May 18, 2020

Hi Fellow Stitchers!      

        PLEASE READ AND BE ADVISED ... we are STILL under a mandatory state wide shut down until May 28th. 

• So Your Order Hasn't Arrived Yet .. and we told you it was shipped?   Probably.  Our mail is sent to (and comes to us through) the USPS Distribution Center in Detroit.  The area that has been hit the hardest in our state due to COVID-19.  They are trying to find additional help and part time help as they are way WAY down on employees healthy enough to come into work -some days less than 20 employees are all that are working! It may be taking a few days longer to a week longer to get your shipments because of that.  And remember, once the USPS picks up our outgoing shipments, we are no longer in control of your order.  Please be patient.  
• I "THINK" my shipment of fabric from Mountain Aire MIGHT actually arrive today! Might!!  I've been getting tracking information since April 8h of it being in transit and arriving at one location and then in transit again two weeks later going to another location. It has been sitting in Detroit since the 11th and it looks like it MIGHT be delivered today! If it does (its coming to my home), I'll be in the shop tomorrow cutting up fabrics and getting your orders (those of you waiting since February/March!) ready to be mailed! THEN, and only then - since I don't know 'what all is being shipped' - I can place reorders!
• We CAN do curbside pickups .. you need to call in your order with your credit card information.  We can then fill your order, call you and let you know when it's ready for you to pick up - you cannot come into the shop!
• LouAnn is the ONLY person in the shop during the week and is trying to process orders IN THE ORDER THEY ARE RECEIVED and get them mailed, even if incomplete - she IS able to answer phone calls or respond to those left on the answering machine, but able to do little to no emails at this time.  NO customers are allowed to come into the shop. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding.   Your BEST BET IN ORDERING is to place your order via our Online Catalog ... and put in the COMMENTS section what your additional instructions are.  Email orders will ONLY be read once a week!!   If you order online, please IGNORE the shipping charge - it is a "system generated guesstimate" and we DO reduce it to actual shipping costs.   You CAN CALL US at 810-629-3333 and leave a message on our answering machine - with your name AND your phone number. We will return your call.

• I go into the shop when I can be the ONLY ONE THERE on Saturday and Sunday to open shipments, fill and pack up orders, process them through for mailing, answering emails, etc.etc.
• Debbie is working from home .. updating the catalog and ADDING to the SNT Classics Sale catalog and is now coming in after hours during the week to assist in answering/process emails. 
• I'm doing my best to keep my employees 'employed and with a paycheck' during these trying times. We are currently running about 1 week BEHIND in mailing your orders out to you due to all of this. So please be patient too .. and allow us time to get to your order, get items reordered if we are out of stock and mailed to you!!!

    A HUGE THANK YOU to all who are placing orders - you are helping more than you know to keep my shop in business through these trying times.  I SO APPRECIATE YOU!!!!!

    I try to think of something 'new' to tell you each week, but each day runs into the next and each week seems to be the same and ... I just can't really think of anything.  But ....

so without further delay .. here's what has just arrived at Hoffman Distributing ...

SEE THEM HERE!

and ... click here to see what's NEW at Yarn Tree

and ... click here to see what's NEW at Wichet Imports

WHAT'S NEW IN THE SHOP