Tomorrow could be a fun day at the mail box but it will also probably get a not so fun response from my husband who doesn’t quite understand why I need to have so much stuff being delivered. Men! What he needs is a hobby that requires stuff he doesn’t have already. There is no way I can get this stuff in the house without being noticed. The most likely scenario is that we have to go somewhere tomorrow – we do .. I already know that, and on our way home, he’ll stop at the mail box and it will be stuffed full of packages and he will not be happy. But . . I say . . he’ll get over it.
Here’s the list from Informed Delivery.
That’s seven packages.
- One from Etsy – it’s a piece of goldish brown linen – one piece!
- One from Cross Stitching Supplies – it’s less than 20 skeins of floss.
- One from Colour & Cotton – a subscription to dyed floss. I think it’s 6 skeins. This will just be my second time to get this.
- Four from 123 Stitch. Even these four don’t add up to much. One has 10 skeins of floss; one has about 12 skeins of floss and a piece of Ancient linen. Remember the little piece I did that has blue splotches on the linen? They got more of that in so I ordered a piece of that. Another package has 4 skeins of floss and the last package has one skein of floss.
I think you will agree that all of that adds up to not much $$. With 123 Stitch, sometimes things are in stock, I order them and apparently everyone else is ordering them so by the time they’re fulfilling my order, which is usually the same day, it’s out of stock. I could order 20 skeins of floss and get it in three or four different shipments. The last two packages are parts of older orders that I’ve already received. At least I don’t have to pay shipping since I paid it once on an initial order.
No charts; only two pieces of linen – mostly floss, but still . . a lot of packages.
Joyce says
Any hobby Vince would have would probably require 25 trips to a local store. You would be out of luck, because he would want you to go with him on all those trips. 🙂
Judy Laquidara says
Uggh! I hadn’t thought of that! You’re right. Thanks for that warning.
Deb says
We have 90% of our stuff packed in boxes & in the shed (its 10 x 24, so a large one) as our home is on the market right now. I went out yesterday and commented that I need batting AND backing fabrics for the 4 quilt tops I am working on right now – so I wanted to go to Goodwill to look for fabric/tablecloth/nice sheet for backings and to Wally World to get batting. He offered to help me take down the boxes & stuff to GET TO the boxes I needed. Very nice of him (and I DID get out the backings that are my least favorites to use up in these projects), but I still want to go to Goodwill at least & look around. Get some of the best fabrics that way. Two of the quilts I’m working on have a very large yellow/white checked sheet (high quality & in great shape) that came from there & I used it as sashing/snowballing corners. The first quilt led to the second as I had all those snowballed triangles left over that I turned into another quilt. When I buy online its generally a large order….my last batting order was several hundred dollars, as was the backing fabric order, so those last a long while for me. Your hubby is getting a break with smaller kits arriving!
Judy Laquidara says
I’ve always had too much batting and fabric. This trip we only moved 14 rolls (yes, huge rolls) of batting. When we moved to Texas we moved 20 so while there, I used 6 rolls. Let’s hope I use 6 more some day. Our hobbies do get expensive but they keep us out of trouble, for the most part.