How my values show up

I believe the way a business operates adds something intangible and important to the final product.

I am firmly liberal, intersectional, and progressive in my view of the world, and build my social spaces to reflect this. Together, we support the Black Lives Matter movement, are unwavering allies to all the LGBTQIA+ and genderqueer folks in our lives, read banned books, and more.

If this sounds like you, welcome! You have found your people.

Here's a little bit more about the values that drive my work and how they show up in the yarn or kit that arrives on your doorstep.

• Making things by hand is powerful. I believe that craft and handwork can be revolutionary. It's claiming your time and your worth in a culture that pushes many of us to the margins. When you make something by hand, whether it is a knitted or crocheted garment, or something sewn on your home machine, or a meal made to nourish your family, you are saying that your time matters. That enjoyment of making matters. That every other maker—and for whatever reason they make— matters. It is a tiny chip away at an unchecked culture of consumption and at systems of inequality and racism.

• Everyone should earn a living wage. It's important to me that creative work is valued and compensated as the centrally important and irreplaceable work that it is. Everyone who contributes to Little Skein is compensated, and I aim to exceed living wage standards.

• Go beyond what's required. I believe business can do good in the world and thrive financially. My desire is for all of us to be well. I set my policies and practices accordingly.

I am on a lifelong journey of becoming anti-racist. I am passionate about economics and in particular ending systems of inequality. I believe that art, knitting, and making things by hand can change the world for the better.