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 just bought a bunch of CXC to try out! I may give Ariadna a try too, it sounds cheaper than what I pay here!
My main worry about CXC is how it holds up after being washed. I haven't used them so I can't vouch but I had no such issues with Ariadna and it was what I started with at first. A lot of the kits local designers assemble also use this brand, if you want them to make it cheaper, so it seems to have proven itself in Eastern Europe at least.
Once my order gets here I'm going to make a quick easy pattern to do a color comparison and a wash test! I'll make a post about it as soon as I'm done! Just gotta wait for the floss to arrive lol
Yay! Science!