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Dandelion Quilt with Appliqué for Spring – Free Pattern
Dandelion Quilt Create a Dandelion Quilt to showcase the coming of spring! This Dandelion Quilt pattern includes loads of quilting techniques, starting with raw-edge appliqué with Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy™, textured threads (Sulky Filaine™) for dimension, long-arm quilting with Sulky Blendables® Thread and binding by hand or machine. PATTERN PARTICULARS The Dandelion Quilt pattern provides instructions for enlarging the FREE Dandelion hand embroidery pattern to create your own appliqué template. A Daylight Wafer Light Box helps create each appliqué piece without needing to print the design multiple times. Use a standard printer and enlarge in increments until the desired size is achieved. Or, print out the Dandelion pattern at 100%, grid…
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Free Fox Design + Fun Foxy Filaine Fleece Pillow Project
Free Fox Design + Fringe Pillow Project by Katrina Walker Grab the Sulky free Fox Design, Filaine Fox, and snuggle up your foxy Valentine with a cuddly fleece pillow. Featuring the adorably fuzzy fox and lots of floppy fringe, this pillow is super fun and easy to create with Filaine thread and less than a yard of fleece! Note: The featured free fox design has fill areas that are digitized for 12 wt. acrylic Sulky Filaine Thread, for use with a size 100/16 needle. If you choose a different thread weight, the design will not fill properly. SUPPLIES Thread: Filaine™: 3424 Maple, 3406 Light Ecru, 3852 True Orange Bobbin Poly…
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How to Sew a Zipper Pouch with Dandelion Embroidery
Sew a Zipper Pouch + Embellish with Dandelion Embroidery Learn how to sew a zipper pouch that’s fully lined with a professional finish. Plus, add a machine embroidered dandelion that “blooms” when brushed. A fun tassel on a key ring that makes a special zipper pull provides a little something “extra” to this great gift idea. If you caught our FREE Serger Smarts webinar, this embroidery design is familiar to you! The same Dandelion design, available with purchase of our Pollen Slimline Palette, was featured on the Market Tote kit designed by Katrina Walker. ZIPPER POUCH SUPPLIES Embroidery design (no larger than 6″ x 8″; featured Dandelion from the Sulky…
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Denim Embellishments FIVE Ways
5 Denim Embellishments to Sew & Embroider Personalizing denim, whether it’s jeans, jackets, vests or bags, is a great way to dress up a staple in your closet and make it special. From machine embroidery to topstitching and more, we’ll explore five denim embellishments that are easily completed in no time. Denim Embellishment #1: Machine Embroidery Machine embroidery is a super popular denim embellishment because the design options are truly endless. Designer Katrina Walker tells us how she embroiders her jeans, by taking apart the inner seam and embroidering a large-scale design along the leg. from Katrina: The featured designs were created and digitized by me for my Embroidering Denim…
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Serger Smarts + Fun with Filaine Thread FREE Webinar
Serger Smarts + Fun with Filaine™ a free webinar with Katrina Walker Join us for a FREE webinar: Serger Smarts + Fun with Filaine on September 8, 2020 at 2pm EDT. You requested more “serger smarts” content and we’ve got you covered! Katrina Walker will explain lots of uses for your serger, going over needles and thread and explaining functional and decorative applications. No serger? No problem! The featured project is also easily completed with a standard sewing machine. Though, you’ll be inspired to upgrade your sewing space with a serger after hearing all you can do with it! Katrina’s new book, A Field Guide: Serger 101 goes into further…
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Fur Cat Machine Embroidery Design Debut
Fur Cat Machine Embroidery Design: Chilly Cat Create fun fur effects with our fur cat machine embroidery design: Chilly Cat! Chilly is ready for the holidays in his Santa hat, too. Ramp up your Christmas in July stitching with this free fur cat machine embroidery design, available free for a limited time. This design freebie will expire July 31, 2020, so get it while the getting is good! The fur on Chilly Cat as well as the fur on the Santa hat is stitched with Sulky Filaine acrylic thread. The elongated stitches made with this 12 wt. thick thread allow you to fluff the fibers using a Filaine Wire Brush,…
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Serging with Filaine Thread for Soft, Fuzzy Seams
Serging with Filaine Thread by Linda McGehee of Ghee’s Sulky Filaine thread is a fuzzy heavyweight thread that gives a nice texture to seams and seam finishes. Serging with Filaine thread is a fun way to incorporate this softness into your projects. When paired with fleece, felted wool, woolens and other textured fabrics, serging with Filaine maintains the fabric hand along seams, both decorative and functional, while producing a strong lasting stitch. Linda McGehee, of Ghee’s Sewing Patterns & Notions, experimented with Filaine, using it in the serger loopers. She loved it so much that she taught a class at the Puyallup Sewing & Stitchery Expo all about how to…
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Create a Filaine Fluffy Kitty with Fun Free-Motion Techniques
Filaine Fluffy Kitty by Bonnie Langenfeld Create a Filaine fluffy kitty using free-motion embroidery techniques. When making this project you will learn how to use fabrics for background color fill, use Sulky® Filaine thread to create beautiful life-like fur, and attach the image to a background of your choice. Finished Kitty is about 10″ high. Fluffy Kitty Supply List Sulky™ Filaine Brush Sulky 12 wt. Filaine thread #864-1000 White #864-1001 Black #864-3327 Med. Dark Gray #864-3977 Dark Whisper Gray Sulky 40 wt. Poly Deco thread in black, medium gray and white (for bobbins and details) Organ 90/14 Top Stitch needles Sewing machine with free motion or darning foot, feed dogs…
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Decorative Thread for Serging – National Serger Month Kickoff
Decorative Thread for Serging It’s National Serger Month! Using decorative thread for serging in the loopers (and even needles) transforms your serger from functional to decorative, thereby expanding the capabilities you have with your serger. To kickoff national Serger Month, we’ll dive into the fun threads you can use with your serger to breathe new life into your projects. The Baby Lock Triumph serger, shown above, is fresh out of the box, just waiting to test out all sorts of fun threads! SULKY POLY DECO™ FOR SERGING Even if your seams are functional, rather than decorative, you can still change up the thread colors and showcase a different color for…
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Embroidery on Jeans – Applique Method
Floral Embroidery on Jeans by Zandra Shaw Have you always wanted the look of designer jeans with embroidery but are unsure where to start? Or maybe you’ve tried embroidering jeans, and after taking the jeans apart you never get them sewn back up again quite right. This applique method is the answer to beautiful embroidery on jeans without the hassle of having the take the jeans apart. FREESTANDING APPLIQUES Zandra Shaw of Embroider Shoppe teaches how to create freestanding appliques out of embroidery designs! This “patch” method is a great technique to apply to other ready-to-wear projects, too! Give the jeans a vintage-inspired look by using Sulky Filaine thread. This…
