I came up with the idea for the Viking knit tool about six years ago. I had a friend, we went to a class to learn how to do Viking knit and it was done on a dowel, a wooden dowel and I found it quite difficult and I didn't like doing it so I didn't pursue doing it. And then several years later this friend that I went with had a bead store in the town where I live in Idaho in the U.S. And she asked me to teach classes and I said, you know, I really don't want to. It was not fun at all. I didn't enjoy it. But she kept talking and talking to me about it and I finally agreed and we had a class and it was difficult for the students to do it the old way. So I sat down with my husband and we thought about the different ways that we could improve the experience, one being that if we could just start weaving immediately and we came up with a lazy, lazy tool. Because it gives you an immediate satisfaction, I think doing the weave itself is very restful and it's something that's very portable, something you can take with you easily. Stick in your pocket, you can go on the train with it or if you're sitting waiting for someone and it's an ancient technique and a quick technique and it just lends itself to doing a lot of different types of design with wire. So it's kind of an uncharted territory now that we have the tool everyone's able to make it faster. So we're seeing some really great designs coming up. The different types of materials I like to use are the wires. I haven't found anything else that really works well with this particular tool other than wire so it's really geared towards that. And I like to stay in the range, the US range would be like a 24 to 26 gauge wire. However my husband likes to work with the heavier gauges of wire in the 20 gauge and it can look more like a chain mail project. So anything, any kind of wire that will hold its shape can be used on the lazy daisy on either of the tools. I have been jewelry making for probably 50 years a long time. I didn't start with wire. Wires relatively new for me really with the invent of the lazy daisy tool before that. I was a bead artist and I've done a lot of different types of medium. I think just the creativity and as it could be even as a means of escape you know it's something that's very individual and very personal and I think it's just a great way to express yourself. Everything you know I will start with a project that I have in mind and then pursue the elements to go with that project but it never turns out that way. It's just a transition of the soul to what the design is. It could be something I saw in a parking lot, something I saw some trees, it could be our yard, it could be a model you know that I see on a fashion run or even color. Color is a very very big inspiration for me. I like Tanzanite a lot, realite. I really like the ones that have marbling textures where they're very very individual stones. I like those the best. You need a Viking knit tool, you need a spool of wire and you need a draw plate and that's it. Go and create.