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Work, Work, Work…
Jun 21st
It’s crunch time people.
We are in the studio fighting unbearable heat and making KNITPacks like crazy people.
My Aunt Jan has a friend who saw my mom’s KNITPACK Ultimate and she immediately wanted one. (All of Aunt Jan’s friends have great taste, what can I say?!) She also works in a yarn store in Michigan and wants the owner to see one.
Ummm, let me think, YES!
So off to JoAnn’s and then to the studio to cut and plan and sew.
I know most of you out there love a handmake product, but many time, and I am guilty of this, I forget how much effort goes into each piece.
The Ultimate reminds me of that EVERY TIME I MAKE ONE!
I love the Ultimate, but sometimes it seems never ending.
Here is the first stage, after of course cutting. This is where we decide which fabrics lay where and how to best match the canvas for the Interchangeable pocket.
Stage two is sewing all the Interchangeable pockets. I will spare you the tedium…
Here is stage three: We lay out the ribbons and decide which ones look the best.
Stage four is where we cut each ribbon for all the different pockets and fold lines.
Stage 5 is where we START sewing.
I think you are probably getting my point, but I have to say, when we are done, it is totally worth it in every way.
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Oh, Canada…
Jun 19th
Today marks a momenteous event. Erin.Lane has had it’s first international client. A lovely lady on Etsy convo-ed me to see if we could ship internationally. I then easily found out that it was totally possible. I was thrilled I messaged her back and then promptly found out I had sold the item she wanted.
After several messages sent and received, while cleaning up the studio, I found the exact fabric already cut into the product she wanted, the KNITPack Crossover.
I informed her, mad the KNITPack, and rushed to the post office!
In no time, there it was going over land, not sea, to get to our northern neighbors in Canada.
I couldn’t think of a better way to start the summer, than shipping a KNITPack to another country.
HOORAY!
Free at Last, Free at Last…
Jun 11th
The school year is officially over, and I have had several days to sleep in and recuperate from the hectic and stressful year. Though I will miss many of my students as they go on to high school, I know that they will come back to see me on open house nights, so not all is lost.
After all the field trips, assemblies, play performances, and movie parties, I survived and have all my hair! It’s a miracle.
To celebrate the end of the school year and the beginning of summer, I have decided to have a little Etsy sale. Starting today and going until the 1st of July, everything in the shop will be 10% off the listed price.
This would be a great opportunity to stop shoving your knitting needles in a drawer and start getting them organized.
This will help you stop spending money on needles and allow you to put that 18 dollars for that pair of Addi’s into your next project!
Check the shop regularly. Since I am out of school the sewing machine never gets a day off. There will be a lot of new things listed everyday! I hope there is something for everyone, and like always, if you have a specific request, let us know. We will do what we can to make it a reality…
The Beginning of Spring Break
Mar 21st
This weekend has been a good weekend. We have been getting tons done, and best of all, I am not exhausted. Next best of all, I am not NOT NOT going to work TOMORROW!! I am going to stay up late, watch TV with my husband, and sleep in tomorrow morning. That is what will happen, but this is what is what HAS happened.
Saturday I slept in, that was truly special, for the first time in months. I called mom, and we went shopping. I know, you are surprised that we went shopping on a Saturday. We had gotten so many special orders that we had to go buy the fabric to fill them. While we were there, we got fabric to match mom’s favorite fabric, so she could make her bag. Also, we got me a fun fabric for a bag and an Ultimate. After shopping, I came home and was able to catch up with a friend I had not been able to see or chat with in almost a month. She was able to hang out instead of work for the first time in what seems like FOREVER. Not to mention she hasn’t been able to go to knit night because she is the only one who will close with this one person. So she was able to come over and hang. We had great time.
This morning when I got up I watched TV. That was fun since I didn’t have to worry about what I had to get done, because let’s remember, I am on Spring Break. (One of the only perks of teaching public school.) I called my mom, and we started working on the bags for her and me, so we can be “up to date” with the latest design. We had to run a few errands to find the correct color ribbon, then our sewing machine decided it wanted to have issues. We got that fixed and started sewing along.
We finished mom’s bag and it is BEAUTIFUL! It screams LISA all over and back again. Then, we decided that we should start on my bag. We cut everything cut out and then had the task of figuring out what to stamp on my bag. About this time, my husband came up to find out what we were doing for dinner. We posed the question to him about what to stamp on my bag. It is a tricky thing. It needs to encapsulate everything that I am, so we had to think because it also needs to be quippy and funny, not to mention knitty. I mentioned that I thought it would be cute if we turned KNIT into an acrostic. After about 5 minutes of all three of us staring at a blank piece of canvas, my husband says, “KNIT, Knitting Needles In Transit.” We all thought that was genius.
The best part is the fact that we already have KNITPacks which are designed to transport knitting needles. We were elated. We couldn’t believe that we had not thought of it before, but to celebrate we had burgers and continued to celebrate my husband’s genius.
On another exciting note, we are working on trying to get more retailers. Since I am on Spring Break, we have decided to try to get a few retailers that are within a day’s drive and going and talking to the owners. My friend in Chattanooga knows everyone there is to know in the knitting industry, and she has given us the names of several knitting stores that she thinks would like to carry our stuff. So we are going to start calling shops on Tuesday morning.
Big things happening for Erin.Lane. Keeping checking back for pictures of us in the studio and updates on if we are heading out to spread the Erin.Lane organizational goodness to all.
Get a Free StashSack through March 5th
Feb 23rd
In an effort to bring you better deals, we’re giving you a free Medium StashSack when you purchase a Carry All knitting tote or any KnitPack (Original, Interchangeable, or the new Knitting Needle Organization System!) needle case from now through March 5th!
Visit the Etsy store today to take advantage of this great offer. Organize, protect, store, and carry in any combination through this limited time sale. And yes, if you purchase both a Carry All and a KnitPack you get two Medium StashSacks!