You are in for such a treat when you come to visit the shop. Antoinette and Kelly have totally rearranged the notions corner!!!! I can't begin to tell you how wonderful it looks. Everything is so organized and almost all of the notions are on pegs on the wall. Now you can actually walk into the corner and reach everything. But the past part!!!---you can see everything that we have in the way of notions. All of us have had a moment when we spied something that we had no idea we had. I think that Nutmeg Lodge's notions department is unequaled by any shop in its size group. Having a great variety of notions was one of the things that led me to open the store in the first place. I am so pleased with the way it looks and the ease you will have in shopping from that area.

The other news is the arrival of our perle cotton cabinet. I had been told it would not be here until September so it was sort of like Christmas when it arrived today. Everyone is thrilled with the beauty of this wonderful thread. It is fabulous for punch needled. The size of the thread means you don't have to separate embroidery floss and being on a roll, you can continuously punch without having to rethread a new piece of floss. The other wonderful benefit to this product--it does outstanding embroidery. All of you Baltimore appliquer's will love this thread for that embellishment work on album blocks. The variegated varieties will be wonderful for those feather stitches Elly loves to do around leaves. Check this new product out soon.

We have a number of new blenders on the shelves that have expanded our color choices. We will be putting the fall fabric out within the next few weeks. I will give you more information on that soonl

Also, we have a "gently" used Gem Gold for sale for $150.00. An excellent buy for someone in the need of a nice little machine for classes or retreats. This little gem weighs only 12 pounds. Come in and take a look.

See you all soon, Barbara