Shipment arriving at the end of the week

Well, it looks like my shipment of Sardinian Knotted Embroidery will be arriving on Friday. Because I don’t actually know what time of the day they’ll arrive (and because I already have other things planned that I must do on Friday), I might be able to get started on the mailout that day, but I may have to be stuffing envelopes over the weekend, ready for posting on Monday.

It means that if you’ve pre-ordered your copy, it will be on its way to you very soon. If you haven’t ordered your copy yet, there’s no reason why you can’t order your copy of Sardinian Knotted Embroidery today!

Monday was a public holiday here, as we were celebrating the Queen’s birthday (which isn’t even in June!). I had a lovely day sorting through the photos I took on my research trip, and extracting every bit of embroidery that I photographed. I’ve now printed out all those photos and snippets of photos as reference for designing. It’s a very valuable resource to have!

I’ve been working on a new design for the next book, which has been most enjoyable. I don’t yet have the fabric to stitch on, so now that I’ve finished one design, I’ve moved onto designing yet another one.

In the next few weeks I’ll have to organise everything for the Sydney craft show, which I will again be exhibiting at this year. While the craft show is normally in June at Darling Harbour, since last year’s show they’ve demolished the exhibition buildings to rebuild them. So for the next three years while that is happening, the show will be at Glebe Island. This year, it will be in July, rather than June. It will be on from Wednesday 9th July until Sunday 13th July.

I’m pleased to again be exhibiting, and my plan was always that I would have “Sardinian Knotted Embroidery” ready and here to sell at the show. When you come to the show, you can be sure that I will have cartons of stock of this book, (and all my other ones!) and will be very happy to sign a copy for you. You’ll also be able to see all the stitched models from the book on display.

Because Glebe Island is a little way out from the city centre, the transport options are going to be a little different this year. I’ll hopefully be finding out all about that tomorrow. I do know that one of the options is catching a ferry (boat) to the show, which to me sounds like a lovely way to arrive!

When I know more, I will tell you about the options for getting to and from the show, to come and visit me and buy your autographed copy of my new book!