Product Development Trenches

It's been a busy couple of weeks- making the push to ready samples for a private label customer. Some of the designs are very time-consuming for the knitters, so it's been a learning process for everyone involved. It's always fun to make something new. Although that's easy for me to say since I'm not the one manipulating the knitting machine (see video). The first design took 1500 minutes of knitting time (that's over three full days, with no distractions, breaks or interruptions- so more like five actual days just knitting one garment). They are beautiful, but rather expensive, so in the end they may not even be commercially viable. We are now making the second versions- streamlining the design to reduce production time and raw material requirements.