Hello, friends of Needlework. Hope you are all doing well in your homes and in your different businesses from needlework or craftwork. Well, this week has not been easy with me and my working knitting team as we keep having many customers. I believe we are giving our best to our customers through more knowledge I am acquiring and sharing with my team through #NeedleworkMonday and that of #Needlework with the help of #Hive. I am happy that I am part of this community.
Let me tell you some things in business, despite how neat and fine your knitted or crocheted work may look to your customers. One day one must tell you to your face and that of your team that you don’t know what you are doing or working for people.
I and my team just encountered a stubborn customer today. Actually, he gave us a slippers knitting work to do for the wife yesterday but we couldn’t finish the work that same yesterday because of many customers demand on knitting shoemaking work.
He came to our office branch today and discovered that we didn’t finish the work yesterday. He started shouting that we don’t know what I and my team are doing. He also said that I and my team came out from nowhere and started working for people but the funniest part of it is that he never knew that I and some of my team workers graduated from the University not until when approached him and started talking sense into him. He was even the one that asked me if I am a graduate and I said yes and he told us that he was really sorry for insulting my team.
My happiness is that today we finished the work for the customer but we removed some money from the price we negotiated before to make him happy and to maintain the business relationship.
Well, I encourage every needle, craft, or hand worker should learn how to approach his/her customers whether right or wrong because if you lose any of them, it may spoil the image of your company or work. So never give a problem to happen between you and your customer.
Some of the materials we used for the work:
Yarn is a kind of thread used for knitting or crocheting handwork or needlework like shoes, sandals, slippers, bags, and every other creative work of #art. Yarn is one of the best materials I prefer using for knitting shoes and slippers for my customers because it material can last without water damaging it so fast.
A yarn pin and needle is a kind of tiny iron used for knitting and crocheting shoes, sandals, slippers, bags, and many other things that keep life moving and happy.
Sole and Leather is any kind of material in a leather form but in a ticker form with different designs to be used for shoes, and slippers made by a shoemaker. The leather is always lighter than the sole and the leather is used to be gummed on top of the sole to make it neater and stronger.
Scissors are used to cut the leather into the size of the sole which must be in line with the size measurement of the customer.
Gum is used in gumming together the sole and the leather together after the knitting or crocheted work has been completed on the leather.
How we fixed the slippers:
We got the sole and the other material ready from the market nearby our office branch and then brought them to the office.
We measured the sole and the leather and then make some drawing sketches before cutting with scissors.
We then knit the yarn with a knitting needle according to the design choice of our customer on the leather.
We used lighter matches to trim the mouth of the knitted place to make the yarn mouth gum together to avoid loss whenever the customer wears it.
We sandpaper the sole and the leather smoothly for some scratch to make the gum hold tightly with the sole and the leather.
We then gum the sole and the leather surface and then place them under the sun for some hours for the gum to dry well.
We then gum the sole and the knitted leather together and then hit the slippers with a light hammer for proper gumming. Then our work was ready for use.
