Stitchtastic: October Newsletter

New Autumn Stitches

Summer is over. Official. Despite a week of rather lovely weather
towards the end of September, it's now turned decidedly chilly and
the heating is on, I'm afraid.

But let's not be downhearted! Autumn means it's time for the
Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace. If you haven't been
to a stitching show before, now's your chance to bag some bargains
and have a good look round at some of the amazing textile work going
on in the UK and elsewhere.

We're right in the middle of preparing for the show, for us the
set up day is one of the hardest-working days of the year! However,
it's great to meet lots of our customers and greet many new ones
too.

So if you can make it down to London, come and see us at stand
F15. As a special treat, if you mention this newsletter, we'll give
you a free gift!

Come and see our designs in the flesh!

Move away from the norm....

Most Stitchtastic customers know we have a huge range of car and
motorbike designs. They know that if they ask for a certain model
from a certain year, chances are we'll have it.

However, what many people don't realise is that we have a large
number of more unusual designs, which range from tractors to quad
bikes, from petrol tankers to refuse trucks, and from milk floats to
taxis.

So I'm just going to highlight a few for you, just in case you'd
like to stitch a present for your neighbour who just happens to be a
go kart champion (we all have to start somewhere!).

Firstly, the milk float design. With less and less milk being
delivered to doorsteps nowadays, milkmen and hghly values by their
customers. So surely yours is worth £27.95 (+ p+p)?

Or perhaps your cabbie husband is impossible to buy for at
Christmas? Plenty of time to stitch our London Cab design for him at
£27.95 (+ p+p). It's a substantial design, measuring 14.2" by 9.7",
but uses only 11 colours so it's a lovely straightforward stitch.

The Go Cart design is fantastic for kids, big or small. It
measures 35cm by 27cm and is also priced at £27.95 (+ p+p). Finally,
we mustn't forget about bus drivers? Ever cheerful, they plough
through the dodgy weather to take us pretty much wherever we want to
go. Now it might be a bit much to stitch this for just any bus
driver, but if you know one in particular, I'm sure he'd appreciate
the Routemaster bus design. Or perhaps stitch it for a bus fan?

Whatever your unusual request, have a look at our caricature
designs as we may well surprise you.
www.stitchtastic.com/catalog/caricature-miscellaneous.aspx is
a good place to start, or have a look at the lorries and vans
section.

Super Fresh Milk

Taxi!

Did you know most Formula 1 drivers start in Go Carts?

The Routemaster bus, sadly missed in London

Featured
Stitchers

This month, Karen contacted me by e-mail to show off her
stitching, which is brilliant!

She has stitched our Splitty camper van design for her cousin,
who was very appreciative being the owner of this exact colour of
van.

Karen is stitching for her husband next, she's completing a
Caterham 7, which I've customised for her in their own car's
colours. Hopefully I can show this to you when Karen has finished
it!

Thanks Karen, it's great to be able to show your lovely stitching
to everybody.

If you'd like to show off your designs, please contact me at
sarah@stitchtastic.com and I'll show off your work next!
Alternatively, have a look at our facebook page,
www.facebook.com/Stitchtastic.

Karen's personalized, signed Splitty camper van.

Facebook Update

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like to join us, have a look at www.facebook.com/Stitchtastic . Come
and click 'Like' to become a Fan, and keep up with all our stitching
antics! You can put your own pictures of our designs that you've
stitched up on the page, or just admire the wonderful work of our
brilliant stitchers.