Ok it’s not the most exciting stitchy mail in the world, but I don’t get to afford things in bulk very often and that’s quite a big wallop of plain white aida that’ll probably last me at least a year!
Since I needed to order this anyway, I also took the chance to grab the last few colours needed for Errol. Just have to get them on floss drops and I’ll be all set! But this brings me to my question…
Our local craft shop sells their skeins for £1.40 ($1.77 per single skein for the US folks). It really really adds up.
I used to buy all my floss online from https://www.enchanted-needle.co.uk which for a long time sold them at £0.69 (nice) and that obviously made a huge difference.
Unfortunately nowadays their pricing has gone up to £0.99 in line with the other big online options, which is still a lot better than £1.40, but when you take postage into account it’s no longer really saving much if anything on small orders.
So, after all that rambling, my question is where are other UK stitchers getting your floss? Is there a trick to finding it at the old prices? Or are we just all completely out of luck?
I use Lakeside Needlecraft, I’ve found that the aida/hoop cost is decent compared to what else I’ve seen so always gone with them!
Thanks for the suggestion! They were always in the 99p range even when Enchanted Needle were suspiciously cheap at 69p so no idea how the latter managed to be so cheap for so long, or how Lakeside have managed to avoid increasing their prices lately! But yeah now that everywhere seems to be about the same price I’m tempted to switch to them just because it looks like it’s easier to bulk order a lot of colours.