Doing the Fiber Festival

Laura was not able to make it, but I was at the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival, drinking in the last of the season.

Cool mornings, flitting about, talking to vendors and spinning in the afternoon's hot sun. I'm pretty darn sure it doesn't get better than this.

I think I've got the "elevator speech" down about what it is we're doing.
For those of you, just joining us now on this blog, this is what we're doing!

October 15th, we're opening our eCommerce store doors, at this address.
We're bringing the finest in Fiber-Arts kits, right to your door.
What loveliness have we got for you?

Crochet,
Knitting
Needlepoint,
Tatting
Embroidery
Multiple types of felting
Sewing
Paper crafts
Spinning
And more!

This is stuff you're not going to find ANYWHERE else.
Are we sleeping until then?
Ummmm. Not really.
But, we're happy campers excited to meet our public.

Morning in Paradise

Sometimes we get to work an entire day with each other, live.
Sometimes we have a long morning meeting.
Today was one of those days, each of us with goodies to share from the cool stuff we're testing, designing and getting in the mail.
We love our business cards, thanks to Evan.

We're lovin' la vida Krafti! (indulge us, we're just really excited)

We Want to!

We are SO tempted to show you the cool stuff that's gonna be in our store.
But we can't.
Seriously, what a spoiler!!
So, just for today, a wee little teaser...

Sincerely, Laura and Melissa
(the ones surrounded by the loveliness...)

We've Got it Goin' On

These days we're busy testing kits of all sorts. For some of us that means learning new skills, for others, brushing up on old ones. Our aim is to really represent all of the Fiber-Arts. No small thing, as you can imagine!

We're taking it to the spreadsheet, filling the columns with the different crafts represented. And now we're already starting to design our own kits to fill in some of those categories.

Right now I'm on this personal mission to bring hand sewing back into the limelight. I have to say, even after all my years of being a professional in the clothing design arena, if I can hand sew something without taking my machine out, I'm a happy camper. So all the sewing kits are being written for the hand-sewer.

The website is coming along, things are crazy busy but I think we can both safely say that so far we're loving it. We hope you come to as well.

Countdown Update

Yes, as many of my emails have stated, we're on a fast track to getting up and selling. By mid-October, this web address will become our online store. If you didn't know how hard we're working, this might seem a little crazy to you. Yes, we're gonna do it.

So, it's a learning curve of course, for you and us. One of the things that coming up for our prospective vendors is having a pricing plan that works for wholesale. Some of the suggestions I'm passing on to folks is to leave more of the kit "raw". Meaning, if here's fabric cutting to do, let the crafter do it and provide paper patterns. Things like this can make a huge difference.

In many cases, once you have instructions for one kit done, some simple editing can make those work for another kit. That really is the way the development of a kit works. There's a certain amount of time up front, but then that gets passed onto the sum of all the kits your sell us.

Things we're still looking for? Crocheted and tatted lace kits, embroidery kits for finished items like table linens.