Packaging Nightmare

Sooooo POed!!!! I know I usually don't post about things like this but I need to vent - I've mentioned before that I have new product on the way for Knitterella and I was soooo close to a final product - the printing part has been done and paid for months now but my packaging JUST fell through.


SOOOOO freakin' frustrating! The sample I got from the tin manufacture (whom I could link to here but I won't) was a perfect fit and perfect look, PERFECT! So of course I ordered them but once my big order of tins came in the lids didn't fit, won't even stay on the base - sooo not what the sample they sent was - and there is no way I could produce and sell something knowing that it's faulty. I was just picturing someone buying this and tossing it in there crafting bag, the lid falling off and all the contents spilling out everywhere - I'd be pissed. BUT now I don't know what the heck to do. I already paid for the labels for the tins and will now have to eat that cost as I look for another way to package my product. GGgggrrrrrrr!!!!

I'm just dying to show you my new product too but it's going to have to wait until I can figure this out… so frustrating! So I guess this is 'to-be-continued' for now…

…hey, thanks for listening.

Did you knit that?

Yesterday I was out running errands on my lunch break (wearing this) and someone asked…

"Did you knit your little top?"

"Yes, I did."

"It's cute."

I thought about this all day yesterday because it actually bugged me. It bugged me because this lady didn't know I was a knitter so why would she ask if I knit my top? It made me feel like my top looked homemade. I don't want my clothes to look homemade. It brought my knitting confidence down a bit…

I mean, it's one thing when a friend of family member says, "Hey, did you knit that?" — They know you well enough and know you are a knitter and they actually expect you to say, "Yes." (Actually, if someone that knows I'm a knitter asks me if I knit something and I didn't I almost feel like a sell-out but that is a whole other story!).

What I'm getting at here is as a pretty experienced knitter I want someone to stop me in my tracks and say…

"Love that! Where did you get it?"

"Oh thanks, it was a lot of fun to make."

"You mean… you knit that???"

"Yes I did. I love to knit."

"Wow! I thought it like cost a small fortune or something! Very cool!"

I don't think this is this is too much to hope for, do you? I mean, do you hear me knitters??? ;)