Custom Knitting at Hobbie's House

Interested in custom knitting?

We've been in the custom knitting [and sewing] business for over 30 years...

long before we opened the doors to Hobbie's House of Wizard Wear.

While our main focus is on custom-made wizard wear, we also receive many requests for special designs totally unrelated to wizard wear.

The "Paid Your Rent?" sweater and scarf combo featured in a well known Boradway show is a perfect example.

Other customers have ordered custom Anime knits, knitwear from movie and book characters, as well as scarves in their own High School, College, University and sports team colors. They have even combined both styles of the Wizard School sweater.

So..how is Hobbie's wizard wear made?

Very carefully! Custom knitting takes time.

We do not compromise on the quality of our knitwear by speeding up the knitting or finishing process involved in making each and every sweater or scarf.

Quality has been our trademark for years but also what our customers anticipate in our products. It is what we demand of ourselves - even if it means re-knitting a piece that just does not look right.

Each sweater and scarf from Hobbie's House of Wizard Wear is custom knit to order - just for you. This allows for customizing beyond the minor adjustments in size and measurements.

Hobbie's wizard wear is not just for costumes!

We hope you take advantage of our free service - to communicate with us and ask any questions about fit, sizing and measurements to ensure a near perfect fit.

It is not quite the same as having us take your measurements in person but we can honestly say that, if given correct measurements, your custom knit sweater will fit as close to perfect as the virtual world will allow.

We are not a Land's End, or L.L. Bean, not even an Eddie Bauer where you can place an order, pay by credit card and have your ready-made sweater or scarf shipped within 24 hours. These retailers carry huge product inventories in a variety of standard sizes.

How is Hobbie's similar to these online retail giants?

When you place a custom knitting order at Hobbie's you also pay by credit card. After hitting the "Checkout" button in the shopping cart, you are re-directed to Paypal where the payment phase of the transaction takes place.

Paypal immediately deducts the purchase price plus shipping cost from your account, just as it would if you were making any other purchase using Paypal or a credit card.

You will receive a receipt from Paypal and an order confirmation email from Hobbie's Store to confirm your purchase. Please print both receipts for your records.

Purchases made through money orders do not receive a confirmation email from Hobbie's Store. Please keep the email with the attached invoice and print a copy of the invoice itself. Each invoice has an assigned number which becomes your "order number".

How is Hobbie's different than a local retail merchant or an L.L. Bean?

Hobbie's does not carry any inventory. Each sweater or scarf is custom knit according to the specifications of the individual purchaser, after the order is placed.

Depending on the volume of incoming orders, your item is shipped according to the posted turn around time.

Turn around time will vary according to the volume of outstanding orders and adjustments made to the calendar accordingly.

Why choose a custom knit sweater or scarf?

Are you looking for a way to add a personal touch to your wizard wear? Customize it!

Custom knitting gives you the freedom to put your *stamp* on any sweater or scarf and make it uniquely yours. You can customize the width, the length, the colors, combine 2 styles...the possibilities are endless.

Here are just a few ways wizards have customized their wizard wear.

A Wizard student from Arizona combined the original sweater style with the colors and materials of the *new style* sweater for a really classy look!

The sweater is knit in the dark charcoal, 100% wool, with dark blue and bronze colored trim. For the "bronze", we selected an incredibly soft, pure alpaca yarn in a rich, tweedy shade.

Another Wizard requested a *skinny* version of the trapped bar scarf. We knit them to be only 7 inches wide instead of the standard 9 inches.

To ward off the winter chill, an Ivy League student requested the standard width, trapped bar scarf but in the school colors! Dark blue and crimson.

Another very special student requested a scarf made in her school colors of blue and grey.

Even the Sports Team swater takes on a totally different look when knit up in the colors of a pro ball team. Here is another idea!

The blue and bronze colors of the Special Edition scarf...used as trim for the original School Sweater.

A subdued and classy look. Sweater and trim in 100% acrylic for total wash and wear...ability.

We hope these custom designs have sparked your imagination. We are working on more special "knits". Hobbie's House is not just for wizard wear.