Projects on the horizon for Handmade by Caitlin

Well it has been a busy past coupled of months. Lots of Christmas knitting (I still have to finish up two shawls actually, but they are close to being done). Then I sprained my wrist which has lead to slow-going on the knitting front. Still recovering, but I'm picking up speed again. I've just decided to give myself some designated rest time, so I am working minimally at night and you will notice my weekends are open on my calendar. There have also been a nice handful of orders coming in, two of which are very large, so I've definitely been kept busy. I recently signed up for a swap too that I should get working on soon >.> <.<

Once all my orders are completed, I have some plans for items that I want to make for my shop. I have a few pairs of toddler (18 month) sandals that are complete that I want to post soon. I also want to get some ice skates (hockey, figure, and a pair of toddler Chicago Blackhawks skates) made and posted. I am currently working on some Texas Longhorn cleats, and if you've been keeping up I already have Chicago Bears sandals and booties, so I want to get some cleats going soon too. The customizable roller skate listings are still in the works too. Beyond that, I just have some fun ideas for "regular" booties, like a pink bootie with a snowflake, and some pale blue and white conductor stripe booties.

Building up to that, I have been designing a "product catalog" for all my knit/crochet baby items. If you know me in person, please feel free to ask to take a look. Otherwise, I am also planning to convert it to a fancy pdf (or possibly an online viewer), so convo me on etsy or pm here and I can email you the digital version. The catalog contains items you can find in the galleries on my blog, but they are better organized by type and price points.

I also have a collection of jewelry I had made for some craft shows, so they were never posted on my shop. I need to photograph and measure these and then my jewelry selection should increase. I am hoping to find some downtime come spring for some hair pieces as well.

January Custom Orders

Even with my injured wrist, turn around time is still fairly low. I thought my customers might like to see what orders I have on the horizon to help them plan. So far January isn't too busy. Besides these custom orders, I am designing some snowflake booties and plan to get some conductor stripe booties worked up. A few pairs of toddler sandals will also be posted this month, as soon as I get my camera back from my sister so I can upload photos for the listings n_~

Studio Ghibli Swap

It's been a while since my last swap--time to get back into the game! I've been waiting for the Studio Ghibli swap to come back around and am super excited to participate in it. One of our lovely mods is also keeping track of the questions within the swap board, if people are referencing my post for an up-to-date list. Now on to the usual stuff...

Pre-Questionnaire Questions
Official Questionnaire
Check-Ins
Supplementary Questions from the Group
Neat Ghilbi Items Shared by Swappers

Swap Info for Coziable Electronics, etc

As with my clothing/jewelry post, I am choosing to copy over information from my original Ravelry post regarding sizing for electronics that could use covers/cozies. If similar questions about other items pop up, I will update this list to include additional categories.

Swap Info for Clothing/Accessories/Jewelry

Throughout my swaps, a lot of questions regarding size of ______ have popped up. I have been editing the first post that requested a lot of the information with any new size requested since. As a back-up I am copying the information over here, just in case our archived threads have to be purged in the future.