As the end of summer draws ever nearer and the trees start to change colour and lose their leaves, seasonal knitters begin to return to their needles and we return to our blog. I will not repeat the promises made of well over a year ago and commit to daily or weekly postings, but will be happy to say we will do our best !
Over the last few weeks we have established our very own group on Ravelry called 'Get Knitted ~ In Stitches'. We have been thrilled that in a very short space of time we have gained over 90 members worldwide. The group offers an additional means of communication between ourselves and our friends and customers enabling those who live a long way away to feel part of our woolly world!
For those of you more local to the Bristol & Bath area that enjoy a visit to us, it may be worth popping into the diary a couple of forthcoming events :
~ Saturday 7th November 2009 from 10.30am - 5.00pm
The Get Knitted Team will be taking their 'GET KNITTED~GET HOOKED' roadshow to the MISI Makers event at the Paintworks in Bristol.
MISI ('Make It Sell It') is the UK's online craft marketplace. Homecrafters use the website www.misi.co.uk to set up their own online shops and sell their creations. Paintworks is Bristol's creative quarter, and the ideal venue for this launch event. An enjoyable day out and perfect start to Christmas shopping, Get Knitted will be their all day teaching knitting & crochet, offering advice and help and catching the inspired to take up the sticks!! It will be fun and informal and we would love to see you there.
~ Friday 4th December - Saturday 5th December
Get Knitted will be hosting it's very own Christmas Craftacular ! You will have the opportunity not only to enjoy our large store but also meet local artisans and craftspeople selling carefully handcrafted gift items. Inspiration abounds as the store comes to festive life in this Xmas Xtravaganza.
We are also starting to put together our schedule of Workshops for the coming year, so keep an eye on the website, and blog for a full and exciting programme of events.
More details to follow.
Happy Knitting!
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Monday, March 24, 2008
Easter Greetings ~ New Things ~ Team Spirit
Firstly may I start by wishing you all a Happy Easter....I realise it is a little later than is traditional, but technology, too much chocolate and two very active little girls have conspired against me this weekend.
Now I realise that what happens back of office has a certain enigmatic quality which in some respects should remain a mystery, but some things are worth shouting about. Not to dispell too many myths, the Get Knitted Team do not sit around knitting all day. Admittedly small parts of the day have us standing around a freshly delivered parcel saying 'Ooooooh' and sometimes 'Aaaaah' and this happened only last week when we were treated to new colours from Koigu and a new shipment of Lorna's Laces with new shades and their 'Little Cans of Paint'. Please remember we suffer...so you don't have to !!!! Keep checking out the website for these super new shades.
Most of the time we spend working our little hand knitted socks off dealing with orders, and we only recently recorded in one day, processing and packing 164 parcels to be delivered around the world, answering 221 emails, manning the shop which had customers in it the entire day, collating a further 72 orders for the next days posting and answering 47 phone calls !!! No mean feat for a team of 9
I have to tell you about the latest hair brained plan.....not strictly knitting related but marvellous all the same. Sue, Hannah, Jalea and myself from Get Knitted are in training. We form part of a team that will be running the Bristol Half Marathon in September this year. We will be running for a very worthy cause and something very dear to my heart...The Meningitis Research Foundation. Our team is of mixed abilities, is the kindest way of putting it ! But I cannot tell you all how proud I am of them. Alongside our normal blog we will keep you updated with our progress...the highs and the lows.
Anyway, more to follow in the next few days.....
Happy Easter
Laura
Now I realise that what happens back of office has a certain enigmatic quality which in some respects should remain a mystery, but some things are worth shouting about. Not to dispell too many myths, the Get Knitted Team do not sit around knitting all day. Admittedly small parts of the day have us standing around a freshly delivered parcel saying 'Ooooooh' and sometimes 'Aaaaah' and this happened only last week when we were treated to new colours from Koigu and a new shipment of Lorna's Laces with new shades and their 'Little Cans of Paint'. Please remember we suffer...so you don't have to !!!! Keep checking out the website for these super new shades.
Most of the time we spend working our little hand knitted socks off dealing with orders, and we only recently recorded in one day, processing and packing 164 parcels to be delivered around the world, answering 221 emails, manning the shop which had customers in it the entire day, collating a further 72 orders for the next days posting and answering 47 phone calls !!! No mean feat for a team of 9
I have to tell you about the latest hair brained plan.....not strictly knitting related but marvellous all the same. Sue, Hannah, Jalea and myself from Get Knitted are in training. We form part of a team that will be running the Bristol Half Marathon in September this year. We will be running for a very worthy cause and something very dear to my heart...The Meningitis Research Foundation. Our team is of mixed abilities, is the kindest way of putting it ! But I cannot tell you all how proud I am of them. Alongside our normal blog we will keep you updated with our progress...the highs and the lows.
Anyway, more to follow in the next few days.....
Happy Easter
Laura
A Welcome to the World !
The Get Knitted Team would like to welcome the bonny arrival of Scarlet, and congratulate Jules and James on the birth of their new daughter. Well done and good luck on your onward voyage into parenthood.....it often proves to be a complete mystery, but we muddle through !!!!!
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Space...Best Wishes...and a New Season !
Well what a hectic time we have been having here at Get Knitted.......we won't dwell on the gremlins from the previous post but take a deep breath and bring you the latest updates.
The first of which, is the issue of space. With all of the fantastic new season stock arriving, we had to look about the place and see where we could gain some space....we looked.....and there she was in all her blooming glory.....Jules ! She had been growing for some time, bless her, but it finally got to the stage that we couldn't convince her that her feet were still there anymore ! Watching her look at the things on the lower shelves knowing that they had become unobtainable was too much to bear ! She now moves on to a new and exciting phase in her life. We miss her already and wish her and James the absolute best on their voyage of discovery as parents.
We have all checked out the new season shapes, designs and yarns, have looked through the books and have oooohed and aaaahed. Colours seem to be bright and bold which is refreshing and seems to add a little hope for a better spring/summer than last year.
Now then if you are stuck for a Mothers Day gift idea, you may wish to keep checking out the website, as we are hoping to bring you magazine subscriptions fairly shortly, among other things......we will keep you posted.
As the weather is improving and our thoughts are turning to summer holidays and adventures both home and abroad. We would like you to consider sending us your pictures of 'Get Knitted' in the extreme ! There is however, a criteria....we would like to see the Get Knitted pen in the oddest, most famous or downright weirdest places in the world.....on board a pirate ship for example ! We would like to create a gallery of knitterly fun.
We know you are an intrepid lot...but please bear in mind that this is a bit of harmless fun.......do not take any unnecessary risks with your pens!
Okay then...that's me done for now....I will be back shortly with an exclusive interview with one of the Get Knitted team.....see what makes them knit, what gets them in a spin and what gets them in a knot !!!
Take care
Laura
The first of which, is the issue of space. With all of the fantastic new season stock arriving, we had to look about the place and see where we could gain some space....we looked.....and there she was in all her blooming glory.....Jules ! She had been growing for some time, bless her, but it finally got to the stage that we couldn't convince her that her feet were still there anymore ! Watching her look at the things on the lower shelves knowing that they had become unobtainable was too much to bear ! She now moves on to a new and exciting phase in her life. We miss her already and wish her and James the absolute best on their voyage of discovery as parents.
We have all checked out the new season shapes, designs and yarns, have looked through the books and have oooohed and aaaahed. Colours seem to be bright and bold which is refreshing and seems to add a little hope for a better spring/summer than last year.
Now then if you are stuck for a Mothers Day gift idea, you may wish to keep checking out the website, as we are hoping to bring you magazine subscriptions fairly shortly, among other things......we will keep you posted.
As the weather is improving and our thoughts are turning to summer holidays and adventures both home and abroad. We would like you to consider sending us your pictures of 'Get Knitted' in the extreme ! There is however, a criteria....we would like to see the Get Knitted pen in the oddest, most famous or downright weirdest places in the world.....on board a pirate ship for example ! We would like to create a gallery of knitterly fun.
We know you are an intrepid lot...but please bear in mind that this is a bit of harmless fun.......do not take any unnecessary risks with your pens!
Okay then...that's me done for now....I will be back shortly with an exclusive interview with one of the Get Knitted team.....see what makes them knit, what gets them in a spin and what gets them in a knot !!!
Take care
Laura
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Email problems and apologies
Jalea here, hoping that our faithful readers will spread the word and apologize to those we can't get to.
We've started losing a lot of emails recently, which on top of everyone being ill at some point since Christmas has put us horribly behind. This week, for the first time, everyone is healthy, and even better, I've finally found what's been happening to all those lost emails!
I also discovered that we've been losing them for ages, so it must have seemed that we were ignoring you, sorry :(
This means the hopefully the email problem is fixed, but we have a huuuuge backlog of mails to get through (when we can find them for spam) so it's going to take a while!
The orders are also rather backlogged, but we seem to now be lurgy free (finally) so are working as hard as we can to catch up.
We can only offer our apologies to all our patient customers, and ask our loyal readers to spread the word that things are slower than usual for a while, but we are trying our very best!
If you want to chase orders, give us a ring (0117 300 5211).
We've started losing a lot of emails recently, which on top of everyone being ill at some point since Christmas has put us horribly behind. This week, for the first time, everyone is healthy, and even better, I've finally found what's been happening to all those lost emails!
I also discovered that we've been losing them for ages, so it must have seemed that we were ignoring you, sorry :(
This means the hopefully the email problem is fixed, but we have a huuuuge backlog of mails to get through (when we can find them for spam) so it's going to take a while!
The orders are also rather backlogged, but we seem to now be lurgy free (finally) so are working as hard as we can to catch up.
We can only offer our apologies to all our patient customers, and ask our loyal readers to spread the word that things are slower than usual for a while, but we are trying our very best!
If you want to chase orders, give us a ring (0117 300 5211).
Thursday, January 24, 2008
A Resolution begins !
We are racing towards the end of January and one of my New Year resolutions was to get my hands on the blog a little more often. Only once last year were my insane babblings unleashed on an unsuspecting public, but on the basis that we have not proved thus far to be the best group of bloggers in the world, I am hoping to bring you more this year !
I am going to try to entice you with new things, news from the GK team and insights into the people who work here and what makes their needles tingle ! We can and we will do better !
To be honest, I would like to succeed with this resolution as it will ease pressure off of the others. Promises to be slimmer, fitter and only eat chocolate on special occassions are fragile from the outset, and often by the middle of January I find myself celebrating the dawn of every new day with a Crunchie !!
Now then...January has been a very busy month. We opened our shop doors last year, 2007, on January 20th so we are now toddling about as a 1 year old store and trying hard to make all of the right noises ! This is a special day for me anyway, as Lexie, my youngest daughter now 5 celebrates her birthday too (Lydia has to wait a whole 9 days efore she is 7, apparently thats ages !).
The atmosphere was fantastic when the Ravelry crowd came for a visit. It was great to see so many happy knitters gathered around the sofas having what can only be described as a right laugh. They came prepared for there adventure.....some even brought chocolate. What a game bunch !! Lovely to see them all.
So that will be all from us here for today......if you haven't checked out our sale section yet........where have you been ? There are some great bargains to be had....though if you have made one of those silly 'stash busting' resolutions, my advice would be don't go there! You had best not look at the gorgeousness from Uruguay either, its too delicious and made Sue & Gail 'yarn broody' !
Bye for now
Laura
I am going to try to entice you with new things, news from the GK team and insights into the people who work here and what makes their needles tingle ! We can and we will do better !
To be honest, I would like to succeed with this resolution as it will ease pressure off of the others. Promises to be slimmer, fitter and only eat chocolate on special occassions are fragile from the outset, and often by the middle of January I find myself celebrating the dawn of every new day with a Crunchie !!
Now then...January has been a very busy month. We opened our shop doors last year, 2007, on January 20th so we are now toddling about as a 1 year old store and trying hard to make all of the right noises ! This is a special day for me anyway, as Lexie, my youngest daughter now 5 celebrates her birthday too (Lydia has to wait a whole 9 days efore she is 7, apparently thats ages !).
The atmosphere was fantastic when the Ravelry crowd came for a visit. It was great to see so many happy knitters gathered around the sofas having what can only be described as a right laugh. They came prepared for there adventure.....some even brought chocolate. What a game bunch !! Lovely to see them all.
So that will be all from us here for today......if you haven't checked out our sale section yet........where have you been ? There are some great bargains to be had....though if you have made one of those silly 'stash busting' resolutions, my advice would be don't go there! You had best not look at the gorgeousness from Uruguay either, its too delicious and made Sue & Gail 'yarn broody' !
Bye for now
Laura
Friday, January 18, 2008
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