Handmade Store: MLL Designs

Lifelong crafter with mostly knitted and crocheted items. Most items are traditional and useful for baby and young children gifts.

Makes and donates newborn hats and blankets to Regions and Fairview Lakes hospitals in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. Makes and donates hats, mittens and scarves to Union Gospel Mission and the two homeless shelters they sponsor. Makes and donates prayer shawls to two hospices.

Awards: Minnesota State Fair Sweepstakes (purple ribbon) for knitting. Named featured consignee at my senior center for the month of January, 2015. At a younger age a neighbor (a non-crafter) told me her employer (the local bank) was having a dress the doll contest. The dolls would be given to underprivileged children. I was disappointed because, of course, I was not eligible to participate. That same neighbor called me later that day and said a co-worker of hers, Mary S, would like to get a doll for me to dress. We figured it's for charity, so a little bending of the rules would be ok. I made a pink and white gingham dress with matching undies, a pink sweater, hat, stockings and mittens. A few weeks went by and I got a call from Mary S. She had had a call from corporate asking her to come down for a group photo of all the winners and that "she" had won honorable mention. She had no problem with it, but I felt guilty. She got a certificate for the wall near her work station and I got the $5 which covered the expenses. We never got caught by anyone including Mary S's brother the cop. Some underprivileged child got a traditional baby doll in pink and white.