We have new toys in the shop!

The new things in the shop are pretty fun. We have several new books as always. I also know that there will be a whole bunch of new ones coming in over the next week or so. We will be starting to add the Laura J. Perin designs to our store line here in the new few weeks. We are also adding the entire line of Needlepoint Inc. Silk threads. We have several designs that call for it so we decided to move the Silk Mori to the drawers and put the needlepoint silk in that area. We will be the only shop in Colorado Springs that carries that silk.

I know that we offer the other silks in the shop by the strand, such as Thread Gatherer Silk N Colors, Caron Waterlilies, A Ver Au Soie and the Silk Mori. Right now I’m not sure if we will off the Needlepoint silk that way as well. Stay tuned.

I have decided not to do my mystery as a mystery. We will be releasing it some time next year. I’m working on it now and Linda is doing the graphing. Since we are talking about it, I figure she will start work on it shortly. I know she was cleaning up the charts last night while I was working of the later ones. I do believe we will be doing them in 13 separate charts in one package as well as the entire design on one sheet. The size of this is about 26 inches by 26 inches so the single chart of the entire design will be very small. It will only be included to help in placement and to show the entire design overall.

My ladies of the night (Tuesday stitch group) decided that we will be meeting on the 4^th of July to have a lunch Pot Luck. That should be interesting. I’m looking forward to that, but not sure what I will be bringing to this.

The stitcher’s retreat is now official. It has been posted on the Stitcher’s Hideaway website as well as going out in her newsletter. So I better get on the ball. I have a design to hand out to the group that comes for that as a free gift. It will be the entire kit.

Oh and one last thing. The really cool thing we got in the shop this past week is a thing call Tacky BOB (box of beads). It looks like a CD case, with a pretty paper on the top and a foam cushion on the outside bottom to prevent sliding. Inside it has both sides of a sticky tape like stuff that holds the beads and a magnet strip to hold your needle. I got one myself (yes paid retail for it) to try and I love the thing!!! I have been working on those Martina Weber’s and they use so many beads that it has become an issue as to how to easily put them on; well that problem is solved now. I can place some of each color in this Tacky BOB, they stay put and I can place the beads real close to where I am working since I am using a stitching frame.

Okay, when the books come in I’ll try to give a run down on what they are. I also know we are expecting an up-light in the shop this week to try out and some really pretty canvas colors to use on various projects.

I also know we will be offering a whole bunch of new classes and I will post that here as well. Not that any one really reads this, but I am at least I’m making an attempt to get the shop news out there till we get a real web site.

Now I get to go wash a dog. Good thing she gets to air dry for a couple of hours cuz I really do not want to spend the entire day drying her. You just have to love Sheepdogs!