My Fashionable Life

Wow Anna! I think it's a lovely idea! People are willing to spend so much on a machine knit acrylic sweater from a store like Anthropologie it seems that you would have a market indeed.

I hope it does well for you!

How exciting, Anna! I hope it exceeds every expectation you have for it. (I've gone and emailed Daily Candy London about it, by the way :))

Wow, gorgeous website!!! I wish you all the best!!

I love the idea as well as the beautiful, simple design of your blog! Are you going to be doing the knitting yourself?

I think it is a fantastic idea and the design of your page is LOVELY! Good luck I think it will be a great success...

I love it!! congrats

Good luck with your new endeavor! The site looks great!

Great idea, and I love how you have the little swatches showing the different colour combos they can choose from. Are you going to do all the knitting yourself? or do you have some little elves to help?

Congratulations and best of luck.

All best in your new pursuit!!!

Anna, this is a fantastic idea and the site looks great, very stylish and lovely, and the prices are very reasonable for a handknit. I hope you do well with it.

I wish you the best of luck!! I like your logo a lot. Very swish.

Congratulations, you are so talented, I'm sure your new business will be a great success!

Great idea--good luck!!

Beautiful web page. Are you going to handknit to order????? YOU are amazing. But then, we knew that. ;-)

Well I think it's a darn good idea and I hope you have fantastic business! Lotsa, lotsa good luck - you gooooooo!

wow anna, what a great website and a brilliant idea. you'll get lots of offers!! good luck!

Beautiful, inviting site. Congrats on your vernture, good luck!

congratulations and best of luck. Your "store" has all the things that can make no other than a great succes. Ithas style, the knitted items are pure luxury, and the way you present them are great!!!! Hope you get very busy!!!
hanne

Hope you get just the right amount of business :0)INdia

wow! how cool! love the idea and the site design. good luck!

What a brilliant idea! Congratulations on your new business. The site looks great, but I have one little suggestion. Make the swatch thumbnails clickable so they pop up with larger version of the image. I think people would like to see the detail.

Anna - what a great venture!! I am in love with the design of your store site. Are you really going to handknit the orders? You are so brave! :)

I love it, the website itself looks exactly as I thought it would. Perfect. I wish you lots of luck and success. xx

The site looks classic and just lovely.

Best wishes for success!

Wow, what a chic website! I'm sure you'll do really well; I'll certainly mention you to all my non-knitting friends (especially when they start dropping dark hints about me knitting something for them...) The best of luck to you!

what a great idea and a lovely website (but it wasn't as if i expected anything else!) good luck...i just know that if you are involved it is going to be a success.

It's lovely, Anna! Best of luck with it. do you want to know about typos? I think dilapidated is spelled with an 'i'. and were you going to post prices or does that follow after an inquiry?

Can't wait to hear how it goes for you.

I love that green and pink swatch for Jemima. It's exactly the colour combination I've had in mind for my Jemima for MONTHS now - and ordered the yarn last week! I'll let you know how I get on. Good luck with this venture Anna; I admire your courage and wish you all the best.

Wonderful idea. You have done a beautiful job of the design, so very well thought through. I had a online-store, these things take time. I wish you the best!

Hello Anna,
I also think it is a fantastic idea and this design of your page is ABSOLUT LOVELY! And your Lable ist so beautifully and exclusiv!! I wish good luck to you and I think it will be a great success for you!!! Toi...Toi...Toi, Maartje

It's a great idea and a beautiful website. Congratulations and much luck to you.

the bug i've run into is that i can't join the mailing list! when i try i get an error email bounced back saying the 'mailinglist' mailbox does not exist.

Congratulations! I love the layout of the new website. I love your idea but would love to see accesories like shawls, scarves, socks, etc added to your collection.

On another note, I'm knitting my first pair of socks using your Giotto pattern. So its my first time knitting socks, using the magic loop method, knitting picot edging. I bought your sock pattern set and would love to knit the other socks but do not know how to do a turkish cast on. If possible, can you include a tutorial on your site?

Thanks,
Liz

You never fail to amaze us, do you?
I love the concept, wish you all the best, I know you'll exceed everyone's expectation ;)
Anyway, Happy Easter!

Anna! How lovely, good luck with the new business and i am excited to see it grow with every beautiful design you make. I hope to perhaps join you tomorrow night at Knitting Hill! Congratulations on your wonderful endeavors!

I just stopped by to look around, fell in love with your designs, and then was so psyched to see you working up one of my scarves!

Your stuff is absolutely stunning - lovely!

Cool!!! Congratulations!

It's definitely a cool concept. I'll be interested to see how many people take you up on your services.

FABULOUS! Yeah for you. I can't wait to hear about all your successes as I am CERTAIN that they will come!

The Needle & Hook site looks great, Anna! Good luck on your new venture. I am sure your style and talent will ensure you much success!

Congratulations! It is strange -- when I have free time at work, I've used it to read your archives. I recall an entry about starting a business in which you quoted along the lines of: the first step is to take the first step. Something of that nature. I really admire your ability to pull it all together and to pull it off. Cheers to your new business!

Best wishes and every success! The site looks great. Very professional.

I think it's a great idea. Good luck to you!!

It looks fantastic! You've had the confidence to do, and so much more stylishly, what I thought I'd like to do. ~x~

Lovely clear site. Agree with Amy, though - if I were considering buying I'd want not just bigger pics when click on the thumbnail, but different views of the knits.

Beautiful site, and how exciting! I'm sure you'll have great success.

Oh, this is fabulous!! What a good idea. The site is gorgeous and your designs are always so fashionable. Do you think you'll do smaller items, like a sock or a scarf, for those that might want to get something, but can't afford a sweater?

First of all, congratulations from a devoted fan of your work!
Beautiful website to complement your fab designs as well.

One bug found: sizes on Jemima (To fit bust 32 (34: 46: 48: 40: 42)
looks like it should read: 32(34: 36: 38: 40: 42)

Everything else looks great…Cheers!

the new website looks great. you have a small typo in the jess details sections--'it's fit' should read 'its fit.'

I wish you luck with this. I know how hard it is to start a new business.

Wow! I'm so impressed! That's so awesome. I hope you have nothing but success.

And while we're on the topic of your lovely designs, I finished the Nautilus socks! I made them for my sock pal, and while they are too small for me, I seriously love them. Thanks for such a great pattern! I only hope my pal thinks the same. :)

LOL, I only meant "too small" because if they did fit me... I wouldn't give them up!! My pal has a shorter foot than I. :)

The website looks great. Best of luck with the new venture.

Not having read all the previous 54 commnets, I will add my humble voice to the crowd... And I am sure the the majority (like me) think that it is a wonderful idea. I think you might even find some beginning knitters interested, because they are not (yet) able to handle complex projects. The trick will be getting the word out to the right audience, of course! You may find that your local yarn store will be happy to advertise your services in their shop or newsletter, since you purchase your yarn and notions there...

Wow, great idea! If I was a quicker knitter, then I would probably consider doing something like that. Alas I am a middle-distance knitter, plodding along too slow for a sprint and not enough stamina for a marathon. Oh well!

The design of the site looks fantastic, but then again I am a sucker for the clean, simple and sophisticated.

Great idea Anna! Good luck with it - I think the garments are very reasonably priced, especially when you consider the price paid for kits to knit items yourself. Let us know how it goes...

The website looks great! Good luck in your business venture.

I love your new website! The collection is wonderful. Will you be adding other items to it? As I'm a knitter I probably won't order any, but it's a brilliant idea for people who don't knit, or just don't have enough time to make such polished knitwear as yours.
If I'm getting the pounds to dollars right, I think you're seriously under-charging for your work.

The designs are gorgeous, and the website is beautiful. Your pictures are so romantic, and the enlargements give the perfect amount of detail. So happy for you! Good luck with your new enterprise!

Yay yay double yay for you! Way to go!

The site looks great! How awesome for you. :D I hope you get your first order soon. Way to go, Anna!

Congratulations! Your site looks absolutely beautiful, I wish you the best of luck. I recently started a business myself and it's a scary, scary, enormously exciting thing. You will always be proud of having done it, no matter what happens. Now go forth and conquer. (...don't forget the marketing. Find the market in that niche!)

i love the design of the needle and hook site :) your knitting is so gorgeous that its wellworth the money :)

How cool!!Congratulations and best of luck!

A very beautiful site. Your designs are so amazing. The prices are absolutely justified. To success!

That's so cool, good luck Anna! xx

Congrats! It looks great.

*gasping for breath*

Oh my. OH MY. Can I afford a £165 cardigan? Because I really, REALLY want one.

Excuse me whilst I go and wheedle at my husband for a bit... :)

The site looks great and I love that you knit samples in the color offered. Good luck and keep us posted

Wow, what a site with class, love your knitwear,
I'm starting to save up now for one.

Hi- first time I've left a comment here, but I've been a lurking fan for a while. Just want to say your Needle and Hook site looks fabulous, but I've got one small comment about the picture used for 'Sally'- as soon as it caught my eye I couldn't get the thought out of my head- the angle of the photo makes the model (you?) look like your arms have been chopped off at the elbow and that you are very short bodied. This doesn't therefore do justice to the garment, which I'm sure is gorgeous. I think, because of the proportions of the knit, it needs a photo that shows it in relation to the body of the person wearing it.

Just my thoughts though- only mentioned it because it was the one slightly 'ouch' note in what is a fabulous site (with great garments) and it really jump(er)ed out at me....

What a brilliant idea and fabulous website! Congratulations, I hope this is going to be good business for you. The presentation of the garments is so sophisticated with the little swatches. Cute! Not to speak of the very reasonable prices. I hope you have some little elfes to help you knitting, otherwise I can see the problem that you might get bored with speedknitting your own creations. But anyway, all the best for your enterprise!

hi anna, i know its been almost 6 mths since u started this venture... but i just wanted to wish you the very very best of luck, and to applaud you for your bravery & your talent. i too hv ideas floating around from shopping, watching tv, looking at others' clothes but never got the guts to do something about it.. you go girl!