New Easter Braid™
There
is a new thread in town, offering stitchers, crafters and fiber artists a
new way to achieve prismatic color and optical effects in their
projects. It's pearl on steroids, pearl hi lustre, Easter grass gone wild…it's color 9032 Easter Braid.
Last year, we introduced translucent Kreinik Easter
Grass™ by specific request from one of the most talented and prolific
needlepoint designers, Meredith Willet of M's Canvashouse (store) and
Elizabeth Turner Designs (needlepoint canvases and finishing). We turned
that Easter Grass into this year's new Easter Braid™.
Kreinik Easter
Braid™ is a bolder version of our classic 032 Pearl color. It brings to
mind the whimsical lightness of soap bubbles and the crystalline color
of snow. At once purple, then green, then pink, then white...it dazzles
in the light to create a color of depth and dimension, which gives you
more visual interest in your handwork or machine embroidery. It’s a
pretty pearl—and more.
One of the most versatile colors we've ever created, Easter
Braid has the chameleon-quality to pick up color around or beneath it.
Use it to intensify color on a painted needlepoint canvas, to blend
subtly into colored cross-stitch fabric, or magnify print on quilt
cottons. We have already heard that fly tyers are raving about the
shimmery color for making irresistible lures. So don't let the name
determine the use; it's not just for "Easter"
designs. When we handed out samples at the recent TNNA needlearts trade
show, needlepoint designers started using it in projects as diverse as
winter, Halloween, Christmas, wedding, baby, Easter, and confection-themed designs.
Choose
from a variety of thread sizes (thread weights) to match your
particular creative technique: needlepoint, cross stitch, knitting,
crochet, weaving, papercrafts, and more. It is available in Kreinik
Blending Filament, Very Fine #4 Braid, Fine #8 Braid, Tapestry #12
Braid, Medium #16 Braid, plus 1/8" Ribbon and 1/16" Ribbon.
For more information on Easter Braid and other Kreinik threads, visit your local needlework shop or www.kreinik.com. We posted pictures of the new Easter Braid on our Flickr site, http://www.flickr.com/photos/
