Zines!

I started making zines for my college radio station in 2001, whoa, and then I made my first personal project zine in 2007, called Do Stuff! Here’s me back then pointing to the zine—the cover of that zine is a photo of me in second grade pointing at a painting I made.

a photo of me, proudly (and awkwardly) pointing to the zine i made, which features a photo of me in 2nd grade, proudly (and awkwardly) pointing to a painting i made

That zine isn’t available anymore, but I did distribute a few hundred copies at the time so if you have it that’s cool!

cover of my old zine, which was a photo sewn onto to a recycled piece of cardboard so every copy was different

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I started wanting to get back into zine-making in recent years and I started with my little pizza-making zine in 2023.

make cast iron pan pizza! zine cover with illustration of pan with steam lines coming off it, smaller print: a little zine by Lee, leemeredith.com, t@leedoesstuff ig@lee_does_stuff_

pizza zine blog post
downloadable on my free patreon

I started 2025 by making a movies-of-2024 zine! I got obsessed with making a giant crossword puzzle, as well as multiple other connect-the-dots and other puzzles, and illustrations, and lists of movies and stuff.

cover of movies zine, with handdrawn text: It's hard, isnt it, being a person? the movies of 2024, by Lee, Lee Does Stuff. Drawing of a movie theater from the audience point of view, with a boot up and the backs of chairs, the zine title is on the movie screen. Below the boot and chairs are seven handdrawn movie posters, for: Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, Lisa Frankenstein, My Old Ass, I Used to Be Funny, National Anthem, Woman of the Hour, The People's Joker

2024 movie zine blog post
downloadable on my free patreon

I made this little educational zine to distribute freely at mutual aid events as well as little free libraries, etc.

downloadable on my free patreon

For June 2025, I designed this Progress flag knitting pattern as a zine to give away locally during Pride month and on my free patreon.

Zine cover, title Progress, text about the knitting pattern and the origin of the Progress Pride Flag, with a drawing and a technical schematic of the flag pattern

downloadable on my free patreon

In July 2025 I released a Palestinian flag modular pattern as a zine.

cover of zine called FreeFree with text This is a knitting pattern for a modular Palestinian Flag. It’s best for intermediate knitters, or adventurous beginners who are feeling up to it! Everything is shaped with increases and decreases, and joined by picking up selvage stitches as you work sideways. This way there’s no intarsia or seaming! Then a drawing of the flag and a schematic and over the top a red stamp image saying FREE FREE PALESTINE

downloadable on my free patreon

In August 2025 I made a mini-zine tutorial on how to make seitan, in the same style and format as my pizza-making mini-zine.

zine cover of mini-zine titled Make Seitan! with text "turn gluten into faux meat logs! flavor how you like! use your logs in different ways! have fun!" and an illustration of the Log Lady holding a log of seitan

downloadable on my free patreon

In September 2025 I launched my paid patreon, with plans to make at least one new zine per month moving forward! The first one to release was a recipe zine called Saucy Noodles/Rice.

zine cover with title "Saucy Noodles / Rice" and drawings of ingredients with some of them circled

available to patreon members in September 2025
talked about here on my blog

I turned my old recycled yarn making ebook into a zine!

zine cover: Remixed, Making Recycled Yarns, a zine by Lee Meredith with bullet points: turn old sweaters into new yarns picking out the best sweaters how to use recycled yarns combining & adding to yarns spinning recycled yarns making self-striping yarns

available to patreon members in September 2025
included when you buy the ebook on payhip or on ravelry

I made a zine about my dvd-collecting hobby, illustrated with pen drawings of my collection.

cover of "Let's Get Physical Media!" zine with subtitle "My [addiction, crossed out] hobby movie hunting for dvd deals & blu ray bargains. a zine by Lee leedoesstuff.com

available to patreon members in October 2025

My Movie Knitting zine talks all about my experience knitting in movie theaters and knitting sweaters with movie stripes (with photos and lists of movies watched during each sweater) and includes a knitting pattern designed to knit while watching movies.