Sweet Tusk selected for 2021 Chicago International Children's Film Festival
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 10:25AM I love this festival news becuase it's in Chicago and so am I!
Sweet Tusk, my short about two walruses bonding over dental hygiene, was selected for the 2021 Chicago International Children's Film Festival. The festival will be held mostly online—see more details at the festival website.
Sophie and Chanel selected for Animafest Zagreb
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 01:17PM 
I’m honored that my 2020 short film, Sophie and Chanel at Home, was just selected for screening at Animafest Zagreb 2021, the animation festival in Zagreb, Croatia! It will be screened in the Films for Children competition, and this year that screening will happen in person, which makes me so happy. If I lived on the same continent, I would be trying to get there in person! If you happen to live in the area, check it out June 7-12.
Holiday animations for Nick Jr social accounts
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 11:47AM Nick Jr. asked me to make some animations for their holiday greetings on social media! Seen here are my knit versions of charcters from Blue's Clues and You, PAW Patrol, and Bubble Guppies. This was such a fun project with which to end a mostly disappointing year. Happy Holidays!
NIFTY Making-Of Video
Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 10:08AM NIFTY invited me to make some new cat GIFs for them and share my process, and this video is the result! I loved the opportunity to share some behind-the-scenes footage (featuring my super messy basement studio!) and KNIT MORE CATS. Thank you NIFTY!
GIPHY's Top Ten (again!)
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 02:02PM
This was a nice surprise: GIPHY has included my OK! GIF at number 6 in their list of “Top GIFs of 2020”!
I guess many of us have been working toward various forms of OK-ness this year.
I'm so grateful to have this weird little medium in which my characters can help express ideas and feelings.
Btw, this is the SECOND time one of my GIFs has made it into GIPHY’s year-end top ten 🤯 In 2017 my heart-knitting gnome was number 1!
Greetings from Mochimochi 10 year anniversary
Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 12:33PM 
Greetings from Mochimochi was ten years ago this month!
In fall 2010 I brought Mochimochi Land into the real life for the first time at gallery hanahou in NYC. Putting together Greetings from Mochimochi got me exploring a big interconnected world of knitted weirdness, and my subsequent installations at venues like Vogue Knitting LIVE and Everyday Mooonday were based on this first one. And it had a working model train!
I couldn’t be more grateful to KOKO Art Agency for making this magic happen and helping inspire so much Mochimochi Land fun in the past ten years.
You can see more photos from this show here.
MVG animation and tusk-brushing walruses selected for Motion Arts Awards 8
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 11:55AM 
I'm honored to have two of my animations selected for AI-AP's International Motion Arts Awards 8 this year. The Mobilitymaker, a short animation for the Munich Transport Corporation (MVG) was selected, along with Sweet Tusk, a short animation that I made as a personal project in 2019.
You can view all of the selections in the Motion Arts 8 slideshow.
Bluebirds of Crappiness
Sunday, August 16, 2020 at 04:57PM 
Oh boy are things crappy right now!
I've been offsetting some of the crappiness by knitting cute things (of course) and sharing them with my far-flung friends.
If you'd like to have a Bluebird of Crappiness of your very own, or send one to a friend, you can now purchase one made by me! 50% of the proceeds are going to Chicago food pantries and other services for our Chicago neighbors.