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Molly W.

Blogger, Quilter, Baker. Queer, fat, Jewish, Femme.

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Hello! I'm Molly, and I make things.

Me, with my first ALL BY MYSELF quilt ready to go on the longarm!

I'm Molly, a queer, DIY crafter, baker, and maker in Burien, WA (just south of Seattle). I wanted to start capturing my creative adventures and thoughts in more characters than is always reasonable on Instagram and Facebook. I've been talking about starting a blog for a few years now, and I decided to finally just do it.

By trade, I work in tech as a user experience designer for SaaS (Software as a Service) products. My day job gives me a lot of opportunity to apply business thinking to creative pursuits, which can be both a blessing and a curse. Personally, I am a bit of a crafting magpie: I often joke that while some people collect AS a hobby, I just collect hobbies. While it's true that I dabble in a wide variety of creative pursuits (sewing, printmaking, paper crafts, painting, ceramics, cooking, photography, toy-making, and beyond), over the years my main loves have become quilting and baking.

Some of my professional software design work

I'm proudly "out" about my identities for a variety of reasons, but I find them especially important when it comes to crafting. I think there's often a misconception that only older, white, heterosexual, cisgender, churchy ladies do quilting and crafting and it's simply not true. At the same time, there are a LOT of older, white, heterosexual, cisgender, churchy ladies who do crafts! I feel like I can use my engagement in crafting communities to raise the profile and understanding of more non-mainstream ideas and identities that matter to me.

A few things to know about me:

I identify as queer.
I am mostly cisgender, and use she/her pronouns.
I am married to a beautiful nonbinary, transfeminine person.
I am polyamorous.
In addition to my spouse, I have a live-in boyfriend, and a girlfriend who I don't see nearly often enough!
I work in tech.
I am anti-racist, and believe that Black Lives Matter.
I am an intersectional feminist.
I was a Girl Scout for 12 years, and am a proud Gold Award recipient.
I believe in Health at Every Size.
I officially converted to Judaism in the summer of 2017.
I believe in human rights for Palestinians.
I am a cancer survivor.
I am a survivor of workplace gun violence.

If any of that is uncomfortable for you, I invite you to stick around and experience a new perspective. I will do my best to provide a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion (or lack thereof). I do not tolerate harassment of other commenters in any form. I am committed to creating a definition of “safe space” that does not mean never being challenged or offended, but rather a space in which everyone has permission to ask respectful questions, to not know the answers, and to not be judged negatively for these things. (tl;dr: don't be a jerk and you'll probably be fine.)

In terms of creative pursuits, what you'll mostly find here revolves around quilting and baking. That said, I've dabbled in a wide variety of arts, crafts, and design, so you're likely to find some other stuff here along the way.

To greater or lesser degrees, I have experience with these creative areas, among others: