For those of you, my faithful followers, I would like to say that the light box triumph quickly turned into disaster once again.  After not taking pictures for oh, 2 days, the light box decided it did not need to stay in one piece.  In fact, it felt that 4 or 5 pieces would be to its liking. When this was discovered, I will only say that I was instantly in a bad mood.  However, if you have read previous blog posts or know me at all, you probably know that I am not that easily defeated.  I do not give up on things that help me accomplish a goal.  Angry, though I was, I remembered an old addage that I learned as a young girl while watching my parents fix up our home with all sorts of things.  I also often watched my mom and dad come across things  that were past their skill level, but not outside of their ability to figure out how to fix in some manner of speaking.

This is a common addage, you probably have heard it before, but when it came to me I promise it was like a bolt of lightning to my brain: “If you can fix it, Duck it.  If you can’t Duck it, chuck it!”

I promptly, after discovering said light box’s rebellion to my stable world, went out and purchased one roll of white Duct Tape.  Magic.

I promptly went to work…



Now I have to say that I am quite pleased with myself over the fact that I was able to defeat my most recent arch-nemesis, the light box.

The reason this was so important, was because, guess what?  I needed to take picutures, and though it has warmed up, it gets dark here at like 4.  Depressing.  I know.

The reason I absolutely had to take pictures was because while hanging out with my best friend in the whole world and talking about knitting and all the lovely things we are planning to try to knit and accomplish this year, the KnitPack came up in conversation.  And let me tell you people, my friend is a total genius.  I would say that if Einstein was still alive, she could give him a run for his money.  Realitivity bah, finguring out total KnitPack genius, that is my friend Brittany.

She mentioned that she loved her KnitPack Interchangeable, and she also loved her Original, however, she made the apt point that I myself had recently started to struggle with.  Once you get out what you need, say out of your Interchangeable, it seems you immediately need something out of your Original.

She then says the most brilliant thing I have ever heard about a KnitPack. “Could you combine the two, and have like a KnitPack Hybrid?”

Let’s just say that my head was immediately spinning into how to make this work.  I was drawing ideas neglecting my freshly cast on sock.  On my way home, I immediately called my mom and told her of Brittany’s TOTAL GENIUS!  She immediately started drawing ideas and told me that we would start the prototype mock up the next day.

Today was that day, and let me tell you we did manage to combine the KnitPack Interchangeable and the Original in quite a unique and space saving way.  However, we are worried that you might be, dare I say it, be able to pack this KnitPack to the point that even our adjustable magnetic closure won’t meet.

So dear friends, I need feedback.  I know that most people have gotten on the interchangeable needle system boat as that saves TONS of money on buying those lovely single circulars.  However, then you do always have to deal with the circulars that you had purchased before your interchangeable needle obsession, if you are like me at all, began. Also, what about your double points from that first hat you knit, to your favorite pair of sock needles.  AHHH!  How many pockets do you need.  Help friends.  I need to know what you think.

Of all of the configurations my mom and I came up with, this was what we thought was the best way to secure all of the different types of knitting needles from interchangeable to double pointed.   Please feel free to leave comments or email us with any suggestions and feedback.

As of right now, the current configuration is designed so that theinterchangeable needle system is an KnitPack within a KnitPack.  It pivots and has a divided pocket on the back of the needle pouch to hold your system’s cords.

The KnitPack Hybrid also features 8 pockets for your traditional circulars.  It also has 8 pockets for double points and/or crochet hooks.  

As if that wasn’t enough, I mean seriously, there is also the return of the KnitPack Notions on the right hand side that folds out and can hold everything from stitch markers to a measuring tape and back again.

Here’s the thing.  I don’t have that much stuff in this Hybrid and you can see it is pretty full.  Do you really need that many pockets for your ciruculars?  What about double points and crochet hooks?

I feel that Brittany’s genius is on the verge of getting Erin.Lane a fabulous new product, but I just want to make sure that it has everything that is needed before we finalize the design.  Feedback people feedback.  I will probably be at the sewing machine after school most days this week, but without feedback I won’t know what to change.  HELP!