Following on from my last blog where I explained a little about what a Bothy is, I thought I would tell you a bit more about our Bothy! When I started the business in 1992 I was living at home…
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I was going to write a little blog about bothies but I got engrossed and found so much of interest that I thought I’d split it in two! So, this one is about bothies in general and we will have…
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A Brief History Of Lockdowns While we find it astounding that Lockdowns have become necessary in our modern times, until fairly recently most people faced epidemics of one kind or another during their lifetime. Our ancestors knew that the best…
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It might be hard to celebrate New Year in quite the usual way, but we’ll all be glad to wave goodbye to 2020! We can still listen to the pips on the radio, mumble a bit of ‘Auld Lang Syne’…
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I have to say that my heart sinks when I hear the song ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’! Every year at the Christmas evening at my daughters’ school the parents were divided up into the various days and had to…
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When we moved to Cumbria in 2014 we didn’t notice a particular difference in any Christmas traditions. However, on our first Christmas here we were amazed to turn up for work on December 1st to find that the ‘Bothy Elves’…
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Is the end of lockdown in sight? It certainly feels like it is heading that way. Restrictions are starting to ease and many of us are heading back to work – if not still in unusual circumstances. The most important…
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Hello Bothy fans! We hope you are looking forward to a lovely weekend of stitching and relaxation. One of our biggest ranges here at Bothy Threads is our Wrendale collection. We now have 64 designs in this range, with another…
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Here at Bothy Threads we are great believers in crafting being good for the mind and the soul. We have been told so often that being able to cross stitch during this lockdown period has been a great help to…
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Bothy Threads is proud to introduce the latest member of the Bothy Threads family… Simon Taylor-Kielty is the artist behind our new Elly range. Here is a little bit more about the man behind this lovable character… Since 1990, Simon…
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