Owner of hairsalon/indie designer boutique “The Ginger Suite Salon” has been haunting me for the longest to knit some of my designs to be put out in her salon. “Kassandra, do you realize how much work that would be for me?”, I constantly would reply, but that would not keep her from backing off.
Finally, I succumbed and agreed to debut my work at the Ginger Suite Holiday Party which took place last Saturday. I was quite nervous about it as I did not know how non-knitters would respond to my work. And also, would I be able to whip up a bunch of inventory on time?
Feeling overwhelmed
For the past month I have been knitting knitting knitting my little fingers off in order to meet the deadline of December 13th. A few days before the party, Kassandra came to my house to view my inventory and as she stood at my table I expressed my concerns that I would not have enough.
How relieved I was when her reaction was something like “Oh my, you knitted all that???!!!!???”
And as she gasped at all of my goods (over 10 pairs of fingerless gloves and 16 cowls), I suddenly realized that I had unnecessarily freaked myself out by thinking that amount of inventory would not suffice!
Succesfully Exhausted
Dear reader, I am happy to report that my knitted goods were received well by the ladies who came to The Ginger Suite Holiday Party last Saturday. I cannot begin to explain to you how happy I am about that!
To see women trying on my work and then buying it… ah… words cannot express how relieved I was.
So, dear reader, I hope you do understand why I was not able to blog that frequently over the past few weeks… I have been working hard on my debut at the Ginger Suite Salon, which entailed knitting and finishing untill way past midnight for several weeks in a row!
Now that the pressure is gone, I feel exhausted…succesfully exhausted though…
This blog entry does not do the party any justice though… if you want to see more, please visit The Ginger Suite Salon myspace account.
Theme of the party were vintage slips, earrings and knitwear by Portland indie designers.
Also, if you are interested in receiving an invitation to next year’s Holiday Party, please leave me a comment (that way I can see what your e-mail address is and btw, I am the only one who can see your e-mail adress so don’t worry about that) and I will include you in the invitation list!
On another note…
Not only have I been working on inventory, but I also have been working on my patterns. I am so incredibly happy to report to you, my dear reader, that Getting Purly With It patterns have been selling well at CloseKnit’s on Alberta Street in Portland, Oregon.
The first ‘generation’ of my patterns are made in the program Word and contain no pictures. However, I have been meeting up with graphic designers and I am so excited about that! I just cannot wait to show you how my patterns will look like when they are ready…
Needless to say that I have been pretty busy…but I am not complaining because what I do right now in my life, I do out of mere passion. And that is a damn good thing…! SWEEEET!!!
Thank you for reading and untill the next entry (which will be very soon, I promis)!
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