Off to Germany with Craftours! Join us in 2020
And we’re off to Germany with Craftours!
Our Germany with Craftours adventure begins in Frankfurt, where we will land early tomorrow morning. Upon arriving, we’ll have a panoramic tour and go shopping at our first Christmas market.
I’m excited to meet everyone at our welcome dinner, where we will all learn a bit about each other and toast to a wonderful trip ahead!
GERMANY WITH CRAFTOURS DETAILS
We’ll visit the Sulky thread factory in Stockstadt on our trip to Germany with Craftours. There we will watch how Sulky thread is made and twisted. I visited this facility in 2009 and I am excited to return.
The following days will be spent sightseeing, shopping and eating. Plus, we’ll experience some fun activities that the typical tourist wouldn’t have access to (like an apple strudel cooking lesson and ornament-making workshop!). We’ll also visit the Sulky dye house in Austria, to witness the amazing process that makes Sulky thread so vibrant and beautiful. It’s eye-opening to see just how much effort goes into each spool that we place onto our machines.
I know the entire experience will fill me with tons of inspiration for upcoming sewing and quilting projects. Be sure to like our page on Facebook, where I’ll be posting and live streaming during the tour!
If you’re a bit envious, you can join us in 2020 for our next trip to Germany with Craftours! We are adding some different excursions and activities to change it up a bit for current tour-goers, and are building in a few surprises as well. For more information, contact Craftours directly.
Ellen March
I am the Director of Content for Sulky of America. The former Editor in Chief of Sew News and Creative Machine Embroidery magazines, I hosted Sew it All TV on PBS for nine seasons. I've appeared on It's Sew Easy on PBS, DIY Network's Uncommon Threads, Hallmark's Marie Osmond Show, MacPhee Workshop and more! Come sew with me!
4 Comments
brentprim
OMG, that’s little over a hour away from me. I didn’t know that Sulky was German. Have fun.
Mary Mangum
Hi, This is Mary Mangum and I won the 25th Anniversary Sulky Trip to Europe and we had a blast! I know that this will also be a fun filled tour and the factory tours are amazing. My husband who is not a quilter loved the factory tours and the whole trip! He says it is the best vacation we have ever been one!! Ellen and her husband were on that trip with us and we really enjoyed them!! Have fun and know I will be wishing I was with you! Sulky is a wonderful company and Fred and Joyce Drexler are the greatest!!
Ellen March
Hi Mary! Yes we had a wonderful time together. Maybe you need to join us again in 2020!
Best,
Ellen
JD
Have a wonderful time. I am sure you all will.