I almost always buy all my embroidery floss online. And it wasn't until I was in an actual brick and mortar craft shop that I learned about *insert dramatic tune*.... The Book of DMC Flosses. Well it's officially called 'Color card' but I like the title *insert dramatic tune*....The Book of DMC Flosses more. Anyway, if you haven't seen it before: it's a big folder kind of book with all the Mouline (six stranded) DMC flosses, the Light Effects Flosses, Pearl Cottons, Color Variation Flosses and Metallic Pearl Flosses. It has the actual floss in so you can really see what the floss colour is like. Obviously I got very enthousiastic about it and, being the optimistic person that I am, thought it was free. It's not free, it's actually quite expensive. In my local shop it was about 25 euros, which is over 35$! Eventually I bought one for a more reasonable price on Ebay and now I can order floss online and know what colours I'm ordering. :) Still dreaming about owning the whole set of 470 something flosses though...in whole skeins that is, not tiny fragments stuck in a crazy expensive folder.
This week I shall try and do a better job of my Embroidery Stitch Challenge. I'm going to give the Chained Feather Stitch (#5) a go in the next couple of days. Have not even checked my usual little library if it's described in one of the books so I'm not quite sure exactly how challenging it will be.
Thanks to all the peeps who entered the Giveaway so far. You can still enter this one until this Sunday! Have a great weekend all.
OMG! I am so dumb! I have the printed version of the colour card, exactly because it is so friggin' expensive; it never occurred to me to look on eBay!! Gah! I'm gonna digitally run over there once I'm done typing!
ReplyDeleteOh and, I think you will find the stitch in Stitching Borders.. ;-)
So it is! And as I have the left handed version of your book I will use that as my example, thanks for reminding me. :)
ReplyDeleteI think I still paid about 14 or 15 gbp on Ebay but I use it often so I guess it's ok as long as DMC doesn't change the numbers/and or colours for the next 50 years!
Where do you order your floss online?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads-up, I would have done the same thing. Your projects are so cute-keep the pics coming! spierssusan52@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI posted about this giveaway on Facebook! spierssusan52@gmail.com
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ReplyDeleteLove the pattern!!! Crossing fingers... xo Jessica
ReplyDelete@Rosemary thank you, no extra chances to win through extra tweets etc. but I do appreciate it. :)
ReplyDelete@Sarah I'm in the Netherlands and floss generally is quite expensive here. So I order my floss at an Ebay store based in the UK. I have also once ordered in the States in an online store called 123stitch which went fine as well.
I didn't know there was such a thing as a dmc colour card! I much prefer your name for it too. ;-)
ReplyDeleteHad a quick look on ebay - about $A50!!! Yikes!
Wow that is a crazy price!! I wonder why, but I confess I do want one. I may see if my boss can order me one ;o)
ReplyDeleteOh, wow, I had no idea such a book existed!! Talk about embroidery eye candy :).
ReplyDeletei've seen the dmc color card at stores here in the usa, but not the one that has real floss on it. floss is pretty lightweight to ship, maybe sometime we can do a swap for a couple or a few fqs of fabric???
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