This is the time of year for industry shows there's one in Cologne, one in Birmingham, UK and one in Nashville ,Tennessee and so there will be a lot of new designs, kits and sundries showing up over the next few months.
We have just received kits from Bothy Threads'Spring Collection. There are more cute needle minders and a new range called Full Moon Collection, one for each season as well as more from the usual designers.
If you're interested in Swedish Weaving or Huck Embroidery you might want to check out our friend Katherine Kennedy's latest book: Swedish Weaving Pattern Directory (ISBN 9781800922242) which goes on sale on April 2nd. You can pre-order it at searchpressusa.com.
We've stocked Katherine's Swedish Weaving patterns for many years now and with 100,000 books sold she is the authority on this specialist needlecrafting technique.
The most recent design by Nora Corbett at Mirabilia is February Amethyst Fairy. That finally makes all the months in the series. And why did February take so long? As usual, there will be a delay before we have the embellishment packs! The supply problems with Magnifica beads seem to be rumbling on.
There is some good news though. We will have a delivery of Mirabilia Designs'Nightingale embellishment pack next week (woohoo!). There have been a lot of requests for this and we probably won't have enough to go around the first time but hopefully there will be more to come in the orders we have already placed.
It seems like every month now there are price rises as inflation works its way through the supply chains. DMC have announced another wholesale price increase of about 3% across their floss range from 1st April. We may have to increase our prices for DMC floss after Easter.
Did you know that the phrase "as mad a March hare" was around for several centuries before Lewis Carroll popularised it in Alice in Wonderland. Of course, Disney's Alice in Wonderland made it even more widely used.
If you get to see a hare in the wild nowadays, mad or otherwise, then you're doing very well! They are very well camouflaged and move like lightning so it's maybe not so surprising that they have to jump about a lot to attract the attention of lady hares.
So let us wish you the odd bit of madness to brighten up your March days. You never know if a jumping hare might be round the corner.
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