Remember the old Burger King ad song….”Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce. Special orders don’t upset us…Have it your way, have it your way.” I thought you might be interested to know that we feel the same way at Signature. Although we have our standard items for our single and double point needles we can respond to special requests.
Before I go any further you need to know that these “special” needles are the result of engineering review for feasibility, tear out of set-ups of machines, reprogramming the run of the machines, making the parts, checking the parts and cleaning the parts. I don’t want you to think this is cheap because it just can’t be.
Having said that we DO have customers who pay for special needles. We had the woman in Scotland who had found a very elderly knitter who was willing to teach her the “old way” of knitting with one end of the needle in a bag on the hip—which is the way shepherds knit while watching the flocks. She needed 20 inch needles and we made them for her.
Recently we had a request for some special Size 1 and 2 14” double points and we were able to make these for the customer.
On the other end of the size spectrum we had a customer who wanted TINY needles and we made them for her.
Sometimes we do have to respectfully say, “Sorry we just can’t do that.” For example, we knew we had no chance to successfully make the 36” long small size needles that one customer wanted. Or the customer who wanted needles the size of sewing needles.
So, if you have a special request we would be glad to hear from you. We can’t guarantee that we can do everything, but we will let you know if you can “have it your way”.
April 19th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I found your needles after reading some review of them in the Ravelry website. While looking at the available needles, I noticed you don’t sell circular needles. The stiletto size would be perfect for lace but I would need circular needles to knit some of my projects such as shawls. Does your company intend to add circular needles to it’s inventory? If so, from the comments (again from previously mentioned website) you would certainly make myself and a lot of knitters happy and increase your business.
Thank you,
Kathleen
April 3rd, 2010 at 9:15 pm
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