Sulky Education
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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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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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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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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…
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Top 10 Notions from Eric Drexler, Sulky Educator
Eric Drexler’s Top 10 Notions If I was on a deserted island with power and my sewing machine, these are the 10 notions I would need, and why: Collins Sewer’s Aid: It is a silicone lubricant that helps with some speciality threads, and fabrics. What I like the most is it keeps the adhesive off my needle when using any sticky-back product (including fusible webs). Simply put a drop on your finger and rub on the needle. Reapply as you start to see a build up again. Sew Steady Table: Since I first laid eyes on this extension table, I knew I was in love. The square inches of extra work area…
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Learn From the Best to Improve Your Sewing Skills
Learn from the Best How to learn from the best? When people ask me what is the best way to improve their sewing skills, I tell them two things. First, practice! Nothing takes the place of good old fashion trial and error. The second thing I say is take a class from Ellen Osten! She has forgotten more about sewing than you and I will ever learn. I remember my very first class with her. I left that room empowered to try new things and with a whole base of knowledge. I have never learned more in a single class than I did in that first class with Ellen. Ellen…
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Free-Motion Fun with Eric Drexler
If you have seen any of Sulky National Educator and Free-Motion Guru, Eric Drexler’s work, then you know what an amazing artist he is. Last summer, he learned how to Zentangle®. The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. When Eric learned it, he immediately thought, “I could do this with thread!” So he did! And he has created some amazing things. (Eric did the above pattern using a FriXion™ pen, but once ironed this amazing pattern is gone! So, he figured out a way to get the pattern on the fabric and yet still keep it – learn his secret.) So…
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Sewing Online With Sulky – sign up for a Free Webinar!
We have had a wonderful response to our first Sewing Online with Sulky Webinar! We filled all the available slots in the first couple days so we have decided to double the available spots for attendees! Please join us for Sulky’s first online webinar hosted by one of our National Educators, Michelle Umlauf. This webinar is absolutely FREE. All you need to do is register (Do it soon before we fill up again!). The best part is, since this is an online event, we are coming to you. During this one-hour webinar, we will highlight a project published in our newest book “Embellish Your Life with Sulky”. You will learn the secrets…
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Advice to Sewists in 2015
Have you noticed this picture making it’s rounds on the internet lately? Since this was the advice given to women who had just purchased a sewing machine in 1949, I wondered what advice we would give today. So a few weeks ago, I asked my eNewsletter readers to send in the advice that they would give to a person who had just purchased a brand new sewing machine. I received over 100 responses! After combing through all the advice: some gave the same advice, some gave funny advice and yet others had conflicting advice! I have sorted through them all, consolidated it and here is what Sulky fans came up with: If…
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The Stabilizer Series – Sulky Tender Touch
We are well into this series now and have gone through the basics of stabilizers and their uses, now lets get to some other uses! If you missed the start of this series, here are the links: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, and the Infographic! Today I want to tell you about Sulky® Tender Touch™. Tender Touch originated as a “cover-a-stitch” backing that is used when you do embroidery on clothes for babies or small children. That is still the primary use of this product, but there is sew much more you can do with it! For me personally, Tender Touch has saved the day on many occasions. My…
