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Volume V, Issue 4
December 2004

Flying Threads

The Deadly Duo

 Elly and I are in our glory. A golden opportunity for us to not only clean up the store but also to increase our inventory. We now are together Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for 3 hours each day. Look out Internet and those charge cards are just a smokin’. {We’re all doomed. Doomed.}

Back to the most important people, Elly and myself. {I just feel the love.} Between us, we have organized the store even more. {They actually have, even taking into consideration some of my suggestions!} Lovely new DMC cabinets line the one wall. Now we know which wool colours we don’t have. {Which actually aren’t that many now.} However when I go down on my knees (and not to pray) for those lower-most colours at times I need the customers to help me back up to stand on my feet. "Elly, we need to build a long cabinet for the drawers to sit on. Then you know our famous crates on casters will be under the top of the cabinet holding our extra inventory," I say. Her response is, "What do you mean by we?" Okay it’s just me. {Everyone hide your power tools. She gets an odd gleam in her eye when she thinks of using the circular saw... and she got a new table saw. Maybe I should go live with my friends far, far away.} And then to use some of our navy blue fabric which I only paid $2.00 a metre back in 1998 for curtains to hide the rolling crates. Out comes my handy spiral book, a Dollarama special where I sketch out the required lengths of shelf board. All I ask of Chris is to have Home Depot cut in half a 12" X 96" piece of shelving as I need 2 lengths of 6" X 96". Did I mention that this request came the day before she was flying to Atlanta to help friends move? Was I surprised when I looked in her trunk to find 2 pieces of 12" X 48" pieces of shelving? Back to the Home Depot when she comes back to earth. It could be a while so until then I will still be on my knees.

I am trying to avoid redoing the front window display until I buy a new large white plastic Open/Close sign. Besides, the little bits of white broken plastic look like snow on the dark blue carpet. A bright pink neon sign on a timer would be great. That way no one struggles with the yardstick to flip the flying sign which dangles with only one piece of string. We certainly know how to entertain Upper James. Now if only Elly would agree to iron laundry in the front window. She has been know to arrive for work where pieces of freshly laundered stitching are hanging on the open top DMC drawers.

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What's New

Mirabilia has been as busy as a queen bee in releasing three new charts in the past couple of months. Just last week, her newest fairy-style design Petal Fairy was released, and prior to that she added Archangel and Lilly of the Woods to her collection.

Lavender & Lace’s latest released design is Angel of Dreams. Her gorgeous gown is in shades of ivory and cream that are offset by the recommended Blue Spruce fabric.

The Victoria Sampler has started their newest series, which is an alphabet-inspired set of designs that can be done as individual pieces or as one large wall hanging (with the instructions and dimensions for that method included).

Stoney Creek getting ready to release their newest afghan series -- Hummingbird Trellis -- and we have the Hearthside fabric already in stock and ready to go! It’s available for $84.98. The patterns will become available in the Stoney Creek Magazine starting with the February 2005 issue.

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Do You Ever...

... have those moments of utter frustration when your stitching isn’t going as fast as you’d hoped? Try having a needle for each symbol in your pattern. It will save some time instead of needing to continuously rethread your one needle for every colour change. Though we can’t do much when you run out of a length of colour -- that still needs a rethreading.

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Contact Info

    556 Upper James Street
    Hamilton, ON
    Canada

    Phone: 905.318.8254
    Email: inquiries @ gthreads.com

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Business Hours Memo

  • Monday          10am to 5pm
  • Tuesay           10am to 5pm
  • Wednesday     10am to 5pm
  • Thursday        10am to 5pm
  • Friday             10am to 5 pm
  • Saturday         9:30am to 4pm
  • Sunday           CLOSED

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Holiday Hours Breakdown

  • Friday December 24           10:00am to 2:00pm
  • Saturday December 25             CLOSED
  • Sunday December 26               CLOSED
  • Monday December 27        10:00am to 5:00pm
  • Tuesday December 28        10:00am to 5:00pm
  • Wednesday December 29   10:00am to 5:00pm
  • Thursday December 30       10:00am to 5:00pm
  • Friday December 31           10:00am to 2:00 pm
  • Saturday January 1                    CLOSED
  • Sunday January 2                      CLOSED
Normal hours will resume Monday January 3, 2005.

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Golden Threads' Store Policies

Every successful business has a mission statement. Our’s ( Elly and myself, perhaps even Chris) mission is to stock the unusual charts at the best price. This even means using any resources available (they must be legal) to accomplish our goal.

We are more into store polices. For example:
  1. Laughter is to be present constantly.
  2. Remember that you are woman and can do anything once you are determined.
  3. Experiment with your stitching. To embellish or not. Change the fabric to suit you , not the suggested one. Just lay those flosses on the fabric and let them shout.
  4. No ticke! No laundry. Like I do laundry or dust.
  5. The store is constantly changing -- be it the samples on the walls or the charts in the pine boxes. Sounds like some old charts should be put into the discount bin. Also there will be new fabrics or flosses in addition to the current stock. Remember, we are on auto mail with the major suppliers.
  6. We do mail orders for a small handling fee and postage.
  7. Every New Year’s Eve, start a brand new project. Be prepared with the photocopied chart, all your required flosses, the material of your choice. I also prefer to have by my side a tall glass of white wine where there are more ice cubes than wine to help bring in the new year.
  8. Our gold card is timeless along with the gift certificates.
  9. And last which is the most important policy of Golden Threads — we accept any type of payment (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Interac (debit card), even cash!)**
** Husbands, kids or pets do not constitute payment. And that also includes Canadian Tire or Monopoly money. There is absolutely no negotiation! Mind you, I have had some women try to coerce me into accepting the NO-NOs. {Bad ladies, no stitching!}

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Christmas Presents for You! (It's Sale Time!)

The new multi-coloured Anchor variegated floss -- $1.25 each

Tiny pewter frames -- such as teapots, flowers, and teacups -- 2 for $9.98 (regularly $7.98 each)

PC Stitch v7.0 -- on sale for $59.98 (regularly $67.98)

25% Off all custom-cut material
    ** does not include any fabric already cut and/or reduced
Buy one chart at regular price and get the second for 50% off
    ** both charts must be over $10.00 and the discount is placed on the lower priced item

Sale in effect Monday December 13, 2004 until Friday December 31, 2004.

* Applies only to in-stock items during the course of the sale. Sorry, no rainchecks.

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Upcoming Events

Victoria Sampler Trunk Show
April 21 to May 9, 2005

More information will be included in the next newsletter!

What is a trunk show? It’s a group of models stitched for the designer in order to have a physical representation of the design. In some cases the models put on display are the same as those used in the photographs shown on or packaged with the design.

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