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    Filled with Love Tea Towel to Stitch

    Filled with Love Towel   Add an adorable Filled with Love tea towel design to a blank trimmed tea towel to gift for Valentine’s Day. Start with our Cup of Tea Thread Palette, which includes 10 spools of Sulky Rayon Thread and 6 machine embroidery designs in 3 sizes. Then grab a towel blank (choose one with a colorful border or add your own!) and Sulky Fabri-Solvy for beautiful results.   The Cup of Tea design collection contains all appliqué designs, done in the hoop of your embroidery machine. You’ll need some fabric scraps for the appliqué design portions, so choose solids that coordinate with the thread colors or fabrics…

  • Feeling Lucky T-shirt

    St. Patrick’s Day Lucky T-Shirt Embroidery

    Embroider a Lucky T-Shirt to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day St. Patrick’s Day is a fun holiday to strut your leprechaun self and wear your green. An embroidered lucky T-shirt or hoodie sweatshirt is a quick-and-easy way to add a touch of green to your existing wardrobe, and our new Feeling Lucky machine embroidery collection contains designs that are just perfect. T-SHIRT SUPPLIES Existing or purchased T-shirt (prewashed & dried) Feeling Lucky Machine Embroidery Palette (contains 10 Rayon snap spools & 6 St. Patrick’s Day themed designs in 3 sizes) Soft ‘n Sheer™ Stabilizer Tender Touch™ Stabilizer Organ® size 75/11 Embroidery Needles Sulky KK 2000™ Temporary Spray Adhesive Removable fabric marker…

  • HOW TO EMBROIDER A ROBE

    How to Embroider a Robe – Plush Fleece or Bamboo Knit

    Embroider a Robe for Comfy Lounging in Style Embroider a robe to add a personalized touch. Monograms are great embroidery design choices, as are sleepy-themed designs, such as moons, stars and even music notes. Vintage Celestial Sun & Moon Design from Urban Threads Fantasy Letter E from Urban Threads For plush robes, choose designs with medium to heavy stitch fills, as line-art style designs may get lost in the fabric pile. For knit robes, choose a lighter stitch fill or line-art style design to avoid bulletproof embroideries that don’t move with the fabric. Monograms that have embossed effects (or “knockout” effects) are especially nice on super plush, fleece robes. A…

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  • mini quilt garland with machine embroidery

    Mini Quilt Garland to Embroider & Hang on Display

    No Peeking Mini Quilt Garland Create a mini quilt garland to embroidery and display on a Christmas tree or holiday garland, hanging above the stockings on the mantel. The featured No Peeking design is from the Sulky Santa Sayings machine embroidery collection, and it includes an appliqué gift tag. Use a fun sparkly fabric, solid or fabric with minimal print for the appliqué in the hoop to not compete with the thread work. MINI QUILT GARLAND SUPPLIES Santa Sayings Machine Embroidery Palette Sulky Bobbin Thread (or PolyLite™ Thread in a color to match background fabric) Machine Embroidery Design (featured design from Santa Sayings Machine Embroidery Collection: No Peeking), measuring 4.69”…

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  • Holiday Onesie for Baby - learn how! (1)

    Holiday Onesie to Embroider for Baby

    Holiday Onesie How-Tos Embroider a holiday onesie for a new baby this Christmas. Choose from one of our cute Santa Sayings machine embroidery designs to make it extra special. SUPPLIES FOR HOLIDAY ONESIE Santa Sayings Machine Embroidery Palette Sulky Bobbin Thread (color to match onesie) Machine Embroidery Design (featured design from Santa Sayings Machine Embroidery Collection, included with Palette: Santa’s Sweetie), measuring approx. 4.69” x 4.75” or smaller, depending on size of onesie) Sulky Sticky+™ Stabilizer Sticky+ Slitting Pen Sulky Tender Touch™ Stabilizer Organ® Needles: 75/11 Embroidery Removable Fabric Marker (such as a Frixion highlighter) Pinking shears or scalloped scissors HOOPING ONESIE Load the chosen design onto the machine and…

  • mini hoop place cards

    Mini Hoop Place Cards for the Holidays

    MINI HOOP PLACE CARDS with hand embroidery (or try machine embroidery!) Create personalized place cards for a dinner party or holiday soiree. The mini embroidery hoop used for embroidery remains intact to complete the adorable project. Further embellish the hoop using trims, ribbons, felt motifs or greenery and add a hanging loop to double as an ornament once the meal is complete! HAND EMBROIDERY SUPPLIES Materials listed are enough to create one place card. 3” Mini Embroidery Hoop 12 wt. Cotton Petites™ Blendables® Thread (featured color: Autumn) Sulky Iron-On Transfer Pen (color that matches fabric and/or chosen thread) or Sulky Stick ’n Stitch Stabilizer 5” square (or larger) of fabric…

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  • Festive Towels to Embroider

    Festive Towels with Machine Embroidery for the Holidays

    Festive Towels for the Holidays Make festive towels with machine embroidery to add some festive cheer to your kitchen this holiday season. The following directions are for making your own towel out of fabric. But it’s equally as impressive to add a machine embroidery design to an embroidery blank. Choose one of our Santa Sayings embroidery designs or make six towels to showcase the entire collection and give some away as gifts, complete with your favorite cookie recipe. Finished size: approx. 13 ¼” x 23 ¼” SUPPLIES FOR TOWELS Supplies listed are enough to make one kitchen towel. 50 wt. Cotton Thread (to match towel or trim flange fabric) Santa…

  • Hanukkah Tea Towels Tutorial

    Hanukkah Tea Towels with Embroidery & Trim

    Hanukkah Tea Towels with embroidery & trim Learn how to embroider Hanukkah tea towels trimmed with fabric and fun pom-pom trim. For different holidays, simply swap the embroidery design and fabric colors to suit your kitchen décor. Tea towel blanks make quick and easy work of last-minute gifts, too! HANUKKAH TEA TOWEL SUPPLIES Supplies listed are enough to make 2 tea towels. 2 Tea Towel Embroidery Blanks (or other suitable towel, such as flour sack towels, guest towels or dish towels) Fabri-Solvy™ Stabilizer Sulky Rayon Thread (colors determined by embroidery color sequence chart(s) 60 wt. Bobbin Thread (to match towel) Organ® Needles: size 80/12 Mictotex (choose an Embroidery Needle is…

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  • Zippered Organizer FREE Webcast

    Zippered Organizer with Vinyl Pockets – FREE Webcast!

    How to Make a Zippered Organizer with Vinyl Pockets FREE Webcast with SewCanShe & Sulky! The Twice as Nice Zippered Organizer designed by SewCanShe is a roomy zippered organizer that holds makeup, toiletries, sewing supplies, knitting & crochet tools, and more. Learn how to make it, and add quilting, decorative stitching, machine embroidery or handwork to make one that’s unique to YOU. This project features transparent vinyl pockets to easily view the contents you store inside. Plus, it’s easily customizable with quilting, topstitching and optional machine embroidery. Easy enough for a beginner but fun enough for an expert, this is a great instant-gratification project you can complete in an afternoon’s…

  • FREE MINI QUILT PATTERN

    Love to Sew? Stitch a Mini Quilt & New Designs

    Love to Sew Mini Quilt Pattern Decorate your sewing space with a Love to Sew Mini Quilt showcasing fun spools. The spools are pieced with fun sewing-themed fabrics, and then assembled into a larger thread spool motif. Add machine embroidery to some of the small spools to echo your love of sewing, using our new machine embroidery collection. The collection is available as individual designs, as a collection and delivered with purchase of our Love to Sew Machine Embroidery Palette. The palette contains the six Rayon thread spools needed to embroider all of the designs in the collection! Designed by Cherry Guidry of Cherry Blossoms Quilting, this pattern is for…