Peppermint Stitches

Hi Everyone!

Let me wish you all a very Merry Christmas/Silly Season!  I cannot believe we are already into December - time truly has flown by!

News

At the end of November we added a new staff member to our Peppermint Stitches family -  Marjorie Poole.  Some of you may remember her from when she owned a cross stitch store in Toowong, or when she worked at the Quilters and Embroiderer’s Store.  She has extensive knowledge in needlecraft and patchwork so we are very grateful to her for joining our team!

Two weeks ago we renovated the fabric room.  We removed the tables and boxes of fabric from the center of the room, and  put in  proper shelving for the fabric!  It looks fabulous, the fabric is displayed in a much friendlier way!

Christmas Trading Hours - we will be closing the store on the 24th December at 1pm, and will re-open on Monday 4th of January.

We are currently not updating our online store.  A new store is being prepared to go live in late January, if you are after new stock that is not listed on the website (which is most of the store- eek!) please contact us via email or phone.

Christmas Gift Guide - Stacey’s Top 5 Christmas Gifts for 2009

5. Gift vouchers - the guaranteed way to get what you want!  Our gift vouchers start at $5.00 and are valid for two years.

4. Kaffe Fasset’s new book Quilt Romance - Beautiful quilt patterns made from his stunning 2008 and 2009 fabric lines.  Includes a pattern from an Australian applique designer Kim McLean.

$54

. Rouenneries Layer Cake - One of our best-selling fabric lines of the year!

$77

2. Gingher Scissors - My personal favourites.  We are currently stocking the 2009-2010 series.  Worth every cent!

$62.20

1. Moda Bakeshop’s Sampler Box.  2 1/2″ squares from all of Moda’s Autumn 2009 Collections (due into the store early next year).  There are a lot of  beautiful fabrics in all different styles to drool over! A great way to buy a little of everything!

$57.20

Sale Items

It’s certainly not too late to start your Christmas craft, if it’s not done for 2009 - you can have it finished for 2010…!!

So, for the month of December all Christmas fabric is 25% off!!

Coming in 2010

* New Classes

* Lots of new fabric - we are expecting into the store early next year from Moda; Whimsey, Plume, Freebird, Verna amongst many!

* For our cross stitchers we are running a 2010 Ornament of the Month club from Little House Needleworks.  The first two designs are pictured below.  Contact us for more details on the club.

* New and Improved website - with ALL our stock on the website!

Final Notes

I want to thank all my loyal customers for your business during 2009.  We appreciate every one of you!  So I hope you all have a fantastic festive season, and will look forward to seeing you all soon!

Happy Stitching!

Stacey

Just a brief update to let people know that we will be open on the Ekka show day, Wednesday 12th August from 10am to 2pm.  

We have a class running on the show holiday as well, it is a basic Machine Applique class from 10am to 1pm with Fiona, so if you are interested please email or call us as there are still a couple of spots still available for this fantastic class.

And some good news for our online shoppers, the Secure Socket Layer is back up and running and it is now safe to place orders with credit cards on the secure site.  Thank you to all who have patiently waited, and emailed us to let us know the SSL was down.

Stacey

This is just a quick update to all Peppermint Stitches customers that we are changing our shop hours as of Monday, 3rd August.  We are pleased to annouce that we will be extending trading to include Mondays!

The new shop days and hours are now:

Monday  10am - 5pm

Tuesday 10am - 5pm

Wednesday 10am -5pm

Thursday 10am - 5pm

Friday 10am - 5pm

Saturday 10am - 4pm

Also, you may have noticed the website has undergone a makeover!  We are still in the transition phase, and a couple of links are broken.  I am working on fixing them, as well as implementing a new shopping cart to include patchwork fabrics and wool with the cross stitch supplies.  We are also having issues with our SSL layer, and I am working with my wonderful web tech guy to correct this issue.  If you are wanting to order stock please email us the orders and we will process them manually.

Lastly, we are starting to put out all the new Christmas fabric.  There are some lovely ranges, so if you intend to start any Christmas projects you may want to come in soon, as - dare I say it - Christmas isn’t that far away!!

Happy Stitching!

Stacey

IMPORTANT NEWS:
UPDATE:- 1st July 2008

Great News! The shopping cart is back working.
Also, on the 23rd of May 2008 we will be opening the doors to our new shop front in Brisbane, QLD. Our new shop address is
133 Sylvan Rd
Toowong, QLD 4066
Our new phone number is: (07) 3161 6606

We will be open:
Tuesday - Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm

You won’t miss us, our store is the red shop!
The new store will have more threads, more fabric, and more patterns. We are also now stocking DMC threads, the full range of kreiniks, and Mill Hill beads.
We will be stocking small range of patchwork fabric and pattern range, and gorgeous hand-dyed wool!Beginning in June we will also be running craft circles where you can come along to stitch on your favourite projects and meet other stitchy people!

 So if you are a local Brisbane resident, come visit us soon!!

- Stacey

Here at Peppermint Stitches, we wanted to bring some of the finest needlework fabrics in the world to the Australian market. (Don’t worry, we also ship overseas, and our friends in New Zealand get great shipping deals!).
We are extremely proud to offer some of the finest colours from Sugar Maple Fabrics (Canada), including opalescent and metallic- on a number of different fabrics and counts to suit your cross-stitching and needlework needs.
We are also honoured to offer a Peppermint Stitches exclusive colour! Stacey’s Garden, made especially for us.
All of the fabrics we offer are hand-painted and are stocked from respected manufacturers. You can be sure that all the products you buy from Peppermint Stitches are of the highest quality.
In addition, we also offer beads, specialist threads and patterns to help complete that special crossstitching project.
Don’t have the time to locate the special threads and beads for that Miribilia pattern you have always wanted to do? Don’t worry, because we have also put together kits with everything you need to get going, all you have to do is buy the DMC threads needed (readily available in Australia), pick your favourite colour fabric and you are ready to go!
We are going to be adding to our range continually as we find products that we like, so keep checking back to see what’s new.
If you have any questions that aren’t answered on our site, don’t hesitate to drop us an email (details on the contact us page) and we’ll get back to you quick smart.
Thankyou for visiting Peppermint Stitches, and have fun browsing through our store.
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