Not enough thread
Hello..I have done this piece once already and would like to do it again. Could you please ask the company to increase the amount of thread they send. This one of many that I've done by this company and have the same problem with them all.
Thank You..
Sandy Waterbury
Posted by: sandyndeano on 03/31/15
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you can find out from the chart what kind of floss the kit use and buy 2 from each to make another one.
Just go on the top where it said customer service and call for it or go on the cart to buy them with your cart. Have fun.
Posted by: miss crossstitc on 03/31/15
They will probably not go for that idea, but cyberstitchers.com has a Candamar conversion chart. You can buy the floss & fabric to stitch a 2nd one.
Posted by: jlhewes on 03/31/15
This company will NOT supply extra thread. You will have to make copies of your chart and your floss list. Cyberstitch.com has conversion charts for almost all brands of floss. Convert your floss and purchase one skein of each color plus the fabric. Good luck!
Posted by: SydneyG on 04/01/15
Are you saying that there is not enough thread to complete the project one time or two times. If there is not enough thread to complete the project once (not that this is anything unusual anymore from the complaints I have been seeing), you should be contacting the company who makes the kit which in this case is Candamar Designs and should be included on your kit information sheet. It seems the kit companies have become renowned for "shorting" the supplies in kits and most people are coming up without enough to finish their projects. I have seriously considered changing my thread to DMC like JLHewes suggested for my larger projects using the Cyberstitchers conversion chart or matching myself from my DMC Card, though I do not feel that when I have bought a kit that I should have to go to this trouble and I should be getting to use what I paid for. I do think the more stitchers complain to the companies making the kits, the better chance we may have that this problem may some day change. If not, we're allowing them to continually short the supplies on products they have been paid well for which should include adequate supplies to finish the project.
Posted by: lbcatlovr001 on 04/01/15
I agree with lbcatlover. If anyone does buy a "kit" and gets "shorted" on floss and lousy floss or too small a fabric, complain to the company that puts these kits together. ECS is just a distributor of the "kits" so they get the kits already packaged.
This is NOT a recent development with the "kits". I was shorted floss YEARS AGO and that was why I stopped buying kits YEARS AGO. What stitchers should do is voice their complaints to the companies and see if they'll start to see the "big picture". If they don't want to see the big picture, then not buying kits will have an impact, maybe besides taking our money, they'll start to not just "hear" us, but to LISTEN.
Posted by: Bermuda on 04/01/15
Bermuda - you're right, those scheming companies would listen to our protest if we boycotted their products. BUT!...as stitchers, it's really hard to pass up a kit we fall in love with. I'm not sure we could do it. - Val
Posted by: valeriesilva on 04/05/15
I agree! I will buy a kit, but ONLY because I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the pattern that comes with the kit AND
I can't find just the pattern to buy it. It seems like a waste of my money, but I RARELY do it. I'll put the
kit fabric in my fabric "stash" but will just throw the floss away since it usually flimsy, not numbered and doesn't have the quality of DMC floss.
Posted by: Bermuda on 04/05/15
I hear you, Bermuda! Sometimes you just have to have that pattern...also, I've received floss (brand X) as gifts at Christmas and birthdays. I keep it on hand for teaching, but would never use it in anything I'm stitching. That much of my time and effort deserves DMC.

But, (there's always a BUT!) since I've been reading everyone's posts, I've realized how much more other people know about cross-stitching than I do. I'm starting to understand that there are some other brands that are good to use. What companies are these, just off the top of your head, and would they be cotton flosses or another fiber? Thank for sharing your expertise! - Val
Posted by: valeriesilva on 04/05/15
Like someone else said go to cyberstitchers.com and get a conversion chart for Candamer floss to DMC. Since you have the pattern it will be easy to make a new project that way. I have switched out floss that has come in kits, but I don't buy kits anymore because I don't like most of the floss they use.
Posted by: syagel on 04/06/15
I brought a needle point from a yard sale by Candamar Designs Inc. it didn’t come with any strings or color codes. The number on the design is 30728.
Posted by: Windsor on 02/08/19