Walmart 10cent floss

Wow! I'm going to our Wal-Mart here in Central Texas tomorrow morning. I will definitely check this out! Thanks.

Well, it was worth the drive over to Wal-Mart! They had the same price--10 cents each--on the floss here. I stocked up big time. I bought close to 200 skeins. I thanked the cashier for her trouble. I can understand why she wasn't as happy as I was. Does anyone know what is going on with this? I couldn't find anyone in the store who knew anything about it.

I got the same kind of bargain at my Wal-Mart here in Florida. I was told several weeks ago that they would be phasing out the needlework stuff and I guess this is the beginning. So far nothing else was on sale.

Hopefully, the promised A.C.Moore that is supposed to be cominghere, will get here soon.

Lucille

Many of the WM stores are phasing out or cutting back their craft departments and floss is going to go. (Real irony: at my WM, they are clearancing the floss but stocking more preprinted, ready to embroider quilt blocks.)

Another rumor I heard is that they are going to carry Anchor, but the above was what my WM told me.

Guess WM is phasing out a lot of things. We are getting a Michael's soon. Here's hoping they have floss.

The Michaels I have access to, which is a long drive away, does carry the full line of DMC Floss, including a smattering of perle cotton and all DMC specialty threads and fabrics.

We have several Michaels in the area. All of them have floss, but some, that's about all the have. Depends on the manager. One store, literally, the XS section is the width of the DMC bins. A few tubes of fabric, a scanty selection of hoops hanging above. Not even contiguous to that, a few feet of XS kits in a side aisle. Another Michaels devotes a whole aisle to embroidery, including several of the ADP scroll frame combos.

According to a story I just read on MSN, Wal-Mart is phasing out their crafts and fabric departments because they are not very profittable in most areas of the country. Instead, they are putting in party supplies, which apparently is a bigger money-maker. Last I saw, our store here in central Ohio still had a complete crafts and fabric section, but I'll check out the floss price next time I'm there.

Carolyn

I happened to be going to Walmart in Warsaw, Indiana today -- my great-grandniece will be two tomorrow, and I wanted a coloring book. (Couldn't find coloring books at *two* bookshops with children's departments, but Walmart had one. Just one.)

So I checked out the DMC floss. It was, indeed, ten skeins for a dollar. It was also gone -- just an empty rack.

They did, however, have large packages of cheap floss for children who braid bracelets. Not a *lot* of them.

Drat. I forgot to look for tatting shuttles, and scope out the other threads. The local sewing-machine and vacuum-cleaner store sells DMC floss, but I need some coarse variegated crochet cotton.

Pleasant day for a bike ride. When I got back, nothing needed washing but my gloves and that was because I forgot to wash them last time, when I came back soaked in sweat. (I found it amusing, that time, that when I went to put my wet cycling suit in the washer, I found a wet golfing suit.)

Joy Beeson

Email me off list - I have several "little kid" ones that are 90% empty C

After purchasing the floss on Thursday, my husband actually asked me if I got enough. That's probably why we've been married 37 years on Monday.

It happens that his sister is a department manager at WalMart and mentioned that the store really had to fight to keep much of a craft department at all. Many stores are phasing it out and expanding such departments as party supplies.

Naturally, this fueled my fears so I went back Saturday night and got another 350 skeins. I can't believe my husband encouraged it knowing that I have something like 4 complete sets of colors plus extras. I used the scan it yourself aisle so I didn't have to bother a clerk.

It wasn't until after I got home that I remembered that there's a large carton of floss that I brought home after clearing Mom's house and settling the estate. It is somewhere in the middle of her craft supplies (we both quilt, crochet and knit) I haven't yet managed to put away.

Mainly I wanted to alert everyone to the sale. It may be even harder to buy floss locally but it does make me wonder if the brick and mortar small specialty stores will reap the benefits if WalMart stops selling. I wonder what DMC will do to their prices if the lose most of the Walmart account which has to be huge. Moni

Well, the owner of my local LNS just got back from a trip to Vega$, and on the way back, they stopped at a Wal-Mart in Colorado (her & her hubby drove), and they bought $2,700 (that's about 6 of Wal-Mart's plastic bags full) worth of DMC for their shop! She thought it was just that store or maybe a select few, but when she got back, her sister-in-law (and co-owner) had hit the a few of the stores near here as well. They now have enough DMC for their shop to last about a year!

And she said it took almost an hour to ring them all up - and two transactions (apparently the Wal-Mart registers will only do so many items or so many dollars worth for each transaction). Her husband was very patient - as were the cashier. But the manager was very grateful that they had bought out all their DMC stock!

She was sorting it when I went in on Saturday.

While a piece of me says good for the shopkeeper, another piece of me is very unhappy for the locals who now will not be able to tade advantage of the sale price. . . .

Thanks, but all I wanted was "something she can open".

I was much annoyed, while in Walmart, to notice the sidewalk chalk and remember that I'd bought a tub of chalk at a dollar store several years ago, and could have saved the trip. (Oh, well, I needed the exercise, and when she saw the coloring book I'd bought, she shouted "Elmo!") (Her mother hid the crayons and chalk.)

I don't know about the guest of honor, but the party left *me* totally exhausted.

Bringing this back on topic: I have realized that if I want to give her an alphabet book, I'm going to have to make it myself, and I think I can embroider one by Christmas if I do part of the work on the sewing machine.

I was wondering where I could get ten colors of ribbon to number the pages in resistor code when it hit me that instead of embroidering the arabic numerals under the color codes, I could embroider them *on* the color codes -- embroider numerals on appropriate colors of broadcloth, then cut out little squares, sew two together, and applique them to the page.

Now where do I put the Roman numerals? And what color contrasts with black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, and white? (Black, I think, since it won't matter if the zeros don't show.) (Charcoal gray?) (Pink!)

Each page will feature a capital letter cut out of cotton print and applique'd to the twill. Perhaps I'll zig-zag over raw edges; I much prefer the look of turned-under edges with straight-stitch near the fold, but most letters feature corners that are hard to turn neatly -- and I do want to finish by December.

I want to make it possible to open the book flat for washing, which means hand-working at least fifty-eight eyelets. At most twelve stitches per eyelet, but that is going to add up. There isn't going to be all that much wear on the eyelets; perhaps I should just punch them with a fat needle and let it go at that.

Joy Beeson

A different shade of one of them. A lighter blue, a pearl grey, pastel yellow, seafoam green....