We have some newly released kits from Luca-S birds, country and Christmas scenes and a playful kitten. The kits are colourful and well designed and the birds have been very popular.
In mid-September Bothy will be releasing a collection of embroidery kits - colour printed designs which use a variety of creative stitches. We think they will be a kind of surface embroidery but we'll get the details nearer the time.
Following a customer request, we ordered some Satsuma Street perforated paper kits. In Jody Rice's colourful style there a set of four for Christmas and another set of four for Halloween.
Magnifica and Kreinik
The manufacture of Magnifica beads hasn't resumed so many of the bead packs for Mirabilia, Nora Corbett and Bella Filipina are not available.
Deliveries of Kreinik #4 braid are still erratic - sometimes we get some, sometimes none!
Postal Strikes As our British readers will know, our postal service is having a few strikes over the next couple of weeks.
We don't have to tell you that this means disruption to the postal service and packages will be delayed, hopefully not by more than a few days.
European Union We are still having problems with delivery in some EU countries mainly those in the west of the bloc. It looks like new and arbitrary rules are being applied by some Customs agencies to imports from the United Kingdom. This has meant delay and disappointment to a few of our customers so we're reviewing the situation.
Bargain Basement There are Anchor and Royal Paris kits in our Bargain Basement for the month of September.
And Finally ...
Our title is from an elegy by John Donne, whose work was ignored for several centuries before making a recent comeback.
"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." - Elegy IX: The Autumnal by John Donne, English write and cleric, 1572-1631
Autumn is a time to look forward. In Donne's time winter was a much more daunting prospect than it is now (although with energy bills skyrocketing the daunt is definitely increasing!). His religion was banned in protestant England at that time so he had much to fear. Despite this he wrote much beautiful poetry.
We have been lucky that we don't have to face the privations that our ancestors had to cope with. So let's count our blessings and make the most of our stitching time!
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