All kits on sale, quick shipping & new product photos
Need a last minute gift? All kits are on sale right now, including the popular and very cool Stef Francis embroidery kits. We’re shipping orders very fast - usually in less than 24 hours via Priority Mail, and the mail will be delivered Christmas Eve (Saturday) – yay!
I’m also working on getting some photos up of our new heat distressable fabrics. It’s hard to photograph tissues with lustre and sparkle! But I managed to get a quickie example of Heat Distressable Tissue colored with a Tombow marker and shot with a hot air tool. The tissue is so easy to work with, it takes color like a dream and stays nice and soft after heating – no hard bits! I also have an example of pleated Crystal Spunbonded 17g. I pleated it and dunked it in hot water, then dried it off with a towel. The pleats are crisp and so lovely. I see so many possibilities for this! The Crystal Spunbonded 70g will also hold a crease with a hot water treatment. No photos of Zeelon, yet!
Another reminder: we will be closed beginning Dec. 31 thru mid-January…
Stef Francis Texture Selection, Braided Silk, Chizimi Thread restocks
The colorful Stef Francis Texture Selection skeins and Medium Braided Silk skeins have been restocked. We have also received a new shipment of the very popular Chizimi Shrinking Thread.
Stef Francis Creative Kits & Mulberry Bark Packs restocked
We just updated the site with restocks of the Stef Francis Creative Kits. We have Floral Fantasia (pictured above) which includes hand dyed background fabric, full skeins of space-dyed thread, beads, sequins, mock shisha mirror and embroidered surround, flower templates, wadding, tracing paper, self erasing pen, and metallic thread.
The Indian Sunflower Kit includes colored background fabric, metal foil, Indian lace, silk organza, space-dyed threads, beads and sequins.
The Harlequin Necklace Kit includes dyed silk cocoons and carrier rods, full skeins of dyed threads/yarn, stuffing yarn, beads, sequins, and needles.
All kits include full instructions.
Also restocked are the Stef Francis Experimental Pack – Mulberry Bark. Each pack includes about 3 pieces of dyed, natural and/or bleached mulberry bark in a potluck mix.
BIG Clearance is Bigger!
I’ve been going a little nuts lately adding new items (fun!) and now realize that I over-ordered some things. Great reason for a sale! I just added a bunch of newly discounted goodies to our BIG Clearance page (including the lovely Stef Francis Heavy Rayon Ribbon, and Grungeboard). This will make room for even more great stuff…My goof is your gain!
Quantities are limited!
Thermofax Printing, Mixed Media: New Studio Techniques & DVD, more
Call it Lucky Monday, we have two new long-awaited books:
Mixed Media: New Studio Techniques by Isobel Hall & Maggie Grey comes with free online classes and uses many new mediums and techniques. You will see these new mediums here at MeinkeToy very soon, keep your eyes peeled!
Thermofax Printing by Claire Benn and Leslie Morgan is another Committed to Cloth publication. It details using a thermofax for fabulous results and comes with a 70 minute DVD.
A few other catalog additions:
Stef Francis Dyed Gimp with Gold – this is simply beautiful! Sparkly in a very good way, not overdone.
Oliver Twists Dyed Silk Top has been restocked. No color chart yet, working on it!
Dyed Silk Laps have been restocked. Hurry, they are flying out the door…
We are still working hard on the new site design, getting all the photos up and ready. Hopefully it will be ready soon!
Silk Paper String restock, weirdo shipping fixed & more
Silk Paper String
I love this stuff! It’s a very strong fibrous string that has not been twisted or plied – it’s just long, strong, paper-like silk fiber with serecin. What is serecin? Think of it as the glue that holds silk fibers together in the cocoon. Normally serecin is washed out of silk before it is processed. When it’s left in the fiber, you can mist or lightly wet the fiber, then set it with an iron to make things like instant silk paper. Silk that still has its serecin is commonly known as “gummy silk”, even though it feels dry and not at all gummy. It is typically of a courser nature than silk with the serecin removed.
About our shipping…
I discovered a weird problem with the shipping calculator where sometimes one lightweight item would give a shipping charge of a USPS large flat rate box. That was NOT correct! Please, if you noticed something strange like that, drop us a note so we can fix it. I’m pretty sure it’s fixed now.
More restocks:
Stef Francis Hand Dyed Rayon Chainette Skeins
