Lusik came to Los Angeles from Armenia in the late 1970s, with a cross-stitch hoop and the way of working her mother and grandmother had taught her. She lived in East Hollywood — what people there call Little Armenia — and later moved south to Orange County, where she lives and stitches today.

What she does is cross-stitch by hand. On every blanket, the first three letters of the alphabet — Ա, Բ, Գ in Armenian, or A, B, C in English — placed one tiny X at a time onto soft cloth woven through with the Armenian pomegranate. For other letters, or a name you'd like spelled out, please write her directly. She always says yes.

The bib is different. The bib is machine-embroidered with a personalized name — five or six letters, no more — because a bib lives in the washing machine three times a week and the name has to survive. The blanket goes in the crib. The bib goes to the table. Each piece gets the technique that fits the life it's going to have.

Her sons built this website. Mom does the stitching. We do the typing.