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Customer Service New Kreinik Japan Threads ow available: 13 brilliant colors in NJapan #5 . Ten are brand new The CS Ladies: Janice & Grizel shades . Designers are already Open 8:30 am to 5 pm EST, commenting: Gorgeous, Monday through Friday Very exciting!, Wow on the new colors, Wonderful, The P. 1-800-624-1928 or 304-422-8900 colors are great . F. (304) 428-4326 What is a Japan #5? E. [email protected] A. PO Box 1966, Parkersburg These non-tarnishing, syn - WV 26102 USA thetic gimps resemble real W. www.kreinik.com metals—but are more readily available, at T. www.twitter.com/kreinikgirl a more affordable price, and easier to use. Soft and flexible, use them anywhere, from CS Updates, Spring 09: Japanese embroidery to samplers, needlepoint, ecclesiastical projects and machine embroi - • 2009 price list is available. • Opening orders must be at dery. Stitch with Japan #5 or couch it (tack it on the surface) using a thinner thread like least $100 in product. Reorder Kreinik Japan #1 or Kreinik Cord to get the look of wire art. The smooth finish offers minimums must be $50+. beautiful sheen plus smooth stitching. New colors are 110J Black Onyx, 170J Natural • Add-ons must be placed within 24 hours or they will Pewter, 160J Rustic Gold, 200J Hot Chocolate, 003J Red, 280J Country Blue, 165J Orien - ship as a separate order . tal Bronze, 216J Native Copper, 245J Bright Magenta, 008J Green . • NEW Store Locator on www.kreinik.com: Go to Versatile thread for many applications http://www.kreinik.com/loca - tor/ to add your store. If you • Couch it, stitch, use it for beading. We cross-stitched with one strand on are already on it, check your 18-count needlepoint canvas, and used two strands in tent stitch on 18- listing and let us know if there count (the “square” or “faceted” aspect makes the stitches look like bugle are changes. beads). We also cross-stitched with it on 14-count Aida; use a larger Tap - Online connections: estry needle and it will glide right through the smaller fabric holes. • Knotes email newsletter • Use it to couch Kreinik 3/8" Trim for ornaments, stockings, stand- means you have the news first. ups, purses. The couching thread will be invisible as the colors are per - Sign up by sending your email fect matches. to Dena Lenham at [email protected]. How to buy Japan #5: • Kreinik Online Mall: 5m spool blister pack — min 3 spools/color Consumers shopping on 5m spool bulk — min 5/color kreinik.com are directed to a 10m spool blister pack — min 3/color mall of shops that have agreed 10m spool bulk — min 5/color to fulfill the orders. For info, 10m skein bulk — min 5 skein/color contact Jim Cargo at Kreinik, 50m cone — min 1 cone/color phone 1-866-817-8761 or 144yd cone — min 1 cone/color Larger cones available email [email protected] Japan #5 Assortment: 1 (5m) spool of each color © Copyright 2009. All prices in this Free Japan Thread educational handout with space to add your shop newsletter subject to change. info. Email [email protected] or call 1-800-354-4255 for a copy. CROSS STITCH New Remember The Ladies™ designs xcite your cross-stitch customers with four new projects in the collectible Remember The ELadies™ design series: Dream Big , Live Love , Life is a Song , and Love Conquers All. The new designs come in full kits with fabric, or as thread kits without fabric. Tip: if you are looking to add some cross stitch to your shop, choose full kits so the projects are ready to stitch. Available with fabric or without fabric CARDMAKING embroidery on paper Trend: e are hearing consumer and designer buzz about combin - ing stitching and card making. Embroidery on cards can Wbe as elegant, whimsical, or indie as you want it to be. Popular for years in England, this technique is migrating around the globe now that papers are inexpensive and available, and stitchers are looking for something different. Stitch with fine threads like Kreinik Cord, Very Fine Braid, Japan #1 or Blend - ing Filament through punched holes. Tools like a punch pen (or Tailor’s Awl) and a computer mouse pad can get you started. Designer Erica Fortgens creates patterns, books and stencils Use this that show you how to easily create stunning embroidered Tailor’s Awl cards, tags and other paper projects. The baby themed gift to punch card above is from the book “Basics of Embroidery on Paper” holes (Erica Fortgens, www.ericafortgens.nl), and also appears in the May 2009 issue of Kreinik’s Reflections e-newsletter. SEWING , Q UILTING , C OSTUMING Easier Machine Sewing With Kreinik Threads “The Kreinik thread advantage is that these threads can go at higher speeds and the sewer does not need to adjust tensions. People hate to sew with metallics, but after they try ours, they are hooked on the possibilities.”—Doug Kreinik e hear it often: “I hate metallics for machine embroi - dery...They break too easily and I hate adjusting my ma - Wchine.” How can something so beautiful cause so much angst? They don’t have to—simply choose a better metallic thread . Kreinik has the thread that will make you fall in love with metallics for machine embroidery. Sewers that have sworn off metallics are now buying boxes of cones. The threads truly make creative lives easier. CHOOSE FROM: • Metallized pure silver gimp threads: Paper Frequently Asked Questions base, laminated with Q: What’s the secret to making metallics silver, wound around work for me on my sewing machine? A: A quality thread, of course, and the needle: use a nylon core. Anti- a 14, 16 or 18 Topstitch needle. You may also microbial, strong, and need to skip some of your machine’s guides. “Be can run at speeds of creative in your threading by using the least 1,200 rpm. Available in amount of twisting and turning of the threads,” brilliant silver, gold, white says teacher Elaine Gilmore. gold and antique gold, on 1000m Q: Can I use them on any sewing machine? and 5000m cones. Y: Yes, on any brand of sewing machine, serger, • Fine Twist threads digital embroidery machine, or long-arm machine. Nylon and polyester. Great strength and shimmering effects. Q: What is the importance of anti-microbial Spread out more than gimps which are round. Run in a machine at and enzyme resistant qualities? A: Today textiles can be infused with silver to pre - 800-1000 rpm. Comes in 18 colors, 1000m and 3000m cones. vent fungus from forming (in Iraq, soldiers wear • Fashion Twist threads military clothing containing silver). Enzyme-resis - 100% polyester with a laminate of silver. Anti-microbial and en - tance means that because of the silver base, the zyme resistant. Run in a sewing machine at 800-1000 rpm. Avail - metallic does not wane if you bleach it. able in 12 shades, on 1000m and 3000m cones. Q: Care instructions? A: Wash in 104 F, iron on low heat, can be dry cleaned. The Fashion Twist can be used with bleach and washed at 122 F. Q: How can I buy these threads? A: Order cones by calling 1-800-624-1928, or con - tact one of our distributors: Checkers 1-800-537- 1060, Gammill 1-800-659-8224, Notions Marketing 1-800-748-0250. Download a brochure with more information and color swatches for our Machine Sewing Threads. Visit the Education section on www.kreinik.com and click on “Kreinik Machine Sewing Threads.” NEEDLEPOINT on a small scale: silk gauze embroidery High art EXPLORE THE ant to make some jaws drop? Stitch your next project—or teach POSSIBILITIES your customers to stitch—on silk gauze. Silk gauze is a silk Wneedlepoint canvas available in “normal” to incredibly diminutive Kreinik Silk Gauze sizes like 49-count. Don’t let the word “silk” make you think it is is available in: too expensive; it simply means that silk gauze is a strong, quality 18-count canvas. It is made of 100% pure silk fibers in an interlock weave. 20-count This type of embroidery can be traced back generations, like 1870s lit - 30-count tle-girls’ samplers and 1970s dollhouse decorations. Today, you stitch on Free handout or 35-count silk gauze to create little masterpieces like jewelry, buttons, dimensional class project 40-count framed embroidery (think: layers of gauze), and to-scale miniatures. you can use : 47-count simply email 49-count [email protected] 60-count and request the Silk Gauze Finishing • Framed, ready to teapot silk gauze stitch: 2”x2”, 2.5”x3.5”, pattern. 3”x5”,4”x4”,4”x6”,5”x7”, Silk gauze, because of its diminutive characteristics, 8”x10” provides a new world of finishing options that are also • Unframed: 1/4-, 1/2-, a fraction of the cost of finishing larger needlework 1-yard increments • Designs in full kits pieces. Look for companies offering jewelry findings, (florals, Christmas, dogs, miniature ready-made frames, easels, and ornament frames that are perfect for silk gauze finish - cats) ing. Also search Goodwill and antique stores for truly vintage findings . NITTING ROCHET The difference K /C silk thread Reversible knitted bracelet, made with When and why should you use silk thread? Kreinik Silk Serica Silk is a strong, beautiful, elegant, historic, and and beads (garter natural fiber for fine techniques like cross stitch). From booklet stitch/counted thread, samplers, crazy quilting, “Beaded Knits Vol. 1” Hardanger, needlepoint, beading, crochet , by Brenda Franklin filet crochet , micromacrame , and bead www.bfdesigns.on.ca knitting .
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