Dear Ashley: We spoke with Jeffrey Kalmikoff, chief creative officer of Chicago-based t-shirt retailer Threadless, which sells 90,000 t-shirts a month and has 600,000 registered users on its website.

In the first installment of our new series, DIY with MI, HULL frontman Nick Palmirotto gives us a look into his band's practice space, where the band also prints all of its merchandise by hand.