. Librarians are the keepers of collective knowledge. It's a sacred responsibility.

I posted some peek photos of my next pattern, and a poll about how you prefer patterns to be written, on my patreon. Do you like when a pattern always tells you to slip wyif or wyib, or do you prefer just a “always slip with yarn to WS” note and leave it at that? www.patreon.com/posts/153373...

If we let them, these people will destroy everything that makes human civilization worth saving. It’s frightening how much power and influence we have allowed these tech feudalists to accumulate - and it will be one of the twenty-first century’s defining struggles to wrest it back from them.

Between Sean Penn and Brad Pitt, lots of love for abusers this evening

Search your camera roll for “hell”

The voice and method and feeling and ambition and love of contemporary television criticism would be practically unimaginable without Matt Zoller Seitz. Buy some books from his wonderful store!

Ugh feel like cultural progress has been moving backwards. Rise in vegan foods having been a trend that is no longer in fashion. Learning that the company where I was on the DEI committee & helped design pride flag patterns is now refusing to support influencers who make a red hat.Shit is depressing

I am horrified at how evil this is. But I'm also horrified at how bad this is. I've seen One Direction edits that go harder than this.

Yeah I need this. Been a frustrating week, being sad more people aren’t signing up for my patreon even after a major price drop and just learned last night I didn’t get accepted to table a zine fest I applied for. Maybe zines were not a good new career choice 🙃 but at least I don’t use ai!

Paywalling a story like this is crazy. Here's the list.

For anyone who missed this, it’s only 5 bucks now to get a new nicely-printed zine in your mailbox every month! I want anyone who wants them to be able to get them so I’m trying for as low of a cost-barrier as possibly possible! Only $2 for the zine files, $6 for the zine+knitting pattern files!

Big price drop to my patreon mail tiers starting this month! Get a zine in your mailbox every month for just $5 or get a mailed zine plus a digital knitting pattern for $9! I wrote about these changes and more, plus my newest zine & newest pattern here: leedoesstuff.com/2026/03/01/n...

Big price drop to my patreon mail tiers starting this month! Get a zine in your mailbox every month for just $5 or get a mailed zine plus a digital knitting pattern for $9! I wrote about these changes and more, plus my newest zine & newest pattern here: leedoesstuff.com/2026/03/01/n...

New recipe zine! 1-Pan Farro includes 9 recipes for very different kinds of one-pan dishes that all use pearled farro. The digital files just went up on patreon—join at any paid tier to get those (lowest is only $2!)—and they’ll be mailed out to mail-tier members. www.patreon.com/posts/151676...

New recipe zine! 1-Pan Farro includes 9 recipes for very different kinds of one-pan dishes that all use pearled farro. The digital files just went up on patreon—join at any paid tier to get those (lowest is only $2!)—and they’ll be mailed out to mail-tier members. www.patreon.com/posts/151676...

Jfc as someone who had orthorexia she can fuck off into the burning, hellacious sun

This thread is wonderful, full of public domain art resources! I draw/paint/collage, so I'm bookmarking it for future reference!

New hat pattern! Wowee Zowee is designed for scrap-busting and leftover mini-balls, and it's a spinoff of my old scarf pattern, Slanted & Enchanted. It's available on ravelry & payhip now, and if you join my patreon you'll also get a bonus pdf of the scarf pattern! www.patreon.com/posts/new-pa...

This is my 6th month doing the paid patreon—starting in March I’ll be retiring some older downloads so you won’t have access to everything I’ve ever posted there. For now however, new members do indeed have access to everything! That’s a lot of zines & knitting patterns! www.patreon.com/LeeDoesStuff

Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person. Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines: zinelibrary.org

I posted yesterday about my 2025 movies zine and my favorite 30 movies of 2025!! leedoesstuff.com/2026/02/10/m...

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Thanks everyone who bought a hat pattern — donation to PIRC has been sent!

Free FCK Fascism hat pattern is now up on my free patreon, ravelry & payhip: www.patreon.com/posts/149788... www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... payhip.com/b/Lwkyj

Portland’s ICE facility is in a residential neighborhood. I couldn’t imagine living there right now

And ICE shot out the windows of apartments nearby. They used this munition to do it. They also shot people with this.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Last day to join my patreon and get this movies zine! It has TWO big movie trivia crosswords!! Plus tons of recommendations and more