Saturday, 03-10-26 and a follow up

 Good morning, everyone.  Welcome to Saturday.

First of all, big thanks to Nicky  who alerted me to a possible difficulty with the Christmas Wreath I bought yesterday. 

Nicky, you were absolutely right.  When I went into my mailbox, there was another download of the same pattern, far closer to what you described although without the 'Internal - not for customers' bit.  It was significantly different in some places (possibly in other places too, I haven't gone through them both with a fine tooth comb) including the actual construction so, obviously, there's a bit of a blip in whatever software is used to download patterns.
My yarn order had already been processed so I'm 'stuck' with it.  I use inverted commas because 'too much yarn' or 'unnecessary yarn' or even 'yarn I don't need now' don't appear in my vocabulary.  It's an impossibility.  How can you ever have too much yarn (no need to answer this!!!)?  I'll find something to use it up, fear not - in fact, I might make an adapted horizontal version of the wreath that could be used as a table centre decoration.  Then the cotton weight wouldn't matter so much.
We will see.

However - not good really so, in the evening, I fired off a message with a bit of a complaint.  I'm not great at complaining so it was very polite but I did say I wasn't happy with the mistake.
And, to be very fair, within half an hour, on a Friday evening, back came a very sincere apology and an offer to give me any pattern download from the site free.  I chose one and, lo and behold, there it was in my mailbox this morning with another apology and a suggestion that, if I wanted to, she would appreciate any feedback regarding the actual pattern.

This is the one I chose - yes, another Christmas wreath - because I dithered for ages over which one to buy in the first place and I can see lots of other uses for the individual parts of this pattern - decorations for the Christmas tree, little gifts, etc.  It's more child friendly, isn't it?

Yes, not a good thing to happen when you're building a business (and it's obviously not the only mistake, judging by what Nicky said) but I can't fault the follow up customer service so I am still (for now) recommending with a reservation that if you do buy a download pattern, you check carefully and, maybe, wait before buying any yarn - just in case, lol.

So, I will enjoy working on both patterns and, if all works out and if they are well written patterns that work, I am very likely to go back to her site because some of the other designs are just beautiful and you know what I'm like with a crochet project.  I do like a challenge.

(The photo is a screen shot from the site)

Phew - that was a story and a half!!  On to today and I need to get petrol so I checked prices and at the moment it seems like Sainsburys is the cheapest.  What a good excuse!!  I did a shop yesterday in Morisons but never mind, I always love a look round Sainsburys.
Hobbycraft isn't that far away either so why not?  And Longacre.
Oh, dear!!!

When I get home, I will deal with a pile of ironing and I have some meal planning to get finished.  I might even do some gardening, you never know.  Some things need an autumn haircut; not the tomatoes though.  They are still giving generously and there's loads of green ones still coming.  Before I started this, I shoved another bagful in the freezer so cans of chopped tomatoes will NOT be appearing on my shopping lists for months to come.

Right, well, this seems to have gone on and on and on so I will love you and leave you now.   Have a really good Saturday and see you tomorrow.  xx