My Internet connection is still mostly down at home, sadly. The phone company is due next Friday. I hope the problem is in the phone lines and they fix it then. The tornado caused some damage here (though not at my house) and since we have voice communication, I'm not a high priority. Sorry!
However, I managed to squeeze in a trip to my LNS Friday and saw several things you probably would enjoy hearing about.
First, are you familiar with ribbon floss? I saw large 100 yard spools of ribbon floss for sale, perfect if you are using a lot of it in one big project or over several smaller pieces. I like ribbon floss a lot and if you do also, see if your shop can order a larger quantity than usual for you. Needlewoman East had spools of white with metallic woven in, purple with metallic and shiny gold. If you are not familiar with ribbon floss, you can see it on the YLI website. Click on Needlework on the left, then on ribbon floss. The large spools don't seem to be on the website.
http://www.ylicorp.com/I also saw two new Leigh round ornament canvases, the ones on 18 count that now come with round rings to hang them from once they are stitched. These were on the pretty aqua green canvas with part of the design realistic and part abstract pattern. They are called the South Seas Dynasty ornament series. You can see them on Leigh's website below. The two in stock at NW East were the palm tree on the beach/zebra stripes and the orchids/red floral fabric pattern. I liked them a lot and wish I'd seen the reclining women. I might have bought one of those! Maybe those were sold already. All of these are very tropical and look like a fun stitch.
http://www.leighdesigns.com/Grp825x.htmlDMC's Stitch-opology game was on display. NW East was taking signups to order sets, but I don't know the cost. Are you familiar with the board game Monopoly? Stitch-opology is based on Monopoly. It has aqua green houses and purple hotels, silver tokens based on stitching motifs, and squares with skeins of threads from DMC and stitch names on them. You can see more about the set on the DMC website.
http://www.dmc-usa.com/majic/pageServer/1l0100028r/en_US/Stitch-opoly.htmlI took some photos of a trunk show from StitchIts for you to see but that has to wait until I can post photographs. These have to be seen to be admired!
More when I am able to post.
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