Halloween seems to be on designers' minds at the moment and we have lots of new patterns this month - more to be added as time allows.
Kits
It's never too early to stitch for Christmas and we have new Letistitch releases just in.
We have two new Lanarte kits. The cat is definitely new but Summertime from the artwork of Dutch Painter Willem Haenraets is a re-release from many years ago and very welcome too.
Bothy Threads will release their Christmas Collection next week with 30 cross stitch and 5 tapestry designs both from their usual contributors: Wrendale Designs, Margaret Sherry and Karen Tye Bentley and from some entirely new artists: Becky Bettesworth, Sharon Turner and Hilary Yafai. We'll post the Bothy catalogue online on Tuesday (10th August) in our online catalogues section.
The Bargain Basement has Zodiac and Birthday months during August. As usual they're at half the original discounted price.
And Finally
This month's title is from the novel Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (US writer 1920-2012):
«One day you discover you are alive.
Explosion! Concussion! Illumination! Delight!
You laugh, you dance around, you shout.
But, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.»
We hope that before this August is out, we'll re-discover that we're alive, and laugh and dance and shout like the boy in the story. Perhaps we can recapture the age of innocence and be amazed again by the novelty and unexpected beauty in the world.
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