Today is another special Holiday edition of Clarrisa’s Corner! Can you believe it’s almost Christmas?! This week, Clarrisa is teaching us how to create reusable and customizable gift card holders and tags! Let’s download our instructions and designs below!

Instructions for gift tags and gift card holders:

Cut files:

Designs:

Don’t forget to join Clarrisa for her LIVE tutorial, today, on our Floriani Embroidery Facebook Page, at 4:30 PM EST! You can also re-watch the tutorial at a later time. We hope to see you on the live today!

If you make this project, please share it on our Facebook Group! We’d love to see your work:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/florianiembroidery

Are you ready to learn how to take your foil and use it to create festive décor? Follow the blog below to download your designs and instructions for Cookie’s LIVE tomorrow!

Download your printable instructions below:

Download your design files below:

On a brand-new episode of Coffee with Cookie, we will learn how to create foiled snowflakes, stars, and more!

Join us on our Embellish Embroidery page on December 15th at 4:30 PM EST when Cookie Gaynor goes LIVE! https://www.facebook.com/RNKEmbellish

Don’t forget to join our Embellish Embroidery Group to share your creations after the live! https://www.facebook.com/groups/embellishrnk

It’s time for another state flower! We only have a few weeks left of this fun series, and we hope that you have created beautiful projects with the designs! Who’s ready for today’s new project?!

Download your headwrap instructions in the file below:

Next, let’s download today’s apple blossom design:

https://rnk-floriani.com/downloads/12-10-21-AR.zip

You can view just the past designs in the link below:

https://rnk-floriani.com/across-america.php

If you want to see all of the beautiful creations using out Floriani designs and products, head on over to Facebook and join our group!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/florianiembroidery

And now it’s time for the fun facts of the blog! We love doing fun facts about each state to give you a little piece of inspiration in your sewing room!

Fun Facts about Arkansas:

1. Mountain View is home to one of the largest producers of handmade dulcimers in the world.

2. Clark Bluff overlooking the St. Francis River contains chalk to supply the nation for years.

3. The Magnet Cove region claims to contain 102 varieties of minerals.

4. Sam Walton founded his Wal-Mart stores in Bentonville.

5. Pine Bluff is known as the world center of archery bow production.

6. Little River County Courthouse is world famous for it’s Christmas lights display.

7. The South Arkansas vine ripe pink tomato is the official state fruit and blossom. It was designated in 1987.

8. 47 hot springs flow from the southwestern slope of Hot Springs Mountain, at an average temperature of 143 F.

9. The honeybee is the official state insect. It was officially designated in 1973.

10. Milk is the official state beverage. It was designated in 1985.

We hope you love creating this apple blossom head wrap, and we can’t wait to see what else your creating this weekend on our Floriani Embroidery Facebook Group! Until next time, Happy Sewing and Happy Creating Everyone!

Tomorrow is a new episode of Clarrisa’s Corner, and she has three fun projects for you to make and give as gifts to your pets! Are you ready to create?!

Clarrisa’s Corner will be on Thursday at 4:30 PM EST! This week, she is teaching us how to create a cat cave, a collar, and a hanger for your leash or collar!

Download your printable instructions for your Cat Cave:

Download your printable instructions for your Collar:

Download your printable instructions for your Hanger:

Here’s an exclusive True Type Font for Cat Cave Tutorial:

Here’s an exclusive video on how to create your Hoop Hanger:

Download your Hoop Hanger Design below:

We can’t wait to see you tomorrow for the LIVE tutorial on our Floriani Embroidery Facebook Page at 4:30 PM EST! Follow the link below to view the LIVE:

https://www.facebook.com/FlorianiEmbroidery

How is it already December? It seems like yesterday it was January and we just launched our Floriani State Flowers – Sketching Across America collection of designs! With only a few more weeks to go, we want to see what you have created with all 50 states’ designs!

First things first, let’s learn how to create an embroidered wooden box:

Next, let’s download today’s design:

https://rnk-floriani.com/friday-designs/12-3-21-KY.zip

You can view just the past designs in the link below:

https://rnk-floriani.com/across-america.php

If you want to see all of the beautiful creations using out Floriani designs and products, head on over to Facebook and join our group!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/florianiembroidery

Now it’s time for some fun facts about Kentucky! Who’s ready?!

Fun Facts About Kentucky:

1. More than $6 billion worth of gold is held in the underground vaults of Fort Knox. This is the largest amount of gold stored anywhere in the world.

2. The world’s largest free-swinging bell known as the World Peace Bell is on permanent display in Newport.

3. Middlesboro is the only city in the United States built within a meteor crater.

4. The song “Happy Birthday to You” was the creation of two Louisville sisters in 1893.

5. Thunder Over Louisville is the opening ceremony for the Kentucky Derby Festival and is the world’s largest fireworks display.

6. Cumberland is the only waterfall in the world to regularly display a Moonbow. It is located just southwest of Corbin.

7. Mammoth Cave is the world’s longest cave and was first promoted in 1816, making it the second oldest tourist attraction in the United States. Niagara Falls, New York is first.

8. Cheeseburgers were first served in 1934 at Kaolin’s restaurant in Louisville.

9. The first enamel bathtub was made in Louisville in 1856.

10. The Lost River Cave and Valley Bowling Green includes a cave with the shortest and deepest underground river in the world. It contains the largest cave opening east of the Mississippi.

We hope you love this design and come back next week for another Floriani state flower! Until next time, Happy Sewing and Happy Creating Everyone!

It’s time to create a quick pillow using a kitchen towel on Clarrisa’s Corner! Grab your free project designs, instructions, and information for her LIVE tutorial below!

Download your directions in the file below:

Download your designs in the file below:

We hope you will join Clarrisa for her LIVE tutorial tomorrow, December 2nd, at 4:30 PM EST on our Floriani Embroidery Facebook Page!

Follow the link below to see the LIVE tutorial or re-watch the episode!

https://www.facebook.com/FlorianiEmbroidery

Don’t forget to join our Facebook group and show off what you’ve created or learned on Clarrisa’s Corner:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/florianiembroidery/?multi_permalinks=3105971113005908

Until next time, Happy Sewing and Happy Creating Everyone!

Today is a great day for Coffee with Cookie! We are going to learn how to create easy poinsettia napkins on Cookie’s LIVE tutorial! Download your assets below and follow along!

Download your printable instructions below:

Download your designs in the file below:

Download your extra panel in the file below:

You can follow along on the LIVE tutorial by following the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/RNKEmbellish

You can share your projects that you create from Cookie’s tutorials in the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/embellishrnk

Don’t forget to join us for the LIVE tutorial, TODAY at 4:30 PM EST! You can replay the tutorial if you missed it! See you soon! Happy Sewing and Happy Creating Everyone!

Happy post Thanksgiving! We hope you are cozy in your home, eating lots of leftovers, and maybe even spending time in your sewing room today! It’s time for another state flower release, so let’s get started!

First things first, let’s download our Floriani Dogwood Bag Instructions:

Up next, let’s download the Virginia Dogwood Design:

https://rnk-floriani.com/friday-designs/11-26-21-VA.zip

You can view just the past designs in the link below:

https://rnk-floriani.com/across-america.php

If you want to see all of the beautiful creations using out Floriani designs and products, head on over to Facebook and join our group!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/florianiembroidery

Now it’s time for some fun facts about Virginia, PLUS some fun facts with it being Thanksgiving Weekend!

Fun Facts about Virginia:

1. Bristol is legally two cities but they share the same main street. One in Virginia and one in Tennessee each with its own government and city services.

2. Patrick Henry made his “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech in St. John’s Church in Richmond.

3. The world’s only oyster museum is on Chincoteague Island.

4. Wild Ponies have roamed freely on Assateague Island and Grayson Highlands for centuries.

5. Virginia is the home base for the United States Navy’s Atlantic Fleet.

6. Virginia has had 3 capital cities: Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Richmond.

7. Union Passenger Railway was the first successful electric street railway transit agency. It was formed in 1888 at Richmond.

8. American Greek Life started in Virginia with the founding of Phi Beta Kappa at the College of William and Mary in 1776.

9. Four of the first five presidents were born in Virginia. In fact, Virginia is the birthplace of 8 US presidents altogether!

10. Never flip a coin to decide who is going to pay for coffee. Yes, the coffee coin toss is illegal in the city of Richmond.

And why it’s till the Holiday’s let’s think of a few fun things you can do with your family and friends!

• While your family arrives for your Thanksgiving dinner, create this fun table runner to use every Holiday! https://www.createwithrnk.com/post/loving-hands-table-runner

• Use our monthly Floriani designs and allow your grandchildren or children to color a stitched turkey on white fabric with fabric markers!

• Have your children or grandchildren draw their Thanksgiving portrait on white fabric and use our Photo 2 Stitches software to create their own stitched-out drawing!

• Create custom made placemats for everyone at the table!

Until next time, Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Sewing, and Happy Creating Everyone!

With the Holiday’s around the corner, let’s make this weeks’ state flower a little Holly Jolly! This week, we are celebrating the great state of Louisiana! You already know the fun facts will be interesting! Follow the blog below for your free design and project instructions!

Download your printable instructions below for the Louisiana Magnolia Ornament:

Download today’s design in the link below:

https://rnk-floriani.com/friday-designs/11-19-21-LA.zip

You can view just the past designs in the link below:

https://rnk-floriani.com/across-america.php

Of course, what’s a Floriani Embroidery State Flower blog without the fun facts that go with it?! Let’s go!!

Fun Facts About Louisiana:

1. Rayne is known as the “The Frog Capital of the World”.

2. Winnsboro, the “Stars and Stripes Capital of Louisiana”, is one of the most patriotic cities in America. On Memorial Day, July 4th, Veteran’s Day, Labor Day, and other special occasions, approximately 350 American flags fly proudly along highway 15.

3. The Saint Charles streetcar line in New Orleans and the San Francisco, California cable cars are the nation’s only mobile national monuments

4. In Louisiana, biting someone with your natural teeth is considered a simple assault, but biting someone with your false teeth is considered an aggravated assault.

5. New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz.

6. In 1803, Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States by purchasing the Louisiana Territory—828,000 square miles of land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains—from France.

7. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, connecting New Orleans to Mandeville, is the longest bridge over water in the world. It is 24 miles long.

8. The Saints’ Mercedes-Benz Superdome is the largest steel-constructed room unobstructed by posts in the world.

9. This is the largest river basin in the nation with over one million acres of bottomland hardwood forest, swamps, black water lakes, and bayous. It stretches for 140 miles from around Simmesport, Louisiana, to all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico.

10. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. whose legal system is based off that of the Civil Code established by the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804. In 1812, four years from Louisiana became a state, the French and Spanish colony adapted a portion of these codes that are known today as the “Napoleonic Code,” which have a more direct interpretation of the law when compared to the other 49 states.

Don’t forget to join our fun Facebook Group and share your creations:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/florianiembroidery/

On our Facebook Group, you will see amazing examples of people creating unique projects with our state flowers like the example below!

Until next time, Happy Sewing and Happy Creating Everyone!

Tomorrow is another day of Clarrisa’s Corner! This entire month, we are creating easy gifts to give to your friends and family this Holiday Season! Let’s create towel toppers!

First things first, download your instructions in the file below:

Download your designs in the file below:

Don’t forget to join us for this brand-new episode of Clarrisa’s Corner at 4:30 PM EST on Thursday, November 17th on our Facebook Page! Follow the link below to watch the tutorial LIVE, tomorrow!