Submit Your Comments
Please enter your comments in the box below and then click the Submit Your Comment button and enter the anti-spam code when prompted. You can edit your comment subsequently. Comments which we regard as irrelevant may be removed without notice.
A very warm welcome to our September 2022 newsletter.
This month we have new patterns from Cottage Garden, Les Petite Croix de Lucie, Nora Corbett and new kits from maia, Luca-S and Satsuma Street
Bothy Threads also have a large new collection so let's get going!
Patterns
For those who are following the Zodiacal Princesses. Pisces is the motif this time.
Nora Corbett has produced another two designs in two new Maia kits from the artwork of the late Terry Harrison. Both are of small coastal towns. Maia are high quality art kits that don't disappoint.
We have some Bothy Threads have released their latest collection with more Wrendale, cushions, stylised shoes, Christmas and lots more. See the catalogue and the kits we have picked initially.
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!
This month we have new patterns from Cottage Garden, Les Petite Croix de Lucie, Nora Corbett and new kits from maia, Luca-S and Satsuma Street
Bothy Threads also have a large new collection so let's get going!
Patterns
For those who are following the Zodiacal Princesses. Pisces is the motif this time.
Nora Corbett has produced another two designs in two new Maia kits from the artwork of the late Terry Harrison. Both are of small coastal towns. Maia are high quality art kits that don't disappoint.
We have some Bothy Threads have released their latest collection with more Wrendale, cushions, stylised shoes, Christmas and lots more. See the catalogue and the kits we have picked initially.
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!
Please wait ...
