Free Quilt Project

This sensational quilt – "Sensational Flowers" by Rita Lynne of Almost Heaven designs — will be featured in the Kreinik booth at Spring Quilt Market this month. If you are a shop owner or designer attending the show, be sure to stop by and check out the unique techniques used on the quilt. We must say, the Kreinik threads look fabulous! Rita used Kreinik Micro Ice Chenille, Fashion Twist, Fine Twist, Medium #16 Braid iron-on, and Very Fine #4 Braid. We will be selling a thread kit and the pattern.

But for now, you can get the pattern for free, because Rita is the featured designer this month (May 2012) on the Fairfield Processing web site. Check it out and download the PDF instructions here: http://www.fairfieldworld.com/pattern/156-sensational-flowers-wall-hanging

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Pat Winter Quilted Make-A-Pen

Love what Pat Winter did with the Kreinik Make-A-Pen. She created a crazy quilt insert to go inside the Kreinik pen. Project instructions available in her Winter Issue of Gatherings online magazine:  Click here to see details.

See the Kreinik metallic threads?!

Click here to visit Make-a-Pen web page.
Get this product through needlework stores or www.kreinik.com.

Makes a great gift. Also memory craft (use scraps from a loved one's closet or sewing chest).

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Hanukah or Chanukah or Hannukah

Hanukah or Chanukah or Hannukah – there are many ways to spell the holiday. This is a fun time of eating greasy food like latkes and fried donuts, having family get-togethers, and of course exchanging gifts. As a special Hanukkah spotlight on the Kreinik web site this year, we partnered with Michele and Renee at the fabulous needlepoint shop Gone Stitching (www.gonestitching.com) to offer new projects featuring Menorah and dreidel designs. The first four projects are stitch guides for painted needlepoint canvases (available through Gone Stitching), brought to gorgeous life with Kreinik silk and metallic threads. Click on this link to see the models and download the stitch guides: http://www.kreinik.com/kshop/home.php?cat=399 .

The 8 Projects of Hanukkah on www.kreinik.com also includes four Stitch-a-Pen projects.  The designs are from Gone Stitching, one from Jonathan Siegel (the renowned graphic designer whose art appears on the redesigned movie poster for Sony’s Taxi Driver) and one from our own Dena Lenham. These projects stitch up so quickly, you have time to order the supplies and stitch them for gifts or for yourself for the holidays this year. My mom, who is in her 90s, stitched a pen project in one evening, She especially liked the pen because it is easy to hold and uses a Parker Pen refill.  The pens are fast and easy projects, all using Kreinik Metallics and/or Kreinik silks on perforated paper. Watch for new and exciting designs this next year. 

Have fun and enjoy the season.

Doug Kreinik

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25 Days of Free Christmas Projects

It truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Yes, it is time for family, friends, food, and free Christmas projects from Kreinik!

Last year's calendar of 25 Days of Christmas Projects on www.kreinik.com was so popular, we brought it back to celebrate this year's season. Handmade gifts mean so much more than generic, mass-produced, mass-marketed, store-bought gifts — and they can save you money, too. With 25 fresh stitching, sewing and crafting ideas on www.kreinik.com, simply run, Rudolph, run to your local needlework store to get anything you may not have on hand. No local needlework store? Buy anything Kreinik from www.kreinikmall.com, or from many other online retailers.

Five new projects will be released each week until we get to 25, so check back often on www.kreinik.com. Merry Christmas!  Click here to see them.

PS - Look for the 8 Days of Hanukkah Projects right here.

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Save The Pumpkins!

Save The Pumpkins!

I don't particularly care for pumpkin carving. It's just too darn messy. Sure you can try to roasting the seeds and making a pie, but at the end of the day you end up with a "one-and-done" decoration. Toss in the fact that in colder climates these darn things are apt to rot on your front step before Ole Hallows Eve even gets here.

What if you can "SAVE" that pumpkin from such invasive carving procedures and use it for both Halloween and Thanksgiving without the colossal mess? Now you have my attention. The following project needs only a few simple items to let you save your pumpkin from unnecessary invasive carving procedures. Oh, and my Jack is waterproof!

You will need:
- A computer to print out a template from the web
- Pen or Magic Marker
- Scissors
- One, 10m spool of Kreinik 1/8" Ribbon in color #054F
- One, 8" x 10" sheet of Kreinik Treasure Tape
- Black-light bulb
- Medium size pumpkin

Directions:
Click here to view and print the instructions for this project. You will need the FREE program Adobe Reader to view and print this document.

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