Tutorials
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Cutest Little Easter or May Day Basket
What a fun Easter or May Day Basket to make! Made out of dyed Sulky® Cut-Away Plus™ stabilizer! By Diane Gloystein National Educator representing Sulky of America MATERIALS LIST 2 colors of fabric dye (I used aqua & purple) 1 square of 12” x 12” Sulky Cut-Away Plus™ stabilizer 4 18” x 1” strips of Sulky Cut-Away Plus stabilizer 20” length of coordinating 1” wide ribbon Sulky Clear Invisible Thread 1 spool of Sulky 30 wt. Blendables™ Thread BERNINA Ruffler Foot #86 BERNINA Decorative Stitch Foot # 46C Dye a 12” square of Sulky’s Cut Away Plus stabilizer with fabric dye. Mix a 2nd color of dye. Dye four 18” x 1” strips of…
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St. Patty’s Day Placemats – 4 mats in 4 hours
The other night I decided I wanted St. Patrick’s Day place mats. I had found this cute fabric and had an idea in my head so I just went for it. They turned out so cute that I thought I should do a tutorial. These took me about 4 hours to do, start to finish, so you could make them this weekend and have them for your St. Patty’s Day feast. Supplies 1 yard of green fabric 1-1/2 yards of white fabric Batting (I used Warm and White™) Sulky® Soft n Sheer Extra™ Sulky PolyLite™ in Ecru or White 1/2″ Bias tape maker 1/2″ Steam a Seam tape Ruler…
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Valentine’s Day DIY – Free Pattern Download
I love Valentine’s Day! I have friends that hate it. They say it’s a made-up holiday that forces people to buy useless stuff for people. But I personally think it is so much fun. Maybe it’s the hippie-chic in me…but any day that is focused on telling people you love and appreciate them is a good day in my mind. It also doesn’t hurt that all colors in the red to pink family are my favorites! This year Valentine’s Day is on a Saturday so I expect that I will make heart shaped muffins for breakfast for my family. Here is a quick and easy recipe. I will also give…
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Make Your Own Award Ribbons With Your Embroidery Machine
Recently my quilt guild had our bi-annual Quilt Show. This year we had a new division: The Young Quilters’ division. Since this is not a juried show, we normally only give one award, the Peoples’ Choice award, but I just couldn’t in good conscience let the Young Quilters go away from our show without a ribbon. Confession time, I procrastinated and never got real ribbons ordered. So there I was sitting in my sewing studio the day before the Quilt Show was to open and I needed 4 ribbons to go on the four precious quilts that were entered in our Young Quilters division. I looked in my drawer and saw…
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Quick Thanksgiving Thread Sketch with Free Pattern
I was cruising around on Pinterest the other day when I came across this free printable from the website Living Well Spending Less. I thought it would look great done in thread and sitting in the center of my Thanksgiving table. So that’s what I did! I started by reversing the print so the letters are black and the background is white, then printed it out on Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy™. Next, I grabbed some of the new cotton colors that Sulky just introduced and auditioned thread. For the solid color cottons, I can just lay the spool down on the fabric and get a good idea what will work but with the…
