From the Editors

by Allegra Wermuth and Brandy Fortune

What a wonderful year 2010 has been! We celebrated our first birthday, we met each other in person (!) as well as so many of our contributors, half of us has signed her first book deal, we started our popular Renaissance Mom interview series, and we continue to be blown away by the designs that we publish. I think that defines a great year!

Our Winter 2010 collection is full of wonderful knits and crocheted items for the cold weather. We feel so blessed to have such talented designers for each issue, and it's great to see kids wearing such stylish designs! We have some great sewing tutorials and lovely articles as well. 2010 has been an amazing year for craft books, it blows my mind. Our Show and Tell includes many of these, but also check our blog for more great Show and Tell.

Speaking of our blog, have you seen our great book giveaway? There is still time to leave a comment! Also, there will be another giveaway announced tomorrow on the blog, so be sure to tune in.

We would like to give a heartfelt thanks to Joan, our wonderful tech editor for all of her hard work and our contributors for their creativity and inspiration. We cannot thank our advertisers enough---we wouldn't be able to do this without them. Please go spend some time supporting them. If you support them, you support us even more and we like that :)

Finally, we'd like to thank you, our readers. Your love for our magazine inspires us to work hard to bring you high quality fashion for kids. We wish you a very happy, safe and of course, a very crafty holiday season.

Make sure you take a look at our Petite Purls shop! We have some fantastic Petite Purls and Renaissance Moms swag.

Allegra & Brandy