Kreinik…can you think what your stitching would be without this wonderful thread? I have been using it pretty much ever since I started stitching way back when. But then it was called Balger and only available in size 16 and blending filament! I know I can’t even remember the last time I didn’t use any of it in one of my pieces. Can you?

I want to acknowledge that these pictures are from Kreinik and weren’t shot with my handy dandy cell phone. Yes 99% of my pictures on the blog now are taken with my cell phone and not my camera!

So what am I getting to, you are wondering? Kreinik is making room for new colors, like these 6 that were introduced in January…but they are also retiring some.

“Kreinik makes anywhere from 2 to 250 colors each in 28 different metallic thread types. That comes out to be…let’s calculate…(250 x 6) + 81 + (103 x 2) + 39 + 88 +…well, that’s lots of colors. That is a lot for a shop to have to stock, and no wonder we keep adding more shelves and re-arranging at the manufacturing plant. It is time to clean up that color list so that the selection stays fresh with new colors (like the six we introduced to retailers last month, coming soon to stores near you!) plus improve production by not making low-demand colors.”

To read the rest of their announcement, it can be found on Kreinik’s blog, where all of the color numbers that fall into these categories are listed. Of course one of these colors is what I used in one of my pieces that I will be teaching at the TNNA Summer Market! but never fear, Kreinik still has this color in stock and it is one of those colors where 250m needs to be orderd, or 25 spools. I will also write the stitch guide with an alternate color.

This color is called Mardi Gras and it falls into that low demand color that is designated a special order color…this got me thinking about my entry into the Stitcherie Games… Hmmm Mardi Gras, samba, a little black cat, Rio, Carnival…

So I stitched my little black cat last night to the clue of Samba.

“AlleyCat thought that she needed a little excitement in her life rather than snoozing on my lap while I am stitching! A boring life I lead she meowed to me. She wanted a night out on the town and I wasn’t about to change her mind. She quickly ran out the door…and there was no stopping her!

Where are you going I asked? she meowed I am off to Rio for Carnaval where I can take part in the Samba Parade! She told me not wait up for her.”