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  • 03-11-2009 9:22pm
    #1
    emka1984
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭


    Hi there... Anyone knows where I could buy canvas/threads for cross stitching in Dublin?

    I would really appreciate some help! :)

    Many thanks in advance!


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  • #2
    trishw78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,657 ✭✭✭trishw78


    oooo now there's a good question I haven't a clue but I'd like to know as well... have you tried the internet. I didn't see any irish stores *that deal in cross stitch* at the Knit & Stitch show.


  • #3
    emka1984
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭emka1984


    Well, internet is one thing (and no, I haven't tried yet, i was hoping to get a name of a magic shop-like-place ;)), and buying stuff you can actually see and touch is another...

    I am really surprised that there seems to be nothing like that in the area... I am Polish and when back in Poland, I always thought UK and Ireland would be cross stitch heavens... UK might be one, but Ireland doesn't really seem to :( It's a pity, really...


  • #4
    bananabunch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭bananabunch


    There is Inspiring Ideas at the Blanchardstown centre, that's where I get my crafting bits and bobs, they have cross stich kits, threads and fabric. Or you could try ebay


  • #5
    emka1984
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭emka1984


    bananabunch wrote: »
    There is Inspiring Ideas at the Blanchardstown centre, that's where I get my crafting bits and bobs, they have cross stich kits, threads and fabric. Or you could try ebay


    Thanks, I'll give it a try when I have a spare moment to go there! :)


  • #6
    trishw78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,657 ✭✭✭trishw78


    I'm not in Dublin, but the next time I'm up that way, I'll pop out to Blanch


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  • #7
    bananabunch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭bananabunch


    It's not in the main shopping centre, it's in retail park 2, over by tk maxx etc.


  • #8
    Elphaba
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭Elphaba


    Some of the Hickeys stores do the threads and fabric too. They don't have that many charts but I find it best to get the charts online anyway. Glad to see other people enjoying cross stitch. No one else I know does it and although my friends all love the things I make I do sometimes feel like I should be sitting in a rocking chair with a tartan blanket over my legs! :D


  • #9
    emka1984
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭emka1984


    Elphaba wrote: »
    Some of the Hickeys stores do the threads and fabric too. They don't have that many charts but I find it best to get the charts online anyway. Glad to see other people enjoying cross stitch. No one else I know does it and although my friends all love the things I make I do sometimes feel like I should be sitting in a rocking chair with a tartan blanket over my legs! :D


    I've heard about it as well (Hickeys), but the one that my friend had in mind doesn't exist any more, apparently... Do you have any particular ones in mind?

    Charts - I usually find them in the cross stitch magazines, so no problem! :)

    And very true - people like it, but associate it with grannies ;) We'll at least know the tricks by the time we're retired ;)


  • #10
    slarkin123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭slarkin123


    I found that Inspiring Ideas didn't have much of a cross stitch collection. So instead I downloaded the patterns,,(mainly from www.cyberstitchers.com ), then I bought the aida and threads from Woollen Mills in Dublin, 15 euro a yard.


  • #11
    Hot Blonde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭Hot Blonde


    slarkin123 wrote: »
    I found that Inspiring Ideas didn't have much of a cross stitch collection. So instead I downloaded the patterns,,(mainly from www.cyberstitchers.com ), then I bought the aida and threads from Woollen Mills in Dublin, 15 euro a yard.

    Thank you sooo much that web site was so good!! Every web site i went on youhad to buy them :( So thanks :)


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