I am a published knitwear designer, designing for books, magazines, yarn & pattern companies. My designs often feature intarsia colorwork or interesting yarn combinations. I also founded "Stitch Together", a vocational training program for disadvantaged & troubled teenagers, who learn job skills by running an internet yarn shop, learning to knit, and making knitted items for retail sale. My grandmother taught me to knit at the age of 5, and I have been designing and teaching others to knit for over 25 years.