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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 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…
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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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Embroidery Hoop Art – Easy Thanksgiving Décor
EMBROIDERY HOOP ART WITH AUTUMN LEAVES Create hand embroidered wall art to display inside a wooden embroidery hoop to welcome in the fall leaves. Beautiful wool felt comes in pretty heathered shades, which work well for this project. But any stable fabric will work as well – even craft felt. The inspiration for this project is from Rebecca Greco’s Rainbow Felt Wreath, which is reimagined with different shapes of leaves and Sulky Blendables® 12 wt. Thread. HOOP ART SUPPLIES Autumn Leaves Template 8” German Wooden Embroidery Hoop Sulky Cotton Petites™ Thread (featured colors: Autumn & Milk Chocolate) 9” x 12” rectangle of wool felt (or other stable medium- to heavyweight…
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Costume Face Masks to Sew for Halloween
Costume Face Masks A costume face mask is a great project to sew for Halloween. Whether you choose to dress up in a matching outfit or not, a costume face mask gets you in the spooky spirit for work parties, grocery shopping or trick-or-treating with the kiddos. Choose from a Mask-o-Lantern, Skeleton Smile, Mustache or Lips for the mask appliqué, and secure to the mask using Sulky Perfect Appliqué Fusible Web (available soon!) and high-quality 50 wt. Cotton Thread. COSTUME FACE MASK SUPPLIES Sulky Perfect Appliqué Fusible Web (coming soon!) or SoftFuse™ Premium Fusible Web 10″ x 12″ rectangle of fabric (mask front & lining) approximately 5″ x 10″ rectangle…
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Backpack Charms for Back to School Gifts
Backpack Charms to embroider, make & give Create cute backpack charms from freestanding animals for back-to-school gifts. These embroidery designs are commonly called “felties” and are embroidered onto a felt base. Choose from a no-fray fabric, such as cork, or a printed ribbon to hang the backpack charm from a swivel hook. SUPPLIES Thread: Sulky Poly Deco™ (colors according to design), Sulky Bobbin & Sulky 30 wt. Cotton (to match felt) 1 sheet of Felt (or scraps at least 5″ square, depending on embroidery design size) Stabilizers: Sulky Sticky+™ & Sulky Solvy® Organ® size 90/14 Embroidery Needles Animal feltie design, such as a Llama or Sloth (shown: Girl Llama Feltie…
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Sun Table Topper using Sunshine & Daydreams Palette
Here Comes the Sun Table Topper designed by Ellen March Let the sunshine in with a beautiful Sun table topper. Featuring appliqué and quilting, this centerpiece will bring you and your guests rays of happiness. The trick to successful sewing is to use lightweight, high-quality fusible web and lustrous, long-staple thread. SUPPLIES Sulky Sunshine & Daydreams 50 wt. Thread Palette for Quilting KK 2000™ Temporary Spray Adhesive Lightweight fusible web (such as Sulky Perfect Appliqué Fusible Web (coming soon) or SoftFuse Premium™ ) Size 70/10 Organ™ Microtex Needles (2) 30” squares of Background fabric (shown in white) 15” square of Center Sun fabric Fat quarter of Sun Ray fabric Fat…
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Rainbow Quilt Pattern from Sulky
Rainbow Valley Quilt Create a quick-and-easy strip-pieced Rainbow Quilt and accent it with beautiful 50 wt. Cotton Thread in assorted rainbow shades. This quilt utilizes half of a rainbow-shade jelly roll, with additional strips of black fabric. Change it up by using any jelly roll collection, with a neutral solid to break up the other colors. SUPPLIES Rainbows & Unicorns 50 wt. Cotton Thread Palette for Quilting (includes Light Red, Tangerine, Mimosa Yellow, Christmas Green, Dark Periwinkle, Wildflower, Dk Rose, Hot Pink, Turquoise, Med Aqua & Soft White colors) Sulky KK 2000™ Temporary Spray Adhesive Organ® size 70/10 Universal Needles Jelly Roll: 12 rainbow shades, 2 ½”-wide x WOF strips…
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Oilcloth Sunscreen Roll-up Tutorial
Oilcloth Sunscreen Roll-Up Get organized with this oilcloth sunscreen roll-up that stores sunscreen tubes, chapsticks and sanitizers safely and decoratively! As we splash into summer, it’s important to consider where and when we’ll be using the projects we create to make sure they aren’t damaged by water, sand and sun. Fabric choice is important: oilcloth, laminated cotton and other coated textiles are often good choices for water-resistance as well as durability. Sunscreen Roll-up This makeup brush tutorial was used to create the sunscreen roll-up, but with a few modifications. Instead of adding a vinyl layer to the cotton fabric right side, oilcloth fabric was used. Oilcloth is a stiffer fabric…
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Place Mat – Quilted Team USA Appliqué Project
Make a Place Mat to Show Your Patriotic Pride Make this place mat to prep for July 4 entertaining, decorating for the summer Olympics and more. This project features piecing, appliqué quilting and sparkly binding. Choose one or all of the techniques to make this place mat your own. Create a set that matches or several slightly different variations for your festive place setting. Finished place mat measures 12” x 16 ¾”. Supplies are enough for one place mat. SUPPLIES Patriotic Pride Thread Palette for Quilting (6 snap spools of Sulky 50 wt. Cotton Thread) Fusible Web Organ® size 70/10 Universal Needle Sulky KK 2000™ Temporary Spray Adhesive (3) 5”…
