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Seasons with Sulky Has Started But You Can Still Join!
The first Sulky Online Teacher Certification Continuing Education course began yesterday and an amazing number of our alums and new friends were so excited to get started! This has been a much anticipated class and at $99, an amazing deal. The students will not only learn over 25 amazing sewing techniques, they have complete written and video instructions that they get to download and keep forever. These calendars can also be made just as wallhangings, and only Summer is required for Certification. During the class, they will also receive expert advice and feedback on the projects as they work on them as well as praise, inspiration and encouragement from fellow students…
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Christmas in July Series – Bonus Projects from your Christmas Tree Skirt Fabric Scraps
Special note: This was supposed to go up last week, but I had to get emergency dental surgery and that just threw everything off! I hope you will forgive me the delay. I will post extra this week, I promise! Enjoy. Blame it on hoarding, or my mom, or my complete and utter addiction to fabric, but I have a hard time throwing scrap fabric away. So when I was making the Speedy Spiral Christmas Tree Skirt, I just knew that I would have to come up with some cool ways to use the scrap fabric, especially the extra wedges that I got out of my strip sets! I mean really,…
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Christmas in July Series – The Speedy Spiral Christmas Tree Skirt
A speedy spiral Christmas tree skirt is just what we need to update our holiday décor. I know Christmas is 6 months away, but if you are like me, the closer it gets to the end of the year holidays, the more frantic I am. Between my kids going back to school, fall, Halloween, football season, Thanksgiving and then Christmas, I am lucky to get all my costumes and gifts made. I don’t usually have time to make any new Christmas decorations for myself. Every year, I say I am going to make new decorations and every year I get too busy. So this year I am doing them now!…
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Sewing Online With Sulky – Another Free Webinar!
You asked for more inspiration and techniques and we are bringing it to you during this FREE hour-long webinar July 14 at 9:00 p.m. EDT. Our feature project is a fun and easy Stabilizer Organizer originally demonstrated by Sue Hausmann on Sew It All PBS TV. Although the original organizer was embroidered, you do not need an embroidery machine to make this clever organizer. All you need is some general sewing skills and your imagination. After you learn the basics of making this organizer, you will be able to whip them together and use them for all kinds of organizing around your home, even for shoes or yarn! Michelle Umlauf,…
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A Few Quick Patriotic Tutorials – Yes, you can do them all by this weekend!
As I was pulling out all of my patriotic decor this weekend, I realized that I had a few things missing! I have my awesome placemats (tutorial here) and my favorite door hanger (You can get the design and the pattern from the Sulky Embroidery Club here) and I hung my flag in front of my house; but I didn’t have a new outfit to wear on July 4th and I really wanted a few more little things to go around the house. So I headed over to the Sulky Embroidery Club to see what patriotic designs were there to give me inspiration. The first one I came across was…
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Sulky Online Teacher Certification Testimonials
One of my favorite side effects of my job is that I get all kinds of phone calls, emails and comments from Sulky fans every week. Yesterday a woman called me in a panic. She was at a retail location looking at the wall of Sulky stabilizers and was just overwhelmed. I was able to talk with her about her projects and help her get the right product. But my absolute favorites are the emails that we get after someone has completed the online Sulky Teacher Certification class. Rather than me sitting here and recounting them to you, why don’t you read some of them for yourself… “I’m truly inspired and…
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Mimi G Style Conference Fashion Show
Sulky was proud to once again sponsor the Mimi G Style Fashion, Sewing & Style conference last weekend in Los Angeles, CA. Mimi has been a great friend of Sulky and loves our products. This year, the conference added a fashion show where attendees could strut their stuff in clothing they had made using Mimi G patterns and tutorials. There is a wonderful blog post and slide show of that fashion show on her blog. Check it out here! Thanks, Mimi for letting Sulky once again participate in this great event. Happy Sewing!
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7 Reasons to Sew Every Day
Sewing is my favorite hobby. I really would rather sew than just about anything, but life, kids, the house, the hubby , the job…it all seems to drown out that precious time to sew. One the my favorite bits of advice that I received when I asked you to send in advice to new sewists (see that post here) was to sew for at least 20 minutes per day! I love that and have tried to put that great advice into practice ever since then. It has been an amazing change for me in my life! Today I want to motivate you to do the same thing by giving you…
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Quick Gifts – Make These In Less Than An Hour!
Sometimes you just need a really quick gift. Maybe you forgot about that bridal shower you are supposed to go to this weekend, or maybe you thought Father’s Day was next weekend (it’s not, by the way, it’s Sunday), or maybe you are just really good at procrastinating like me! Whatever the reason, sometimes a quick, yet thoughtful gift is in order. Before I go any further I do want to clear something up. Just because a gift is quick to make, doesn’t mean it isn’t meaningful. I mean you could have just stopped by the grocery store on your way to that shower or Father’s Day lunch, picked up…
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Why I Became a Sulky Certified Teacher
As most of you know, my journey with Sulky began because I took a Sulky Teacher Certification class. I knew about Sulky before that class, I had an embarrassing amount of Sulky Thread and Sulky Stabilizers, but I, like many people, only thought of Sulky when I needed to do some machine embroidery. That’s when National Educator Nancy Sapin came to my quilt guild and gave an amazing and inspiring presentation about thread. She showed so many samples and inspiring projects and none of them were machine embroidery! They were quilts, bags, wearables, scarfs and even bowls. She mentioned the Sulky Teacher Certification Class and I was intrigued. I was ready…
