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Freestanding Butterflies in the Hoop – Free Webinar
Freestanding Butterflies in the Hoop FREE Sulky Webinar Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 2pm EDT Creating freestanding butterflies in the hoop of your embroidery machine is easy if you use the right stabilizer and follow the steps provided by the digitizer. You’re probably familiar with freestanding lace, which is another freestanding technique. This design is technically freestanding appliqué. Similar to making a patch in the hoop of your machine, creating this butterfly is made of mostly thread (like lace making) but with the addition of fabric. Choose different fabrics, from batiks to double-sided prints, to create all sorts of different butterflies! In our free webinar on June 9, 2020 at…
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Free Sewing Class – Stabilizer Sew-lutions + 4 Seasons of Appliqué
Stabilizer Sew-lutions + 4 Seasons of Simply Appliqué FREE WEBINAR! Taking a free sewing class on stabilizer sew-lutions and creating a fun seasonal appliqué wall hanging has never been more fun! And since we can’t be together in person, we thought we’d bring you an experience like no other, for you to join this free sewing class in the comfort of your own home. On Tuesday, May 26 at 2pm EDT, Sulky is bringing you a FREE webinar – but this is unlike any free sewing class you’ve experienced before with Sulky. This is a virtual guild event, much like those we present in person to guilds across the country.…
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Embroidery on Shoes: Embellishments by Hand & Machine
Embroidery on Shoes? Yes, you can! Have you ever wondered how to add embroidery on shoes? Here’s your answer: Make them yourself! Yes, it’s possible to embroider shoes that are readymade. But it’s not easy to access the inside of the shoe to stitch and virtually impossible to hoop a shoe for machine embroidery. The answer is DIY SHOES and we’ve got your tutorial, expert tips and KIT so you can do it easier and have so much fun. EMBROIDERY ON SHOES – THE WEBINAR Our FREE Blooming Espadrilles webinar is May 12 at 2pm EDT. Melissa Quaal of A Happy Stitch will join us to tell us how these…
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Chameleon Quilt with Desiree Habicht of Desiree’s Designs
Chameleon Quilt Webinar Guest, Desiree Habicht Desiree Habicht, of Desiree’s Designs, created a fun chameleon quilt for our free Sulky webinar on April 7, 2020 at 2pm EDT. Read on to get to know Desiree and sign up for the Color Me Chameleon Quilt webinar to reserve your spot today! After the live date, the webinar is available on-demand to watch at your leisure (still completely free). ABOUT DESIREE Q: What type of sewist/crafter/quilter are you? What’s your specialty? A: I call myself an artistic quilter or fiber artist. I love to incorporate my artistic twist into all of my designs, patterns and embroidery. It helps make our designs unique.…
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Stitches of Love “Love to Sew” Pillow – Free Webinar
Stitches of Love Presents The “Love to Sew” Appliqué Pillow! The mother-daughter duo behind Stitches of Love has been a long-time fan of Sulky threads. So we decided to join forces for our March webinar to bring you their Love to Sew pillow, a project developed by Stitches of Love exclusively for Sulky! In this webinar, you’ll learn to LOVE appliqué. Plus, you’ll learn how to work with heavyweight thread to add texture, color, and detail to all the projects you embellish. LEARN WITH US Julie and Brittany will showcase their Love to Sew appliqué pillow to demonstrate the following techniques: Read appliqué patterns Work with pre-fused appliqué pieces and an appliqué placement…
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Hobo Cork Bag Webinar with Sallie Tomato’s Jessica Barrera
Hobo Cork Bag Webinar Join us to learn the ins and outs of this Hobo Cork Bag, designed by Jessica Barrera of Sallie Tomato. The bag pattern, Scarlett, is named after Scarlett O’Hara, and features a fun tassel, bag hardware and optional machine embroidery. Available in two colorways, charcoal and cardinal, the Hobo Cork Bag kit, a Sulky exclusive, comes with the high-end cork fabric, bag hardware and Sulky notions, including Organ needles, Fuse ‘N Stitch™ stabilizer, Poly Deco™ thread for construction and a brand new Sulky thread: Poly Star™. This thread spool is not available anywhere else! You’ll be the first to try it and see the sparkle it…
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Meet the Elizabeth Diamond Diva – Free Webinar!
Elizabeth Diamond Diva Webinar The Elizabeth Diamond Diva quilt pattern is the latest gemstone quilt design by MJ Kinman. Take our FREE webinar to learn the ins and outs of piecing this beautiful quilt! WEBINAR DETAILS Join us Wednesday, January 8 at 2pm EST, when MJ herself walks us through the Elizabeth Diamond Diva quilt pattern. You’ll learn how to follow MJ’s piecing plan to easily break up the work into sections. Plus, find out why she prefers to use Sulky Rayon thread for piecing and quilting. You’ll also learn how to recover from piecing mistakes without having to take apart seams when something goes awry. MJ’s teaching style is…
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Christmas in the Hoop with Sweet Pea Webinar
Join our FREE Christmas in the Hoop with Sweet Pea webinar! Creating ornaments and gift tags for Christmas in the hoop of your embroidery machine is an easy way to decorate and celebrate the holidays! Register now to reserve your spot and attend on December 3, 2019 at 2pm US EST. Don’t worry – if you can’t make, it’s available to watch on-demand after the live date! CHRISTMAS IN THE HOOP DETAILS In this webinar, you’ll learn all about in-the-hoop designs from Martyn Smith, who helps create and test the designs for Sweet Pea embroidery. Martyn will take you through the entire process of making not one, but TWO fun…
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Hand Lettered Quilting + Postcard Project with Karlee Porter
What is Hand Lettered Quilting? Hand lettered quilting is a technique that allows you to incorporate chalkboard-art style into your creations. Karlee Porter is the designer behind this style of quilting, typically done by free-motion stitching. What is done by “hand,” then, you ask? Creating the design is done by hand, and the resulting design has a hand-drawn look. To achieve the look in stitches, there are three options: hand embroidery, free-motion and machine embroidery. In Sulky’s free webinar on November 12 at 2pm EDT, Karlee will showcase all three methods so you can use the one that suits you and your creative style. Plus, you’ll learn how to create…
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Winter Mini Quilt with Simply Applique – Free Webinar!
Winter Mini Quilt made easy with Simply Applique Join us in a new FREE webinar, October 8, 2019 at 2pm to learn how to make a winter mini quilt using pre-fused, laser-cut applique pieces. What is Simply Applique? Simply Applique is a program Sulky began with Shabby Fabrics. Together, we curated four kits to represent the four seasons: winter, spring, summer and fall. Sulky chose rayon threads to coordinate with the fabrics chosen for each mini quilt, including a few metallic spools in the mix. Each kit comes with laser-cut applique pieces that are already treated with Soft Fuse, a fusible web that is super easy to use. Soft Fuse…
