January Finish It Challenge
Our January Finish It Challenge is a four-week, online invitation to spend time with projects you’ve already begun with support, structure, and zero pressure to rush or perfect.
What’s included:
- Four weekly 1-hour Zoom sessions dedicated to working on your unfinished projects, together in community
- Encouragement and guidance when you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure what your next step should be
- Steady, gentle momentum through shared making and community accountability
- A dedicated online space to share updates, ask questions, and stay connected between weekly Zoom sessions
Bi-Monthly Challenges are free for workroom studio community members.
Join a Single Challenge
If one theme speaks to you right now, you’re welcome to join that challenge on its own. Each bi-monthly challenge is $25 and designed to stand alone, offering focused time, support, and community around a specific aspect of making.
Join the Full Year
For those who want the deeper experience, workroom studio membership includes all six challenges as part of a broader year-long practice. Membership is an invitation into the full experience. It also includes additional perks like member discounts, advanced previews and access to to sales, new workshops and behind the scenes updates.
This virtual challenge is part of a series of six bi-monthly challenges we’ll be hosting throughout 2026 inside our online community. Our theme for the year is A Year of Intentional Making - an invitation to slow down and work more thoughtfully with what we already have.
Alongside Finish It, upcoming challenges will explore Scraps, Mending, Repurposing, and Stash - each one designed to encourage creativity, build skill, and reconnect us with the joy of making.
Each challenge is:
If you’re planning to join more than one challenge this year, the membership quickly becomes the most generous option.
Blog
Handmade Wardrobe Year Mid Year Cohort
When the Handmade Wardrobe Year started in January, it was an experiment in commitment - a consistent group of makers showing up together, class after class, for a full year. What that creates, it turns out, is something you can't replicate: a community that builds alongside the skills. Four months in, this cohort has worked through nine garments.
New to PDF Patterns? A Quick Guide to Printing & Assembling
There’s something empowering about sewing from a PDF pattern. Instant access. No waiting. A whole new world of independent designers at your fingertips.
If you’re new to PDF patterns, though, they can feel slightly mysterious at first.
Let’s walk through it together.
Merchant & Mills Weekender Bag : Community Sew Along
A community sew-along for the Merchant & Mills Weekender Bag
The Merchant & Mills Weekender Bag is thoughtfully designed, beautifully utilitarian, and full of satisfying construction details. It’s the kind of make many of us want to start, but don’t always find the time to finish on our own.
That’s exactly why we’re hosting a Community Sew-Along.
