Dear Knitter,
This month we have a new patterncard kit design. The Gleann Beag is a new version of the Gleann Mòr, designed for those who prefer a straight shape to a deep rib, but otherwise it has the same gradient colour changes throughout the design. It is shown here in a colour palette of Selkie with Red Rattle, Clover, Erica, Limpet and Kelpie for a deep, rich look. You can find the Gleann Beag here.
Jade is currently knitting a second Gleann Beag, this time in a main colour of Glen, with contrasts of Driftwood, Mountain Hare, Corncrake, Sundew and Golden Plover. Your can see it in progress here alongside the other colour palette versions of the Gleann Mòr and Gleann Beag designs. This shows how much your colour choices change the overall look of this design.
The Eagle Collar is now back in stock in both six and seven layer versions in your own choice of colours. You can see both the six and seven layer versions here.
We have some news for our customers in the European Union (EU) and Norway (this does not affect customers outside the EU). The EU and Norway now require all businesses sending packaging to the EU to have a representative and pay EPR registration fees with recycling organisations in each country that they ship to.
EPR stands for Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging, and means that businesses must now financially contribute to the disposal or recycling costs of the packaging they send.
This has meant that many micro businesses like ours have had to temporarily stop sending to EU countries. You can read more about this here. We are currently waiting for our EPR registration numbers for Germany, France, Sweden and the Netherlands. We hope to have these very soon and expect to be sending to those countries by the end of October at the latest. We are also keeping an eye on the requirements for other countries within the EU and Norway. As every country has its own specific interpretation of the EPR policy and its own fees and requirements, this makes for very complicated procedures, but we hope that we will be able to expand the number of EU countries which we supply in the future. We will keep you posted on this through our social media and also in our newsletters. In the meantime our digital online courses (some of which you can see here) are unaffected by this and still available worldwide.
We have been busy adding images from our last shoot with Natalia to our website. You can see some of them here with the Eala Bhan and Hirta Hat Set, the Firebirds Full Set, and the dark and pale Lapwing and Conachair Sets.
I have busy knitting all summer and am just finishing my third coat for the Heroine Collection. A complex design like this requires several prototypes in which I make small changes in order to finalise the pattern. This makes it a long and slow process but his autumn I will be making a fourth and final coat which I will use as the sample piece for a video class to accompany the written instructions.
We will be back next month with another shoot (this time with Eloise) and hopefully some good news for our customers in the EU. And if Jade can knit fast enough, we will also have a new design for you!
Happy knitting,
Alice
