I was given some money to spend in the Netherlands and found a shop (online) which sells House of Embroidery hand-dyed perles. I chose some pretty colours (although it's difficult to get an accurate picture on the screen) and today they arrived -- they are lovely!
The only thing I am a little disappointed about is that the one combination (the #8 perles come in sets of three shades) for which I ordered all three accompanying #5 perles turned out to be in real life much more alike than they seemed on the screen, so I now have rather a lot of shades of peach . If anyone would like to try these and has some stash to swap, do PM me
Your stash is almost as pretty to look at as your designs. Just lovely. I can't wait to see what you do with them.
Carole
WIPs
Star Wars Afghan:Chewbaca
HAEDs:
O Kitten Tree
Dancing with the Cat
Everything else "on hold"
2022 Finished: Star Wars Afghan: Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Finn, Rey, Poe, Han Solo,Darth Vader, BB8,Luke Skywalker
Said in the Postman thread I'd take pics of the second half of my House of Embroidery order, and forgot -- but there they all are together, the #5 perle threaded onto wooden rings, the #8 perles on their cards:
Can't wait to see what amazing designs you come up with for those beautiful colors.
Carole
WIPs
Star Wars Afghan:Chewbaca
HAEDs:
O Kitten Tree
Dancing with the Cat
Everything else "on hold"
2022 Finished: Star Wars Afghan: Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Finn, Rey, Poe, Han Solo,Darth Vader, BB8,Luke Skywalker
Some of these have already got a project assigned to them . The muted pink blue lavender combination, which House of Embroidery have called "Granny", will be used in a design called, uhm, Granny Square , and two of the three pale shades on the far right will be used for a Ukrainian piece called Odessa.
. If anyone would like to try these and has some stash to swap, do PM me 
-- but there they all are together, the #5 perle threaded onto wooden rings, the #8 perles on their cards:
Those are gorgeous threads. Have fun with them!