Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 09:32AM 
My next picture book is coming out soon, and is now available for preorder!
SHORT DOG LONG DOG is a book of knitted dogs demonstrating opposites, some conventional; others less so!
And Kirkus just gave it a starred review, yay!
Avaiable for preorder from bookstores big and small, near and far, quiet and loud... you get the idea. 🐶
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 at 09:38AM 
I'm so pleased that my work for the "Be Like Bud" campaign that I worked on with My Sister Fred for the City of Austin Watershed Protection Department is a selected winner in American Illustration 43.
American Illusration selected four stills from the campsign to be included in their book.
It's an honor to be recognized by this publication again! Previously, my spots for Nickeodeon were selected for AI 33 and my video for Sesame Workshop was included in AI 36.
Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 10:21AM 
I’m very happy to have Catside Up, Catside Down included in this year’s Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year list! It’s in the category of Best Books for Under Fives.
Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 09:48AM 
I'm thrilled that Catside Up, Catside Down has been selected by the Texas Library Association for their annual 2x2 Reading List, a list that's compiled of books recommended for children age 2 to second grade. I love that!
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 11:14AM 
It's such an honor to see Catside Up, Catside Down included in Evanston Public Library's 101 Great Books for Kids 2023. (Number 3 in the picture books category!) Thank you, Evanston librarians!
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 at 10:51AM 
Catside Up, Catside Down is now on sale everywhere! To get my new book of cats and prepositions, just ask or it AT your local bookstore, or order it FROM your favorite website. If you placed a preorder, check INSIDE your mailbox!
This is my first-ever picture book. It’s a slightly scary thrill to finally have it out in the world. There’s a lot of me in this book—my goofy rhymes, my photography—and, of course, my more than 50 knitted cats! I hope the cute kitties will engage kids and charm grownups, and maybe inspire some people to make something with yarn.
One of the best things about working on Catside Up, Catside Down was collaborating with people who made my ideas so much better. I’m grateful to incisive editor Anna Roberto, astute designer Mike Burroughs, and to my agent, Ammi-Joan Paquette, for believing in my whole deal and turning me into a children’s book author!
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 02:22PM 
I recently had the honor of being interviewed on the Craft Industry Alliance podcast.
The podcast is hosted by Abby Glassenberg, co-founder and president of CIA. So Abby is a pretty big deal in the crafts industry, but I’ll always know her as a plush maker—back when I was working at gallery hanahou in NYC, Abby was one of the artists we invited to take part in our plush toy show! As I talk about on the podcast, that show was one of the big influences on my journey of knitting toys, and it shaped my thinking about plush toys as objects of art and design, and not just kids’ playthings. (Although toys made for kids are awesome too, of course!)
As I expected, Abby was really easy to talk to, so I hope that makes for an enjoyable listen. Thank you Abby and Craft Industry Alliance for having me on!
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 09:37AM 
I have news for people who love yarn or cats or both: I have a new picture book featuring knitted cats coming out this fall!
Catside Up, Catside Down shows my cats in a bunch of different places and positions to demonstrate a variety of prepositions. The official audience is meant to be 2-5 year-olds, but I hope older folks will love the cats and rhymes too.
You can see more and find links to preorder the book at the Macmillan website.
Friday, January 13, 2023 at 12:03PM Biggest project of 2022: The social media platform LINE invited me to create a set of 24 animated stickers for them. It was a blast, and the stickers just went live!
At first I wasn't sure I could come up with 24 emotions or ideas to convey with my characters, but that part came quite easily in the end, and it was fun to match the characters to the feelings. I introduced a couple of new characters here too, like the bowl of ramen, the lightbulb, and the rabbits (which are now also available as a knitting pattern from Mochimochi Land).
You can see them all in the LINE store. The stickers are currently available for purchase as a set in select territories including Taiwan.
Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 08:40AM 
If inflation were a helium-filled balloon, we'd be pretty high up in the air right now. That's the premise behind the animations that art director Emily Wright of the Washington Post commissioned from me for an interactive piece titled Inflation Explained: How Prices Took Off by Damian Paletta. As you scroll through, six stop-motion videos automatically play behind Damian's words, giving an informative and playful picture of the ups and downs of the economy since early 2020.
This project was a blast to work on, and a terrific challenge with all the air physics involved, plus a tight deadline.
You can read more about how this piece came together from the Post's persepctive in this "Behind the Story" piece. And see all six animations from it in this Instagram post.