Breaking the Blog Silence

I realise that I am not a natural Blogger. It has been 7 months since my last post! I also know that as much as I would love to blog more often, time just does not allow. The last 7 months have been spent increasing our main line offering of dog coats and jumpers, and I have been putting in a huge amount of time working  on our Knitted Dog Jumper Kits.

Some of you might have bought one of our Knitted Dog Jumper Kits and have already enjoyed knitting a warm jumper for your dog. Since launching this product in September last year, it seems that they have great appeal with dog loving knitters. So I set about improving the offering and increasing the range of sizes. After all knitting is my great passion....

I wanted to add jumpers for Toy Dogs and Dachshunds so I designed jumpers that would flatter these dogs. Then I got my small but growing team of knitters to work with the needles. I chose Rowan wool cotton for this range as I love this yarn and have knitted jumpers for Bruno with it in the past and know that it is a great choice. 

We took some great photographs.....sourced a box that is made in Kent, sourced some knitting needles, sewing and cable needles, checked and rechecked the patterns, then I was ready to order the yarn....and to my dismay, one of our 'girl' colours had been discontinued!! Some deep breathing was undertaken, new colours were chosen, knitters were set to clicking again, and new photographs are being done this weekend.

Then we will be ready to finalise the artwork, get the patterns and labels printed, and kits assembled so that we can start to offer them to you lovely dog loving knitters! 

There is even going to be a dedicated website for the kits, but more about that in the next post. 

 That will be keeping me busy for a few more weeks, but I will be doing another post shortly. 

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Happy Busy Days

How can it be that three months has gone by since my last blog post! 

 What has been keeping me busy I here you ask! For this I feel the need for a list.

Shooting our Autumn/Winter products with our favourite photographer (on the hottest day of the year)

Getting an order ready for the lovely White Stuff - yes you read that right, they have seen the sense in adding in some stylish dog clothes to their product list, and are taking delivery of some exclusive dog jumpers and bandanas next week.

A re order of waterproof dog coats for our friends at Hawkshead, who have put them into 4 of their shops, Hawkshead, Buxton, Falmouth and Betws-y-Coed. All dog friendly shops.

Getting ready for Burghley Horse Trials, our biggest show of the year, and attending the show two weeks ago.

AND Getting the Knitted Dog Jumper Kits ready to launch at a trade show that we attended last week. ( this is a project that has been keeping me busy for the last 6 months )

so, you can see why there is no time to blog! 

All in all a very exciting time here at Redhound, and October sees the Kits going into several stockists, and our collaboration with Holland and Holland on beautiful wool tweed dog coats will be coming to fruition with delivery into their Mayfair store. 

I'd like to share a taste of the new Autumn products that are now available on line.

And the Knitting Kits......

Just a little taster, they are all on the website now, so if you love your dog and love to knit, why not get a kit and knit one of our super stylish dog jumpers. 

I sign off with every intention of writing to you again in less than three months! But Christmas is looming.....

Debbie