I made all my knitting patterns 25% off for the week! Digital patterns on ravelry and payhip are automatically on sale, no coupon code. I have lots of good gift knits! www.ravelry.com/designers/le... payhip.com/LeeMeredith

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I posted about all the new zines I made for November, a brand new knitting pattern I just released, plus a new riso-printed item reveal! leedoesstuff.com/2025/11/26/n...

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

💯 while doing reading/listening back in 2020 I came to the realization that the reason all cops are bad is that in order to be good at the job they have to be a bad person or do bad things, at least sometimes; if they are good/righteous then they are not good at the job. Therefore all cops are bad.

Ooh I might need to get this blu ray, loved this movie! It’s about SOUP! It’s streaming on criterion channel and Kanopy (free no-ads with library card!!) if you wanna watch it.

I turned my Either/Or knitting pattern into a zine!! First released in 2012, it's always been a favorite of mine—it’s for any weight/gauge, fingerless mitts or mittens, fun to play with stripe patterning, great for stash-busting! www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

The only movie streaming service I subscribe to annually!

Tonight!

Just today I bought the Heart Eyes blu ray on sale at Midslumber (horror physical media store on Alberta)!

For like ten years now but nobody listened

And I also released this at the beginning of the week! Busy week! Join my digital patreon for only $2 and download printable files of both this and the soup zine!!

A repost for weekend scrollers! Soooouuuup!

Soup! Soup! Soup! This new zine has five of my favorites so you can make them too! It just went out digitally to all paid patreon tiers, and these riso-printed copies will be sent out to mail-tier members at the end of the month! www.patreon.com/posts/143436...

My new knitting tutorials zine just went out to all paid patreon members (plus the individual tutorials are available to everyone for free)—see all the details on the patreon post! www.patreon.com/posts/143289...

I posted about my new stenciling mini-zine and my film negative stencils on my blog, and posted the zine files to my free Patreon! leedoesstuff.com/2025/11/07/f... aaaand I’ll be tabling at Portland Zine Symposium tomorrow and I’ll have some of these AND three other brand new zines!! 😅

Working on a knitting technique tutorials zine and I have room for ONE more. If you had a pocket-sized zine to keep in your knitting bag and reference whenever needed, what techniques would be most useful for you to have in it?

I’m pretty stressed out this week prepping everything for Portland Zine Symposium on Sunday (including like 4 new zines), so I just bought a ticket to take a break this evening by seeing If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. That’ll be relaxing right? 🙃🙃🙃

Just realized we own a red plaid bathrobe if anyone local wants to borrow it for a lazy last-second costume! Feels like a waste for it not to get worn this Halloween 😂

Only 24 hours remain to sign up for my Patreon and get my new Double Feature pattern! (I think that's how patreon works... right? I think? Still getting used to patreon!) And I'll tell you something about my plans for November: I have an appointment for next week to do some risograph printing!!

Catching up on my feed… I think I’m gonna need to add an extra extra stencil to Friday’s Patreon packages because I can’t resist the urge to make FUCK ICE stencils and distribute them to everyone I know

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

If you see this post a vampire that isn’t Dracula

LOVING these stencils I’m playing with, cut into old film negatives!! My Patreon physical tier members will be getting this and more that I'll keep a surprise! You can still sign up now to have a package sent to you at the end of the week!

Remember the "why won't protesters thank Trump for bringing peace to the Middle East" news cycle? That was fun.

LOVING these stencils I’m playing with, cut into old film negatives!! My Patreon physical tier members will be getting this and more that I'll keep a surprise! You can still sign up now to have a package sent to you at the end of the week!

New zine and knitting pattern on my patreon!! (It’s also available on ravelry & payhip but it’s the same cost to sign up for the knit tier of the patreon and you’ll also get my movie-collecting zine!) Double Feature is an any-gauge CowlHood meant to knit to movies! www.patreon.com/posts/141978...

I was almost done with the zine I’m working on, printed a draft, felt like the text should be a little larger and wished there were more/bigger photos so I impulsively decided to add 8 more pages. Which means re-laying-out the entire thing 👍🏼🤦‍♀️ but I will be happier in the end!!

Today!

(What tips the scale for me...) Will it be an entry point into more meaningful direct action and community organizing? Absolutely, for some. Does it help people in red states felel less abandoned? I think so. Is it a free outside hang on a sunny day that pisses some truly terrible people off? Yep!

If you have a little time today to whip up a project, I suggest this pattern from @leedoesstuff.bsky.social #wip #frog

please disabuse yourself from the propaganda that leftists glorify violence/seek to incite protests - is rhetoric to fracture movement (good vs bad protestors) - ignores state violence instigating (ppl getting attacked ≠ attacking!) & justifies harm - overwrites practical analysis w/fearmongery

if you're going to a protest today I wish you luck. The only specific thing I will beg of you is this: don't use milk to wash out tear gas or mace. if you see a street medic with milk, yell at them until they throw it out. do not continue to spread lies about emergency medicine.

I got through an eye and a half tonight; I’m hoping to make a few pairs by Saturday… 🐸👀 It’s a fun pattern, quick to make, and uses a tiny bit of yarn. 🥳 Pattern by: @leedoesstuff.bsky.social #knitters #knitting #nokings

If you’re local you can get one of my new large patches at this fundraiser on Saturday!! Stop by after the big march. (Or instead of it, if you’re not into huge crowds and prefer something more chill that helps the same cause!)

Just posted about allll the things I’ve been making over the last month (ish)!! So much! leedoesstuff.com/2025/10/16/b...

FCK ICE Frog Mod pattern is up now in all the places (free)! www.patreon.com/posts/141322... www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... payhip.com/b/lNzs2

I’ve seen 52 movies in the theater in 2025 alone, every one while masked. It’s NOT HARD.

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

That quote at the end! That’s it. Because of all those people who believe them, the lies stick around and grow. They do the same with public transit—convince people it’s dangerous and the people who already don’t use it believe the lies and continue not using it.

So in conclusion, the people hating on Portland are a bunch of lying assholes, and nobody reading this doesn’t already know that but the whole thing was pissing me off so I had to run my mouth about it a little, thanks. /thread

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

We’ll be tabling here with mending kits, zines, and supplies!!

The overriding goal of too many journalists is to provide “balanced” coverage from a “neutral” position in equidistance to both sides. That framework is much easier to justify if you pretend to be dealing with “normal” politicians – as opposed to committed ideologues pursuing an extreme project.

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create. So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

it's gonna be like the end of Magnolia up in this bitch

I’m starting work on a “veganized soups” recipe zine. Any soup recipe you love that has meat that you'd like to be turned into a vegan version?

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope! and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate