I have had trouble recently with kits from the biggest companies -- Dimensions, Bucilla, janlynn, etc.
I got kits because I was trying to save time. I am trying to make SEVEN birth records for my expected three new great-granddaughters amd their siblings! It is interrupting both Chtistmss gifts for friends and family. I am so crazed that I not only dream of ctoss stitching, but I have been caught dead asleep with my hands in the air, cross stitching. It is kinda like Mickey Mouse in "The Sorceror's Apptentice".
I am sending emails with complaints about their kits. The fact that we love a design so much that we will buy a kit amd throw away all its contents but the design, should be a message to the manufacturers. I will.write because I believe firmly.that they should know what we think. No change will occur if they don't know what bothers their customers. I will also suggest that perhaps three to six months after issuing a kit, they might consider offering the same pattern separately. Their human labor costs to put together the kits are expensive. Salary and benefits are a company's biggest expense.
I hope that at least some of us will.go ahead and write! We can see change!