Hello.  My name is Emma Bartholomew.  I'm a dual Irish/American citizen.  I was born in Los Angeles, California as a US citizen.  A year ago, on February 16, 2005, I became an Irish citizen via marriage.  I recently sent off for my Irish passport.  My husband George is a native of Dublin, Ireland.  He became a US citizen 3 years ago after living in the US for 13 years.

I am also a knitter.  I enjoy knitting, but I'm not obsessed with it all the time.  I go through phases of knitting/not knitting.  When I am knitting, I go through phases also.  For awhile before the winter holidays, I was doing a lot of felting.  I made bags for myself, my new sister-in-law Lizzie and my eldest niece Catherine.  I also knitted & felted a purse that I'm still working on since I need to add some support to it.  I'm not much of a sewer so that's what's slowing me down.  I also knitted my first fair isle project - a drawstring bag for my sister Maggie.  And I made scarves for George and his brother Mark.

For the 2006 Knitting Olympics, I made a Fenna shawl.  You can see pictures of it here.  I'm now working on a pair of socks for my husband.  I'm using the "Madder Ribbed Sock" pattern from Nancy Bush's Knitting Vintage Socks book.  I will start a circular shrug for my youngest niece Sarah this weekend for her 14th birthday.  I found the pattern on the web at a craftster.org forum. 

I'll save more for later.  Meanwhile, welcome to my blog!