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!

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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:

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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!

Who’s ready for another episode of Coffee with Cookie?! Join us tomorrow, Wednesday the 17th of November, at 4:30 PM EST, as Cookie teaches us how to create a lovely changeable front pillow panel. She will continue this fun project in December for the Holiday’s too!

Cookie will cover making a changeable front pillow panel in time for Thanksgiving! This project is featuring a ready-made pillow for a stress-free project, highlighting our marking pen, fabric glue, amazing grippy rulers, seam ripper, applique scissors, rotary cutter & mat system, the Embellish Maker Software, buttonholes, and attaching buttons easily by machine. Plus, she will review how to embroider hard to hoop items as a bonus!

The steps that you will learn for this pillow panel can be used for any size pillow, and it is one of the most trendy items on the market!

Download your Embroidery Files Below:

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Download your Instructions Below:

We will see you tomorrow on our Facebook Page for a LIVE tutorial with Cookie Gaynor!

Date: November 17th

Time: 4:30 PM EST

Link to view LIVE: https://www.facebook.com/RNKEmbellish

It’s another wonderful day for a Floriani State Flower! If you haven’t been following this series, head back over to our main blog page and checkout all of the free designs you can download! But for now, let’s get started creating the Mountain Laurel!

First things first, let’s download our printable instructions on how to create a rope trivet:

Next, let’s download today’s free design:

https://rnk-floriani.com/friday-designs/11-12-21-CT.zip

If you just want to see our past designs and not the fun projects or facts that come with our blogs, click the link below:

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

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

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

Now that we are ready to create another beautiful state flower, who’s ready to learn some fun and interesting facts?!

Fun Facts About Connecticut:

1. The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. The New Haven District Telephone Company published it in New Haven in February 1878.

2. In Hartford, you may not, under any circumstances, cross the street walking on your hands!

3. Connecticut is home to the first hamburger (1895), Polaroid camera (1934), helicopter (1939), and color television (1948).

4. In 1937, Connecticut became the first state to issue permanent license plates for cars.

5. Some of the world’s most famous cloth is woven in the Stafford textile mills.

6. Connecticut State insect is the Praying Mantis.

7. In colonial New Haven cut pumpkins were used as guides for haircuts to ensure a round uniform style.

8. The first automobile law was passed by the state of CT in 1901. The speed limit was set at 12 miles per hour.

9. Connecticut is home to the oldest U.S. newspaper still being published: The Hartford Courant, established in 1764.

10. Cattle branding in the United States began in Connecticut when farmers were required by law to mark all of their pigs.

That’s all for this week! Join us next week for another release of our Sketching Across America, Floriani State Flower series! We hope you create beautiful projects with these designs, and cannot wait to see them in our Facebook Group! Until next time, Happy Sewing, and Happy Creating Everyone!

What a beautiful and cold day here in Tennessee to create another Floriani State Flower! Today, we are creating an Arm Caddy with our Rhode Island Blue Violet Design! Are you ready?! Let’s Create!

Download your printable instructions:

Download your Rhode Island state flower design in the link below:

https://rnk-floriani.com/friday-designs/11-5-2021-RI.zip

Download all past designs in the link below or visit our blog page for designs and instructions:

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

www.createwithrnk.com/blog

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

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

Now that we are ready to create another beautiful state flower, who’s ready to learn some fun and interesting facts?!

Fun Facts About Rhode Island:

1. The only nuclear explosion to ever happen in the U.S. outside of a controlled environment happened in Wood River, R.I. in 1964.

2. Mr. Potato Head was named as the official “family-travel ambassador” of Rhode Island in 2000.

3. Newport is home to the country’s oldest continually used library, the Redwood Library.

4. If you’re neighbor gets caught having more than 11 permanent vehicles in front of their house, it’s a misdemeanor.

5. Originally rotated by huge draft horses, the watch hill, R.I. carousel, the flying horse carousel, is the oldest in the country, built in 1850.

6. The state’s full, unabbreviated name, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is the longest state name.

7. Though the sport never grew to huge popularity among Americans, the first American outdoor polo match was held in Rhode Island in 1876.

8. Brown University was named after Rhode Islander Nicholas Brown, one of the key leaders in ratifying the Constitution.

9. Over 400 Rhode Islands can fit inside of Alaska, and almost 4,000 can fit in America.

10. In 1774, Newport became home to the country’s first official circus performance.

We hope you love this design and creating another beautiful state flower! Did you love the fun facts about Rhode Island? It seems like a really fun state! Come back next Friday for another release, and if you’re new here – check out our blog for other free designs! Until next time, Happy Creating and Happy Sewing Everyone!

Today is a new segment of Clarrisa’s Corner! We are learning to make these quick and easy potholder’s that are perfect for the gift giving season! Follow along below!

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Download your pattern below!

All Embroidery Designs:

Checkout a video software tutorial on our Floriani Embroidery Page! Plus, join us for the LIVE, today at 4:30 PM EDT, on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/FlorianiEmbroidery

This week, on a new segment of Coffee with Cookie, we will learn how to create a cozy bowl! It is soup and football season, and there is no better way to eat your warm seasonal dishes than on the couch with your handmade cozy! Scroll below for your free instructions and a BONUS design!

Cozy Embroidery Files:

Template:

Directions:

BONUS SVG DESIGN BELOW:

Don’t forget to join us for the LIVE tutorial on our Embellish Embroidery Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/RNKEmbellish) tomorrow, at 4:30 PM EDT! Until next time, happy sewing and happy creating everyone!