Jun 16

I’m so excited. I just surfed on over to Universal Yarn’s site and see that they’ve added their new line of Debbie Macomber yarns. I designed one of the garments for the accompanying booklets.


These design projects are funny. They have to be a secret and are done so far in advance of publication. It’s almost a little treat when they go live. I wonder who will knit this. The yarn is LOVELY and terrific to work with. Visionray is a color right up my alley!

Soon to be published is a design I did for Petit Purls and I have a sock design in an upcoming book, Brave New Knits, by Julie Turjoman. Exciting times ahead, eh?

Stay tuned.

Dec 19

Snowflake_300hWhen I was growing up, every year around this time, we would all gather at my Babcia’s house. Being at Babcia’s wasn’t in itself unusual because we lived upstairs from her. But every year, near Christmas, all the kids would be there and then we would hear them — Santa’s jingle bells! Santa would arrive (through the front door, which we never used!) It’s such a great memory. AND now, guess what? My sister has arranged to have Santa visit my parents’ house in NH to visit the little ones in our family. The smile that is on my face this morning from the anticipation of seeing the kids’ faces when he walks through the door is spreading ear-to-ear.

We will start the day by building a ginger bread house, and (hopefully) popcorn balls which, for some reason, were part of Santa’s visit when I was little.

I will take lots of pictures and hopefully some video to share.

OH, I have that Christmas-morning-like anticipation. I CANNOT wait. (oh and shhhhh, don’t tell the kids. This is a surprise.

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