Our local department store had a haberdashery section - threads, canvases,
cross stitch kits, frames, tapes, elastic, knitting supplies, etc - which
they closed down about three years ago. Went in there in January and found
they have reopened it on a smaller scale, but combined it with card making
supplies because people are now looking for sewing and embroidery supplies.
Seems card making is more popular here than in the US but beginning to take
off there, and scrapbooking is bigger in the US, but beginning to be more
popular here.
Our local Lidl (cheap German supermarket) has a difference range of all
sorts of stuff on offer each week. A couple of weeks ago it was knitting
yarn, crochet cotton, sewing boxes and assorted packed of sewing threads,
circular knitting needles and sewing machines. It was like a jumble sale -
crowds of women around the bins, passing stuff back to those who couldn't
get to the front, and annoying elderly gents trying to get through with
their shopping trolleys (cart) to do their weekly grocery shop. I was in the
middle of it (the quality of cotton thread may vary, but polyester is
polyester and I've never got the right colour to sew on a button or mend a
hem)! The check-out girls said they'd seen nothing like it and didn't
realise that sewing and knitting were getting so popular.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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