Shop Selection

Thanks everyone for your input so far on shop selection criteria. As of last night, I was pretty sure I had it nailed down to a brick and mortar shop in Florida whose responses were quite quick, helpful and professional. She seems eager to seal the deal and told me that she’ll ship as soon as I call with an address and credit card number. However, I just got an email this morning that might change my mind. It’s from a brick and mortar shop in northern New Jersey that I actually dealt with before when I was looking for a limited edition WhimZi from Just Nan. I’m waiting to hear back from her on pricing now. If her pricing is close to the shop in Florida, then I’ll probably go with her, based on my previous experience with her.

To respond to a couple of your comments, I do try to see if a local shop (Strawberry Sampler, or Drema at Needlecraft Corner for Just Nan items) has the items in stock or can get them. I had also considered posting a list of the shops for input, like Jenn suggested, but if the shop in New Jersey gives me reasonable pricing, I will go ahead and deal with her. I should have thought to ask her first, but desperation and impatience makes a woman do interesting things. 😉

And Anna, you are just BAD! 😆 Of course, if you were trying to entice me to go further into the rabbit hole, it didn’t quite work. I’ve just gone through several months of her blog archives and can’t find any evidence of her stitching of the square series. She is quite an impressive knitter, though, and all of her baking is making me horribly hungry.

Finally, in response to Outi‘s comment on my “on a roll” post: Thanks for the positive reinforcement! Ha-hah. I know you have to be just as far up to your eyeballs in stash as I am. Which reminds me, I owe you a package. Do you still want need Symmetry IV? Oh, and as for the smilies in the comments, I see what you mean. I have no idea why it displayed that way – truly bizarre. I guess it’s another addition to my big fix list. I swear that by the time I iron out this template, I might as well have created my own! But that’s a project for another day… Oh yeah, and the name of the completely finished Tiny Treasured Diamond is Ruby Heart. I could have sworn I had the name in there somewhere, but I had an issue with accidentally having multiple instances of that post in edit mode and overwrote some changes with others. I’ve now edited the post to add the name.

Edited to add: I just got off of the phone with the woman from the shop in New Jersey, named Where Victoria’s Angels Stitch and placed my order. She’s very pleasant to deal with, as I remember her being from before. Plus, get this, they are running a Superbowl Sale from today through Saturday, so I get a percentage off of my order! Squee! Plus, being a consummate salesperson, she politely asked if I needed the fabrics to go with the kits. Why yes, yes I do, you smart lady you! I’m quite happy now and would definitely recommend this shop to anyone. I really wish I lived closer to them because I would love to visit them in person! From what I have seen and read on their website, they are exactly the kind of brick and mortar store that I would love to own/run someday.