HO HO HO

I got an interesting call in July, 2011.  There was going to be a big spread announcing the new season of the TV show HOT IN CLEVELAND.  The publicity shots would be for billboards and magazine ads.  Would I be interested in making 3 Christmas sweaters?  Yes, definitely!  Well, the 3 sweaters would be similar, but not alike.  They would all be red, with snowflakes on them.  There should be some green and a little off white.  The snowflakes on each sweater would  be different snowflakes.  Perhaps one of the sweaters would have snowflakes on the top of the body, perhaps one would have snowflakes on the sleeves, perhaps one would have snowflakes on the bottom.  Each one would have a big HO on the front, so that when they were standing next to each other it would say HO HO HO.  The word PERHAPS was very important in the epic of making these sweaters.  It was design by committee and the instructions changed every hour, or so it seemed.  Let’s just say there was a lot of conversation before we could even start knitting.  First they were all to have the same neck, but that was finally changed to one V, one crew and one boat neck.  The ladies, Wendie Maick, Valerie Bertinelli and Jane Leaves, were all different sizes and heights, but the Hos had to line up evenly so they had to be placed in different spots on the fronts of the sweaters.  Oh, and did I say we had 2 weeks to make the 3 sweaters?  Luckily they had purchased a Blue sweater for Betty White.  Lots of aggravation, lots of  worrying, lots of knitting and re-knitting but later what a thrill it was to see the billboards all over Hollywood and to see the ads in several magazines. 

That’s Show Business!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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