Alie Ward

That's the hard part.

Kristen agreed wholeheartedly.

I also, of course, asked Luke Haynes of last week's episode for some encouragement.

So start, start, start, start, start.

If you don't think quilting is for you, but you love the anti-consumptionist vibe of reusing and recycling and not lining anyone's pockets by buying things, I recently started a rag rug out of old socks.

All I can think about on most days is that I just want to be working on my rag rug.

If you go to my Instagram at Allie Ward, you'll see a picture of our daughter, Gremlin, who's a dog, sitting on it.

I just I had some socks and I was walking with them to the garbage.

You know, when you have too many socks and like a lot of them have holes and but you're like, oh, we have so many memories, especially if you have like a lot of patterned socks.

Half my socks are Halloween socks.

I was walking them to the garbage after I did a big sock cull, and I was like, oh, I'm sad to see these go.

Also, fabric, what a waste.

So I cut these old socks into strips, and then I braided them together using this easy slipknot trick.

And then wound this big long braid into coils and I'm hand stitching those coils together.

It's like a giant soft sleeping coiled up snake that's a rug.

I love it.

Zero dollars.

My friend Dr. Tegan Wall made me the most gorgeous crochet blanket I will treasure forever.

But you can also embroider.

You can mend clothes with visible stitches or little designs.