Earlier this year, we decided it was time once again to collaborate with Amy Singer, Editor of Knitty®, on the design of new knitting bags and accessories. Yeah, we could've Skyped, but we thought it'd be even more fun to bring Amy out to visit us at our Seattle factory/company headquarters. And to celebrate the occasion, we hosted a knitting party at Metrix Create:Space. People brought their Swifts and showed us how they use them/what they carry in them, knitted, talked, we showed everyone the prototypes we'd been working on over the weekend... and Amy even tried to teach Tom how to knit (that didn't go so well) and Tom showed Amy a couple of things on a sewing machine (that went well).

Here's just one of the prototypes we came up with (a tool pouch):

Read the story of Amy's visit over at the Knitty.com blog -- and learn how you can be entered to win one of the two very last Knitty Swifts available.