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Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas
Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas – DIY and Pre-Made! Valentine’s Day will be here before you know it! Luckily, we have tons of Valentine’s Day gift ideas for you on our blog. We also just launched a NEW Valentine’s Day Shop, packed with Valentine thread, kits, designs, and sewing-themed jewelry and decor for you to spoil your loved ones. Not sure what to get? Here are a few of our favorite projects and products that make perfect Valentine’s Day gifts. Filled with Love Tea Towel Add an adorable Filled with Love tea towel design to a blank trimmed tea towel to gift for Valentine’s Day. All you need is our Cup…
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Your First Machine Embroidery Project – A Beginner’s Guide
Start Your First Machine Embroidery Project! by Pamela Cox It’s time to start your first machine embroidery project to wrap up National Embroidery Month! We’ve covered how to start adding machine embroidery techniques into your sewing repertoire, and we’ve defined the must-know machine embroidery terms. Now it’s time for the fun stuff–embroidering that first project. WHERE TO FIND MACHINE EMBROIDERY PROJECTS The internet is a veritable salad bar of sewing, quilting and machine embroidery projects. How do we know which ones are good for beginners? Narrow your search by being very specific. What do YOU want to make (think small, and go bigger once you’ve had more practice.)? Do you…
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Understanding Machine Embroidery Terms
Understanding Machine Embroidery Terms by Pamela Cox Understanding machine embroidery terms is essential for navigating through techniques and expanding your machine embroidery skills. Don’t hold back on adding machine embroidery to your sewing bag of tricks because of the word “computerized” or “digital.” Enjoying machine embroidery doesn’t require expert-level computer knowledge! The embroidery machine (a computer in its own right) easily interfaces, or “works with,” the home computer with little effort and minimum knowledge. Machine Embroidery Design Language Why can you not view an embroidery design on your home computer without using software? Embroidery designs are created only for specialized computers, specifically embroidery machines. A home computer, which can perform…
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Machine Embroidery for Beginners – How to Start
Machine Embroidery for Beginners how to get started with machine embroidery by Pamela Cox Machine embroidery is a fun sewing technique that allows you to personalize readymade items and custom sewing projects. It’s a simple embellishment to learn once you understand the fundamentals, because the machine does most of the work for you! Let’s delve in to the world of machine embroidery to see just how simple and fun it can be. Whether you consider yourself a quilter, garment sewist, home-dec aficionado, cross-stitcher, tailor or general crafter, machine embroidery is a technique that adds another layer to your creativity. Think you need to be a super advanced sewist in order…
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Halloween Hat with Puffy & Glowy Embroidery
Plush Hat for Halloween + Make it Glow! by Pamela Cox Create a fun hat with Glow embroidery to wear on Halloween night and beyond! The glow-in-the-dark thread is punctuated by Sulky Puffy Foam, which makes the embroidery stand proud atop the plush fabric surface. HALLOWEEN HAT PREP Download the free Sulky Fleece Hat Pattern. Additionally, download the free embroidery design in the format of your choice. Gather the supplies listed in the pattern directions with the following exceptions: Use Sulky Puffy Foam™-2mm as top stabilizer. For the embroidery design, use Glowy thread in the color of your choice. Use a size 100/16 Organ universal or topstitch needle for the embroidery.…
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Machine Embroidered Christmas Pillow with Removable Tags
Add some holiday cheer to any room with a simple embroidered Christmas Pillow. After the holidays, slip the pillow form out and easily store the embroidered Christmas pillow sham until next year. Hold on to the pillow form to create a new cover, a new design for every month of the year, for an ever-changing home accent. Embroidered Christmas Pillow designed by Pamela Cox. Supplies ⅛ yard – wool felt ½ yard of Osnaburg utility fabric (prewash, dry, and press) ½ yard of decorative ribbon – 2 3/8” wide ½ yard of decorative ribbon – 1/2” wide …
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Rainbow Felt Wreath with Hand Embroidery
With so much rain (and even snow) in much of the country we’re looking for the rainbows and sunny days ahead! Whip up a rainbow felt wreath to bring some color to your front door and start searching for that pot of gold. Rebecca Greco shares just how fun and easy making this rainbow felt wreath is. Not only does it only take a few hours to stitch, it doesn’t require many materials, either. Make one for a retiring teacher or lunch helper to say goodbye once school is out for summer – or one for yourself! Add an initial or monogram to the center for even more personalization. This…
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Patriotic Pinnacle Crafty Gemini Table Runner
Learn how to create Vanessa Wilson’s (aka Crafty Gemini) Pinnacle Table Runner – Patriotic style in our free webinar. Vanessa’s past webinar showcasing her fun, colorful crafty gemini table runner was a huge hit – so much so that we decided to re-create that same project into a festive patriotic piece that can be used for Independence Day celebrations. Ellen March, Sulky’s Director of Content, even added some fun patriotic embroidery designs! This is a super fun, easy-to-make project that you can use year after year. Join us live or on-demand The live date is May 8, 2019 at 2:00 pm EDT, but you can watch it any time…
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Visible Mending Webinar
Visible Mending Free Webinar with Jenny Wilding Cardon Welcome to the world of visible mending – where holes, rips, tears, and even stains provide opportunities for one-of-a-kind creativity. In this free, 1-hour webinar, Jenny Wilding Cardon will demonstrate step-by-step how to mend and repair damaged or worn clothing. April 9, 2019 2:00 pm EDT Can’t make it? You can still sign up and watch it on-demand following the initial broadcast! What you’ll learn: The concept of Visible Mending Two easy hand-sewing techniques to mend clothing, linens, and other fabric items Boro stitching, a traditional Japanese mending technique A fun technique for turning unsightly holes into cool conversation…
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Matchstick Quilting Quilt Block – Kelly Nagel
This matchstick quilt block is named as such because of the matchstick quilting it features, which really calls attention to the brightly colored thread used on a neutral background. Matchstick quilting is basically straight line quilting but a bit wonky. The stitching lines are placed about a matchstick-length apart, and just like a burned matchstick, the lines aren’t perfectly straight. For this quilt block, we’ll take matchstick quilting one step beyond and use the negative space in the quilting to spell out a name. This process is easy with Sulky Stick ‘n Stitch. Stick ‘n Stitch is a water soluble sticky back stabilizer that is a great tool for straight…
