***Originally published on February 12, 2014***Whoo boy, this has been a long time coming, and you all have been very patient.  You know how when you come in to the shop and ask us for metallic lurex by itself, we tell you it needs to be combined with at least one other strand so that we can wind it onto a cone?  No longer. We have found a new supplier for our lurex, who sells them on much smaller cones — which means that we can sell them to you without having to wind any off, which takes about a million years on our machine because this lurex is so thin (think 14,000+ y...