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" She&amp;#039;s used to asking the questions, but we turned the tables on Inside Edition anchor Deborah Norville to get her outlook on embracing your inner domestic goddess.   Millions know you as a veteran journalist, but you&amp;#039;re also an enthusiastic crafter. Why don&amp;#039;t more people know about your creative side?    At one point in my career, I had bosses who said that being a mom was a &amp;quot;career negative.&amp;quot; It wasn&amp;#039;t something the brass wanted me to talk about. You can imagine how thrilled they would have been to have me discussing knitting, sewing and crocheting. So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts. But recently I decided, the heck with that. I&amp;#039;m going to be who I am, and that&amp;#039;s someone who loves doing crafty things.   What does needlework give you?    A sense of self-worth, for one. I&amp;#039;m proud to be able to say, &amp;quot;I made that!&amp;quot; Plus, it&amp;#039;s therapy for me. It&amp;#039;s my way of releasing all the insanity of life in the big city and life in general. I also think it reinforces connections. biggest joy is taking something made with all your heart and passing it on to another.   You&amp;#039;ve passed on the art of knitting to your 11-year-old daughter, Mikaela. Why was it important for you to do that?   My little girl learned when she was about 8, just like I did from my mom. It&amp;#039;s a family tradition.   What&amp;#039;s your favorite thing you&amp;#039;ve ever made?   Christmas stockings for my kids. I know they&amp;#039;ll be hung for years to come, even when I&amp;#039;m no longer around to see them.   Do you think everyone has the potential to be creative?    The biggest impediment to many things in life is our own sense of &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t.&amp;quot; Well, yes you can! Embrace your inner domestic goddess. And if you haven&amp;#039;t found her yet, give knitting a try. It starts one stitch at a time.   Is that what inspired you to write Knit with Deborah Norville: 18 Classic Designs for the Whole Family, and launch a yarn line?   Yes. When you&amp;#039;re true to who you are, amazing things happen. That&amp;#039;s what happened to me once I let the world know during interviews that I&amp;#039;m a crafter at heart. The folks at Premier Yarns contacted me out of the blue about partnering with them. Then the chance to do a knitting book came along. I know what the &amp;quot;I can do it&amp;quot; sentiment can do.   What does your husband think of all your crafting?    One time a few years ago I was sewing at three in the morning! My husband walked in and asked, &amp;quot;What are you doing?&amp;quot; I said, &amp;quot;Karl, we live in New York. Everyone we know has a shrink. I have a Kenmore.&amp;quot; He finally understood.   Find Deborah&amp;#039;s yarn line, The Deborah Norville Collection: Serenity, at crafts stores and at premieryarns.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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