Kreinik encourages you to participate in the
Needle and ThREAD Stitching for Literacy program

WHAT IS IT?
Needle and ThREAD: Stitching for Literacy is a program in which stitchers, crafters, and shops donate handmade bookmarks to local libraries and schools to promote LITERACY. Participants are challenged to create as many bookmarks as they can to touch as many lives as they can.
 
The 2009 Bookmark Challenge runs March 19 - May 7
 
HOW DID IT START?
This program was started a few years ago by needlework designer Jen Funk Weber, who also works in the children's book industry. She combined her two passions into a community project, and word quickly spread. Now the program has participants from all over the world. Articles about the program have appeared in The American Library Association newsletter, the newspaper of hte International Reading Association, Needle Arts magazine, and the publication of The National NeedleArts Association.
 
HOW DO I GET INVOLVED?
• We encourage you to talk to your local needlework store about the program, asking if the shop is involved or organizing the program with your shop.
• If you don't have a local needlework store, visit www.jenfunkweber.comfor links to the Stitching for Literacy program, a blog, lists of participating shops, and more information.
• Need a bookmark pattern to stitch or craft? Check out the patterns in your local needlework store, or click here for additional ideas:

- Papercraft Bookworm Bookmark
http://www.kreinik.com/kshop/product.php?productid=16468&cat=32&page=1

- Plastic Canvas Eagle Bookmark
http://www.kreinik.com/kshop/product.php?productid=17018&cat=160&page=2

- Plastic Canvas American Flag Bookmark
http://www.kreinik.com/kshop/product.php?productid=16260&cat=119&page=1

- Cross Stitch Friendship Bookmark
http://www.kreinik.com/kshop/product.php?productid=981&cat=160&page=2

- Cross Stitch Glowworm Bookmark
http://www.kreinik.com/kshop/product.php?productid=982&cat=160&page=3

- Hardanger Angel Ornament/Bookmark
http://www.kreinik.com/kshop/product.php?productid=259&cat=64&page=1

- Iron-on Brocade Bookmark
http://www.kreinik.com/kshop/product.php?productid=16970&cat=321&page=2

- Iron-on Lighthouse Tag/Bookmark
http://www.kreinik.com/kshop/product.php?productid=16822&cat=321&page=2
 
It's stitching “you can believe in” — and everyone benefits!
• Last year 600+ bookmarks were stitched and donated from 30 states plus Bermuda, UK, Canada, Netherlands, Trinidad/Tobago, and Finland.
• Techniques included cross stitch, Hardanger, paper embroidery, blackwork, canvas work, needlepoint, pulled and drawn thread, bobbin lace, tatting, crochet, knitting, machine embroidery, peyote beading, Bargello, Schwalm, and crewel, to name a few.
 
Get involved today!