Yay!  Girls who do make things teaching girls who’ve never made anything to make things that look like crap.  Sounds rad!  Just like Etsy’s bullshit craft nite.  Some of us lived through well-meaning attempts to distress denim the first time around.  It always looks exactly as cheesy and homemade as it is.  In the words of a well-known knitwear consultant who we love dearly:  “You made that, didn’t you?”

I seriously hope that running this workshop isn’t a first-time experience for the ladies who write the blogs hosting this event, but I expect it is.  Hope they’re ready for the angst that comes from managing the frustration and tears when workshop participants inevitably discover in the course of trying to follow instructions that making beautiful things by hand really isn’t something that just anyone can do.

DIY?  This is how it’s done, bitches.

<3 pvb