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Greetings and a Happy New Year!
Welcome to our February 2023 newsletter in which we have a few new kits from Heritage Crafts and Permin with more to come soon from Bothy Threads. Plus a re-release of some Nora Corbett designs.
We've also some news on the recent Royal Mail problems that have stopped us sending anything outside the UK.
Kits and Charts
First off, Heritage Crafts have taken to releasing a few kits at a time rather having than a few big splurges. First off the press this year are two Permin is the first of these with many new kits including Birds and Animals, Cushions for Kids, Birth Samplers and much more.
Bothy's new Collection will be released early in February. Bothy are especially popular in the United States and Japan so we hope the overseas shipping problems will be resolved in time for this release. All the new collection will be packaged in their new 'eco-friendly' cardboard packaging.
Because Mill Hill Magnifica glass beads continue to be unavailable, Bella Filipina have started suggesting substitutes in their patterns. Where possible we have changed the embellishment packs accordingly. We don't know if or when Magnifica will be back so maybe other designers will start to specify substitutes.
Mirabilia's most recent design Nightingale sold out very quickly we're very sorry if you were disappointed. We had hoped to have more in stock next week plus more of the embellishment packs in a few weeks but it looks like our suppliers are sold out themselves. Our guess is they're having to do another print run and so it will take a bit longer to replenish stocks.
Mirabilia's Fairy Holiday Collection was introduced in kit form between 2005 and 2007 but has now been reintroduced in pattern-only format.
There are six patterns which work stand-alone or together as a group.
Overseas Shipping Problems
As we're located in Britain, almost everywhere is overseas! The packages we send to North America, Australasia and Japan all go out via a Royal Mail depot at London Heathrow and there was a big IT problem there in the second week of January.
This meant that Royal Mail couldn't send any international parcels. They've been trying to recover ever since and some packages we despatched on the 9th and 10th of January seem to have been processed (but we think the 11th is still waiting in a warehouse). We're waiting until they tell us that the backlog is clear and we can re-start sending international parcels and we hope it won't be too much longer.
We're sorry if your order got caught up in this and we thank you for waiting patiently while Royal Mail have been sorting out this mess.
And Finally
With a decidedly postal theme today we thought we'd take our inspiration from Terry Pratchet's book Going Postal which also features a post office full of undelivered mail.
"See a pin and pick it up and all day long you'll have a pin" - from Going Postal by Terry Pratchet, English author, humourist and satirist (1948 2015)
May we wish you a pleasant and productive February and a Happy Valentine's Day, whether you're frozen in the snows of Connecticut or roasted in the Canberra sun.
Until next time ...
Welcome to our February 2023 newsletter in which we have a few new kits from Heritage Crafts and Permin with more to come soon from Bothy Threads. Plus a re-release of some Nora Corbett designs.
We've also some news on the recent Royal Mail problems that have stopped us sending anything outside the UK.
Kits and Charts
First off, Heritage Crafts have taken to releasing a few kits at a time rather having than a few big splurges. First off the press this year are two Permin is the first of these with many new kits including Birds and Animals, Cushions for Kids, Birth Samplers and much more.
Bothy's new Collection will be released early in February. Bothy are especially popular in the United States and Japan so we hope the overseas shipping problems will be resolved in time for this release. All the new collection will be packaged in their new 'eco-friendly' cardboard packaging.
Because Mill Hill Magnifica glass beads continue to be unavailable, Bella Filipina have started suggesting substitutes in their patterns. Where possible we have changed the embellishment packs accordingly. We don't know if or when Magnifica will be back so maybe other designers will start to specify substitutes.
Mirabilia's most recent design Nightingale sold out very quickly we're very sorry if you were disappointed. We had hoped to have more in stock next week plus more of the embellishment packs in a few weeks but it looks like our suppliers are sold out themselves. Our guess is they're having to do another print run and so it will take a bit longer to replenish stocks.
Mirabilia's Fairy Holiday Collection was introduced in kit form between 2005 and 2007 but has now been reintroduced in pattern-only format.
There are six patterns which work stand-alone or together as a group.
Overseas Shipping Problems
As we're located in Britain, almost everywhere is overseas! The packages we send to North America, Australasia and Japan all go out via a Royal Mail depot at London Heathrow and there was a big IT problem there in the second week of January.
This meant that Royal Mail couldn't send any international parcels. They've been trying to recover ever since and some packages we despatched on the 9th and 10th of January seem to have been processed (but we think the 11th is still waiting in a warehouse). We're waiting until they tell us that the backlog is clear and we can re-start sending international parcels and we hope it won't be too much longer.
We're sorry if your order got caught up in this and we thank you for waiting patiently while Royal Mail have been sorting out this mess.
And Finally
With a decidedly postal theme today we thought we'd take our inspiration from Terry Pratchet's book Going Postal which also features a post office full of undelivered mail.
"See a pin and pick it up and all day long you'll have a pin" - from Going Postal by Terry Pratchet, English author, humourist and satirist (1948 2015)
May we wish you a pleasant and productive February and a Happy Valentine's Day, whether you're frozen in the snows of Connecticut or roasted in the Canberra sun.
Until next time ...
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