I have totally fallen in love with Accentuate metallic thread! I have been working on my daughters birthday invitations for the last month and the chart calls for Kreinik threads and let me tell you, I CRINGED at the thought. I love the way it looks on the fabric, but I absolute HATE to sew with it. It gets caught up, it curls unmercifully, and it's always tangling. Not to mention that back stitching with it has its own nightmare page.
So when I was in one of my "not so favorite" cross stitch shops in town, I was beyond tickled when Linda told me about the Accentuate thread I was quite curious as to how it would hold up. It's a lot thinner than the Kreinik so I was a bit skeptical. I am not sure if you can tell the visual difference in the pictures, but holy cow! It is a HUGE difference!
Not only was the size of the actual thread a noticeable difference, stitching with it was a pure DREAM! It slides into needle easily, it comes in and out of the fabric beautifully a
nd the effect is BREATH TAKING! I even went out and bought some of their blending filament and oh dear Lord, I want to use it on EVERYTHING!
I am not sure if you can see the difference between the two, but in the picture I used the Kreinik thread for the border and then the Accenuate. The "orangier" of the two is the Kreinik. Although I LOVE
the color of the Kreinik, it took me twice as long to stitch as with the Accentuate. Since I have 39 of the little suckers to stitch, I think I will go with the Accentuate and deal with slight difference in color!
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