With the shop being closed next Monday for Anzac Day, it means a short week but I have an opportunity for some professional development of my own, so I’ll be heading off to Hastings for a couple of days and leaving Carol in charge. David & I head to the Bernina Dealer’s meeting in Wellington at the end of next week, and look forward to the launch of a couple of new Bernina/Bernette air-overlockers while we are there.
Stocks of sewing machines are starting to get back to ‘normal’ with a big delivery this week and another drop due at the end of the month.
We have been patiently waiting on a huge shipment from Moda and ByAnnie products (including Soft & Stable batting which I don’t like being without). This shipment is over 8 weeks late, but has now thankfully arrived in Auckland. I hope to have some new fabric to show off to you next week.
I am working on a couple of hand stitching projects which I plan to finish before posting classes for them. With the ongoing success of Wendy William’s BOM ‘Urban Owls’, and the release of ‘The Santa, The Tree, The Turkey & Me’ from Hatched & Patched, I am coming to realise that hand stitching is my real passion, so I want to offer more projects along those lines in the future.
It is always good to support other talented people when they offer to teach classes, so please help me to support them by signing up for the classes on offer in this newsletter. It is becoming necessary to take non refundable deposits for these classes. As you can imagine, it is extremely frustrating when you are paying a guest tutor a fee for their time and anticipate a full class, to be told 24 hours before the class that something else has cropped up, and one is unable to attend. We do put a lot of time and thought in to the classes we offer, and I don’t wish to start charging a cancellation fee like Doctors Surgeries and Hairsalons do for the ‘no-shows’. I really don’t want to grumble and hope you can hear my heart on this matter.
Thank you for your ongoing support and for those of you who continue to ‘Shop Local’. We really do appreciate your custom, and hope to stay in business for a long time because of you!
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