Now available: 13brilliant colors in

Japan #5. Ten are brand newshades. Designers are alreadycommenting: Gorgeous,Very exciting!, Wow on thenew colors, Wonderful, Thecolors are great.

What is a Japan #5?These non-tarnishing, syn-thetic gimps resemble realmetals—but are more readily available, ata more affordable price, and easier to use.Soft and flexible, use them anywhere, fromJapanese embroidery to samplers, needlepoint, ecclesiastical projects and machine embroi-dery. Stitch with Japan #5 or couch it (tack it on the surface) using a thinner thread likeKreinik Japan #1 or Kreinik Cord to get the look of wire art. The smooth finish offersbeautiful sheen plus smooth stitching. New colors are 110J Black Onyx, 170J NaturalPewter, 160J Rustic Gold, 200J Hot Chocolate, 003J Red, 280J Country Blue, 165J Orien-tal Bronze, 216J Native Copper, 245J Bright Magenta, 008J Green.

Versatile thread for many applications• Couch it, stitch, use it for beading. We cross-stitched with one strand on18-count needlepoint canvas, and used two strands in tent stitch on 18-count (the “square” or “faceted” aspect makes the stitches look like buglebeads). We also cross-stitched with it on 14-countAida; use a larger Tap-estry needle and it will glide right through the smaller fabric holes.• Use it to couch Kreinik 3/8" Trim for ornaments, stockings, stand-ups, purses. The couching thread will be invisible as the colors are per-fect matches.

The CS Ladies: Janice & Grizel

Open 8:30 am to 5 pm EST,Monday through Friday

P. 1-800-624-1928 or304-422-8900

F. (304) 428-4326E. orders@kreinik.comA. PO Box 1966, Parkersburg

WV 26102 USAW. www.kreinik.comT. www.twitter.com/kreinikgirl

CS Updates, Spring 09:• 2009 price list is available.• Opening orders must be atleast $100 in product. Reorderminimums must be $50+.• Add-ons must be placed

within 24 hours or they willship as a separate order.• NEW Store Locator onwww.kreinik.com: Go to

http://www.kreinik.com/loca-tor/ to add your store. If youare already on it, check yourlisting and let us know if thereare changes.

Online connections:• Knotes email newslettermeans you have the news first.Sign up by sending your emailto Dena Lenham atdlenham@kreinik.com.

• Kreinik Online Mall:Consumers shopping onkreinik.com are directed to amall of shops that have agreedto fulfill the orders. For info,contact Jim Cargo at Kreinik,phone 1-866-817-8761 oremail jcargo.kreinik@gmail.com

© Copyright 2009. All prices in thisnewsletter subject to change.

New Kreinik Japan Threads

How to buy Japan #5:5m spool blister pack — min 3 spools/color5m spool bulk — min 5/color10m spool blister pack — min 3/color10m spool bulk — min 5/color10m skein bulk — min 5 skein/color50m cone — min 1 cone/color144yd cone — min 1 cone/color Larger cones availableJapan #5 Assortment: 1 (5m) spool of each color

Free Japan Thread educational handout with space to add your shopinfo. Email cs@kreinik.com or call 1-800-354-4255 for a copy.

Customer Service

CARDMAKING

CROSS STITCH

New Remember TheLadies™ designs

Excite your cross-stitch customers with fournew projects in the collectible Remember The

Ladies™ design series: Dream Big, Live Love,Life is a Song, and Love Conquers All. The newdesigns come in full kits with fabric, or as threadkits without fabric. Tip: if you are looking to addsome cross stitch to your shop, choose full kits sothe projects are ready to stitch.

Available with fabric or without fabric

embroidery on paper

We are hearing consumer and designer buzz about combin-ing stitching and card making. Embroidery on cards can

be as elegant, whimsical, or indie as you want it to be. Popularfor years in England, this technique is migrating around theglobe now that papers are inexpensive and available, andstitchers are looking for something different. Stitch with finethreads like Kreinik Cord, Very Fine Braid, Japan #1 or Blend-ing Filament through punched holes. Tools like a punch pen (orTailor’s Awl) and a computer mouse pad can get you started.

Designer Erica Fortgens creates patterns, books and stencilsthat show you how to easily create stunning embroideredcards, tags and other paper projects. The baby themed giftcard above is from the book “Basics of Embroidery on Paper”(Erica Fortgens, www.ericafortgens.nl), and also appears inthe May 2009 issue of Kreinik’s Reflections e-newsletter.

Use thisTailor’s Awlto punchholes

Trend:

SEWING, QUILTING, COSTUMING

“The Kreinik thread advantage is that these threads can go athigher speeds and the sewer does not need to adjust tensions.People hate to sew with metallics, but after they try ours, theyare hooked on the possibilities.”—Doug Kreinik

We hear it often: “I hate metallics for machine embroi-dery...They break too easily and I hate adjusting my ma-

chine.” 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 withmetallics for machine embroidery. Sewers that have sworn offmetallics are now buying boxes of cones. The threads truly makecreative lives easier.CHOOSE FROM:

• Metallized pure silvergimp threads: Paperbase, laminated withsilver, wound arounda nylon core. Anti-microbial, strong, andcan run at speeds of1,200 rpm. Available inbrilliant silver, gold, whitegold and antique gold, on 1000mand 5000m cones.• Fine Twist threadsNylon and polyester. Great strength and shimmering effects.Spread out more than gimps which are round. Run in a machine at800-1000 rpm. Comes in 18 colors, 1000m and 3000m cones.• Fashion Twist threads100% polyester with a laminate of silver. Anti-microbial and en-zyme resistant. Run in a sewing machine at 800-1000 rpm. Avail-able in 12 shades, on 1000m and 3000m cones.

Q: What’s the secret to making metallicswork for me on my sewing machine?A: A quality thread, of course, and the needle: usea 14, 16 or 18 Topstitch needle. You may alsoneed to skip some of your machine’s guides. “Becreative in your threading by using the leastamount of twisting and turning of the threads,”says teacher Elaine Gilmore.

Q: Can I use them on any sewing machine?Y: Yes, on any brand of sewing machine, serger,digital embroidery machine, or long-arm machine.

Q: What is the importance of anti-microbialand enzyme resistant qualities?A: Today textiles can be infused with silver to pre-vent fungus from forming (in Iraq, soldiers wearmilitary clothing containing silver). Enzyme-resis-tance means that because of the silver base, themetallic does not wane if you bleach it.

Q: Care instructions?A: Wash in 104 F, iron on low heat, can be drycleaned. The Fashion Twist can be used withbleach 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, NotionsMarketing 1-800-748-0250.

Download a brochure with more information and colorswatches for our Machine Sewing Threads. Visit theEducation section on www.kreinik.com and click on“Kreinik Machine Sewing Threads.”

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Easier Machine Sewing With Kreinik Threads

Want to make some jaws drop? Stitch your next project—or teachyour customers to stitch—on silk gauze. Silk gauze is a silk

needlepoint canvas available in “normal” to incredibly diminutivesizes like 49-count. Don’t let the word “silk” make you think it istoo expensive; it simply means that silk gauze is a strong, qualitycanvas. It is made of 100% pure silk fibers in an interlock weave.This type of embroidery can be traced back generations, like 1870s lit-

tle-girls’ samplers and 1970s dollhouse decorations. Today, you stitch onsilk gauze to create little masterpieces like jewelry, buttons, dimensionalframed embroidery (think: layers of gauze), and to-scale miniatures.

EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITIES

Kreinik Silk Gauzeis available in:

18-count20-count30-count35-count40-count47-count49-count60-count

• Framed, ready tostitch: 2”x2”, 2.5”x3.5”,3”x5”,4”x4”,4”x6”,5”x7”,8”x10”• Unframed: 1/4-, 1/2-,1-yard increments• Designs in full kits (florals, Christmas, dogs,cats)

NEEDLEPOINT

KNITTING/CROCHET

When and why should you use silk thread?Silk is a strong, beautiful, elegant, historic, andnatural fiber for fine techniques like crossstitch/counted thread, samplers, crazy quilting,Hardanger, needlepoint, beading, crochet,filet crochet, micromacrame, and beadknitting. The colors are richer, the sheen isbetter than cotton or wool, the fiber is strongerthan nylon, and they are much easier to usethan rayon. Kreinik has 3 types of silk thread:

• Kreinik Silk Mori®: a Premium Grade 3A, 6-strand spun silk with a creamy lustre. Perfect for begin-ners. Separate the strands and recombine as needed forvarious stitches.• Kreinik Silk Serica®: a 3-ply twisted filament silk idealfor bead knitting, micromacrame, crochet. • Kreinik Silk Bella™: a finely twisted, thin filament silkfor adding the finest details.

STARTER SETS AVAILABLE • Call for details

See the silk thread colors now—visit EDUCATION: SILKTHREADS on www.kreinik.com.

The ssiillkk tthhrreeaadd difference

Silk Gauze FinishingSilk gauze, because of its diminutive characteristics,

provides a new world of finishing options that are alsoa fraction of the cost of finishing larger needleworkpieces. Look for companies offering jewelry findings,miniature ready-made frames, easels, and ornament frames that are perfect for silk gauze finish-ing. Also search Goodwill and antique stores for truly vintage findings.

High art on a small scale: silk gauze embroidery

Free handout orclass projectyou can use:simply email

cs@kreinik.comand request theteapot silk gauze

pattern.

DrawstringEvening Bag

crocheted withKreinik Silk

Serica and beads.Pattern available

in Freebies onwww.kreinik.com

Reversible knittedbracelet, made withKreinik Silk Sericaand beads (garterstitch). From booklet“Beaded Knits Vol. 1”by Brenda Franklin www.bfdesigns.on.ca

Get cording sales fromsummer picnics andwine festivals

Make fun,colorful

wine glass iden-tifiers with theKreinik CustomCorder. Familyand friends cancord together tomake individualcolor combina-tions. It’s easy toadd charms orbeads too. Kreinik Customcorder with theweight builtinto thehandle

CROSSOVER PRODUCT

Protect jewelry, photos, textiles with Acid-Free Tissue Paper

Instead of harmful plastic bags, old pillow cases, or open-air exposure, store valuable jewelry, photos and textiles

with a protective layer of Acid-Free Tissue Paper.Acid in normal tissue paper can transfer to textiles over

time and cause them to become discolored, brittle, or tar-nished. The specially made Acid-Free Tissue Paper, how-ever, is neutral, unbuffered, and therefore the safest way tostore cotton, wool, silk, linen and metals.

How to order Acid-Free Tissue Paper: Choose pack-aged 6 or 12 (20” x 30”) sheets of Acid-Free Tissue Paperfor hanging on pegs, slats, and gridwall. Also available:bulk packages of 100 sheets.

Safer storage for:

quiltscostumes

needlepointsamplers

embroiderylace

crochetdolls

jewelryphotographs

papers

YYoouuTubingNew videos

on the onlineKreinik Channel:Visit YouTube™ (keyword Kreinik)or the Videossection onkreinik.com tolearn how to use the

Custom Corder, see Kreinikmetallics on long-arm quilting

machines, and more...

Two styles of crosses, a ball ornament,and a hornboard join the charming

Trinkets™ line of Tokens & Trifles™sewing cards. Trinkets™ are 18-count per-forated paper shapes that come solo, without a backer cardand needle (which are included in the Tokens & Trifles™shapes). They make inexpensive, easily finished stitchingprojects for clubs, retreats, guilds, charity projects likeHospice Trees, gifts and personal mementos.

Kreinik distributes all Tokens & Trifles™ and Trinkets™shapes; call or email for a full list and pricing.

new Tokens & Trifles™Sewing Cards

How To: After you cord with colors ofKreinik metallic threads, open the looped

end to insert your knot, size it to your wineglass and tie another knot to secure.

Four

The other day I received a call fromone of our vendors: “We are no

longer going to mail out invoice. Do youwant FAX or e-mail?” In these interest-ing economic times, it is definitely smartto save in areas where new technologyallows savings. In May, we too will

begin sending invoices via FAX or email when possible.Here are the advantages:• Immediate awareness of what has been shipped • The ability to price items before they arrive • Opportunity to pre-sell • Chance to align for payment more quickly

Email, with all of the good and bad, has quickly changedthe market, becoming a necessary form of communication.My daughter, the actress, almost always uses email for hercommunications, along with Twitter, Facebook, YouTube,Blackberry and IM’ing. Communications are changing.Last month Kreinik began placing video streaming onYouTube, covering interesting topics from tradeshows likehow to use the Kreinik Corder. We also began a Twitterservice for the latest yarn, thread and design news.

If you are not “there,” you may want to rethink your op-position to getting connected. The new market demands itand it will not disappear. Shoppers want information be-fore they buy, want instantaneous information as they movefrom shopping locations quickly, and even want to alertother local needle Twitterers of sales or sightings of inter-esting designers or celebs in the yarn and thread world.

To attract the “new thread and yarn junkie,” change iscalled for and everyone has a part to play in attracting newcustomers as well as keeping the tried-and-true customer.

— Doug Kreinik

A FINISHING THOUGHT

Photos below are from the TNNA Columbus show. See you in St. Charles for the Fall Needlearts Market, and at

Fall Quilt Market.

Update on the Consumer ProductSafety Improvement Act

TNNA recently sent a letter outlining details of theCPSIA. If you didn’t receive the letter, contactdkreinik@kreinik.com, CHA, or TNNA for informa-tion. Needlepoint, counted thread and needleworkitems will all be affected if the law remains in effectas passed. Wholesalers, manufacturers, retailers,and consumers will be affected. We urge you tolook into the legislation, contact your lawmakers,and get involved.

New Kreinik Store Locator on www.kreinik.com

The online store locator is one of the mostpopular pages on www.kreinik.com. Makesure you are listed there — or doublecheck your listing for accuracy — by goingto www.kreinik.com and clicking on StoreLocator. Click on “Add new location” or putin your zip code to find your store.