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About Us
Dedicated to helping you succeed in enjoying the creative process, YouCanMakeThis.com provides detailed, step-by-step guides for making fun projects in a variety of DIY categories. The guides are available for you to download immediately after purchase - most as PDF documents.
YouCanMakeThis.com (or "YCMT" as our customers call us) was launched in 2006 by Kim Christopherson, a mother of three, who wanted to share her expertise in creating handmade items. Kim reached out to others she knew that could share and invited them to join her in creating detailed guides that anyone could follow to create items for loved ones or even to sell. Since then the list of authors, most also mothers or grandmothers, has grown to over 200.
YouCanMakeThis.com is dedicated to providing high-quality instructions for you, our customer. Our strict submission guidelines and review cycle is in place to make sure that when a customer buys a guide off our site, they will be able to successful complete it.
We also have two other sites focused on Quilting and Machine Embroidery. If you love those hobbies or want to learn more about them, you can visit YouCanQuiltThis.com or SWAKembroidery.com.
Who We Are
A dedicated group of people work together to make YouCanMakeThis.com the best resource for you possible. These include the team working directly for YCMT and our author/designers.
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Our authors and designers are a wonderful and unique group of women. Through our designer-author program, we tap into the expertise of quality designers, who share tips, tricks and techniques for making creations. Buyers enjoy the benefit of finally having their question answered - "How'd they do that?!"
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We believe in doing our part to help Make a Difference. We have a section of the site dedicated to this. Join us in combining two passions that lift the heart and help those in need - creating and serving.
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