New Cozy Late Night Bookshop cross stitch pattern
Yesterday I added my new cross stitch pattern to the store, I’m pretty chuffed with it. It’s my interpretation of a real building and today I have some pics of that building to share – This is Books Upstairs in D’Olier Street Dublin. It is one of my favourite bookstores and that’s me, upstairs in the shop back in 2021, just after the covid lockdowns, you can see I’ve still got a mask there, which I briefly took down for the pic as there was no-one around in the store except for me an my daughter at the time.
Anybody who has been around Dublin will remember them I am sure – they were first opened in 1978 by friends Maurice Earls and Enda O’Doherty. They are now Dublin’s longest surviving independent bookstore and I remember them most from their premises opposite Trinity college from when I first started popping down to Dublin as a free-range teen in the 90’s.
They moved to 17 D’Olier street in 2015 and I can’t tell you how happy I was to read that they have since opened a cafe on the premises – I feel a revisit is completely in order. If you are heading to Dublin anytime soon yourself, be sure to call in, allow a few hours because as well as selling new books they have a second hand section also.
I’ve taken a bit of artistic license and moved the stairs and resized things to make a nice navigable cross stitch pattern and I’m starting my sample today.
Since I’m just a one person store I do find that my stitched samples do not keep up with my pattern designs, but hopefully I can reach a point where most things have at least a part worked sample. I’ve been mulling over an. idea though that If I ran a little scheme where I challenged shoppers with the idea that if they complete their purchased pattern before I complete my sample they would win back the price of the pattern they purchased – what do you think, would that be a fun Idea? I need to think some more about it, but I’d love to populate my store with actual stitched examples and I have only the one pair of hands 
So, get yourselves to Dublin, architectural gems await you!
