Dia de los Muertos.

This does have to do with knitting, believe it or not. 

I'm in the middle of working up a new pattern and I'll have it available in the next week or so... 

just in time to knit up for Day of the Dead. 

I sketched up a few skull ideas/illustrations...

this will make sense as far as how it links to the pattern later...

and then scanned them in to my computer.
I'm tweaking and playing with color stories... and having a blast. 

More to come on this soon!

sara and julie.

Sara O'leary is the author of the BEAUTIFUL book Where You Came From. I bought this book for Olivia last summer at Powell's. The story is absolutely enchanting. Its simple and clever and became my favorite from the moment I picked it up.

But as much as I love the story... the reason I picked it up in the first place was because of the illustrations. Julie Morstad is an amazing artist and did such a magical job with this book.

(the images pictured in this post are from her personal website not from the story I linked above.)



This morning I tracked down her personal website and was blown away by her collection on-line.
Take a look at her other books... the alphabet one is just as beautiful!




On my list of "to-dos before i die" is to illustrate a children's book. What an inspiration Julie is to me!