If you find yourself answering yes to the previous question, you want to keep reading.
We are just a week away from ending our IndieGoGo project. We need a new embroidery machine. Sue, our old embroidery machine, entered early retirement. She was a trooper, but she just couldn’t keep going; she was too tired.
So here is the deal, for the next 7 days if you donate at least $1o to the IndieGoGo project, you will be entered into a drawing for a $200 gift certificate for Erin.Lane goodies when we reach our $4500 goal. If you donate, you will also receive the perk that goes along with your donation and an entry in our drawing. If we reach our goal, we will draw and announce the winner on Friday, September 16, 2011.
Tell your friends. $10 could get you $200 of Erin.Lane goodies. Only 7 days left!
We were cleaning up the studio the other day, and realized something pretty amazing. Erin.Lane, our little weekend project is not just a little project anymore.
We were getting ready for our first show in February of this year. We were so excited about going to our first Stitches. We sewed and sewed and sewed, but we spent over 3 days picking fabrics. We were ordering it online from online store by the yard.
Just a few days ago. I took over 38 EMPTY BOLTS of fabric to the recycle bin to get them out of the way.
This took several trips, and was something that was pretty eye opening. I knew that it was a lot of fabric, because I had cut it all and all of that, but having to move all the bolts out of the studio was a real eye-opener. Also, not long ago we were also buying thread on sale every month at our local craft shop. Now, we are buying the thread by the box. Check this out.
See the several empty boxes, yea, those were full of thread. We thought we would have that beige thread for months. Yea, more like weeks. We didn’t order nearly enough.
It is amazing that just a few months ago, we weren’t even ordering anything in bulk, now we are ordering muslin in 120 bails.
The best part is it is all because we have the best customers in the world. Everyone tells everyone else, and that is what is so great. We have experienced great success, made it into a magazine, and it is all because of you guys. So, here it is, THANKS!
Knitters are the best people on earth.
We are working diligently to get everything ready for Stitches Midwest. We are super excited to announce that we are
BOOTH # 719
Not only that, but we are working hard to get the 120 buckets we want to take with us. Sue has trudged through finishing her 57th canvas in 30 days. She is tired, and if you can please help us hire her replacement by contributing to our IndieGoGo project. If you have already donated or want to help, please tell your friends. We are at about 25% of our goal. We need to know we can get that new embroidery machine when we get back from Stitches. Otherwise, we might not be able to make Buckets for the holidays. ACK! Please help us. To prove how tired she is, here is what she did one day.
I spent the entire day working to make her feel better, but last Wednesday, pretty much all I did was work with her. The reason that looks funny is because what you are looking at is the bobbin thread being pulled to the front of the canvas. Not a good thing. It took forever to fix, and a phone call where I was asked if I had the machine threaded.
You can imagine how I felt about that question.
But I diverge.
The main point of this was the fact that after tons of cutting, sorting, and sewing, we have made huge progress. We have all the KnitPacks ready for final touches meaning magnets and binding ribbon. Also, we have managed to get all the buckets ready to stuff and sew together…which means we could have the buckets done in the next 3-4 days! It took forever but they are all ready!
This is where I tell you the truth. When we make anything that has that nice stand up bottom, we have to draw the square on the bottom and then pull and sew them. After that, I have to cut that extra fabric off or it makes a mess in the bottom of a bag. This is how I feel about corners… I want them to die. All of them, forever and ever. This is what it looks like after I have done all the buckets.
Yes, Hank is hanging out with the corners. Mainly he hung out down by my feet to make sure I didn’t stab myself in the eye with the scissors. Thank God that is over.
Want to know the bad news, we have to do that many corners for the insides of the buckets, and for all the insides and outsides of the sock bags.
Did I mention that I don’t like corners? Yea, I have a lot of them in my future. Ugh. A cornering I go…
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So you know all that fabulous fabric we got. We had to cut it up. It is now waiting to be new KnitPacks, Buckets, Ewesfulls, Ewe Hauls, and you know what else, DRAWSTRINGS! It took us 8 hours of cutting over and over and over again, but we finally finished it. Now we just have empty bolts of fabric. Here is just what is going to make it into the drawstring category.
It doesn’t look like much, but let me tell you, it feels like a mountain of fabric. A MOUNTAIN! Like EVEREST! Thank God that is over for a little while.
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So, after a great deal of waiting and shopping, and waiting some more, we finally have received all the fabrics that we are planning on taking with us to Stitches Midwest.
First, we found a great little fabric company out of California that only prints a few lines, but they are amazing. We spent a little while on the phone and the sales person, Paul, actually would go to the warehouse and check to make sure the fabrics we were choosing were going to match. Talk about amazing, yea, meet Anthology Fabrics‘ Theory Line.
I know you are already in love, but there is more, oh so much more! We waited and waited and called and called and then one day unexpectedly our doorbell rang and *POOF* there is was, a fabric that wasn’t suppose to come in until the END of August. Just so you know, that is Joel Dewberry’s Aviary 2. It is super back ordered, but because we are such fabulous superheroes, we got it in early!
Last but not least, we got in another FABULOUS fabric line by Alice Kennedy. Portobello was something else we had to fight to get in before we left. We were super excited when we ordered it, but it got so much better when we opened the box. We thought it would be beautiful, but we didn’t know how pretty, here is a sneak peek!
We have a bunch to cut up and make into fabulous needle cases and bags. Check back for studio updates.
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