• how to use a serger

    How to Use A Serger – NEW Online Course

    How to Use A Serger learn the basics & beyond with Katrina Walker! In this Sulky Serger Sewing Session, Katrina Walker will teach you all about how to use a serger. You’ll learn everything from serger anatomy to basic stitches to decorative applications and more. Plus, Katrina will show you how to make a couple holiday home décor projects solely with a serger, using a jelly roll and gorgeous thread. Sign up before the Session is active and get $5 off your registration fee! SERGER SESSION DETAILS This Serger Session includes 5 Lessons, with multiple sections within each Lesson to navigate through at your own pace. With five video tutorials…

  • take a crafty vacation

    Crafty Vacation Destinations for 2022

    Take a Crafty Vacation Check out our Destinations in 2022 with Craftours! Join us September 2022 for a trip of a lifetime! Sulky is partnering again with Craftours, the leading craft destination travel company, to bring you our 35th anniversary tour! Read on to learn more, and click HERE to register! We have one year to plan, which means you can start a payment plan through Craftours and work your way to Europe in monthly payments! Contact Craftours for payment details. This trip has it all – a stay at a small village as well as a bustling city so you get the best of both worlds. VACATION DETAILS I’ll…

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  • FREE MINI QUILT PATTERN

    Love to Sew? Stitch a Mini Quilt & New Designs

    Love to Sew Mini Quilt Pattern Decorate your sewing space with a Love to Sew Mini Quilt showcasing fun spools. The spools are pieced with fun sewing-themed fabrics, and then assembled into a larger thread spool motif. Add machine embroidery to some of the small spools to echo your love of sewing, using our new machine embroidery collection. The collection is available as individual designs, as a collection and delivered with purchase of our Love to Sew Machine Embroidery Palette. The palette contains the six Rayon thread spools needed to embroider all of the designs in the collection! Designed by Cherry Guidry of Cherry Blossoms Quilting, this pattern is for…

  • Halloween Treat Bag to Sew

    Treat Bag for Halloween Candies & Goodies

    Treat Bag for Halloween Night designed by Anna He, Seattle Cosplay Create a fun treat bag to decorate your home, take to the door on Halloween night or gift to trick-or-treaters. Embellish the bag with fun embroideries or personalize with a name or character to add to the fun. Grab this free pattern and get stitching! BAG STYLE The bucket style of this treat bag allows you to insert a candy bowl inside to use for handing out treats on Halloween. Leave the bowl out when taking to a party or out trick-or-treating. Swap the fabrics and designs to use this same pattern for other occasions, too! The lace ruffle…

  • costume face masks

    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…

  • sew a t-shirt

    How to Sew a T-Shirt and Add Machine Embroidery

    How to Sew a T-shirt Register for our NEW FREE Webcast with So Sew English! The Perfect Sulky Tee is a new t-shirt pattern, designed by So Sew English, with neckline, sleeve, hem and pocket variations so you can use it over and over again to create different looks. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR So Sew English joins Sulky for this free virtual event. Amanda Carita, is the owner and founder of So Sew English Fabrics (SSE). Based in Oceanside California, SSE carries a wide variety of apparel knit fabrics and ships  worldwide. Amanda, a seamstress, educator, and single mother of two is the heart and soul behind SSE. She carefully selects…

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  • World Cross-Stitch Day

    Cross-Stitch Appreciation + Fun Charts to Follow

    It’s World Cross-Stitch Day! This year marks the 8th annual World Cross-Stitch Day to bring cross-stitchers together and celebrate this great craft! To get in the spirit, find the FREE cross-stitch chart featured above on the World Cross-Stitch Day website. Gather your supplies and see how easy and fun it is to cross-stitch with Sulky 12 wt. Cotton Petites Thread. This thread is strong and pretty, with 50 yards on convenient snap spools. One strand equals two strands of traditional embroidery floss, so you have fewer strands to contend with while obtaining great coverage. THREAD ASSORTMENTS Grab a Cotton Petites Sampler to have several spools of thread that coordinate based…

  • halloween table runner

    Halloween Table Runner to Decorate Your Space with Spooky Fun

    Spooky Fun Halloween Table Runner designed by Melanie Call, a Bit of Scrap Stuff Create a Halloween table runner that’s perfect for decorating your space for spooky fun. This table runner features fussy cut Halloween motifs, but any fun fabric will do for the block creation. Note: If fussy cutting or working with a directional print, more fabric may be needed. Finished size: 17 1/2″ by 37 1/2″ Grab the instructions for this fun Halloween table runner on the quilting free projects page. Download and print them for future reference, if you like! The piecing comes together rather quickly, leaving you time to plan fun quilting designs. Choose a stippling…

  • sallie tomato scarlett plattern

    Sallie Tomato Scarlett Bag in Plums & Purples

    Sallie Tomato Scarlett Bag reimagined in plums & purples The Sallie Tomato Scarlett Bag, designed un collaboration with Sulky, is easily transformed from a casual everyday bag into a luxurious high-end bag simply by swapping the fabrics. In our Legacy Webinar, Hobo Cork Bag, we presented the Sallie Tomato Scarlett pattern in cork fabric with sparkly machine embroidery on the flap. Watch how easy it is to create a totally different bag using the same pattern! ADDITIONAL SCARLETT SUPPLIES For this version of the Sallie Tomato Scarlett bag, swap canvas fabric for the cork outer pieces. The lining is a quilting cotton in a coordinating color and the cork is…

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  • football table runner

    Football Table Runner Tutorial for Fall

    This Football Table Runner is a variation of the Touchdown Quilt pattern by Cluck Cluck Sew. It’s an intermediate level quilting pattern, further embellished with pretty quilting stitches. Finished table runner measures approximately 15 1/2″ x 44 1/2″. SUPPLIES Touchdown Quilt Pattern by Cluck Cluck Sew Neutrals & Nutshells 50 wt. Cotton Thread Assortment (12 snap spools of brown and neutral thread shades) 30wt. Cotton Blendables® Thread (featured color: Moss Medley) Sulky KK 2000™ Temporary Spray Adhesive Organ® Needles: size 70/10 Universal & 70/11 Quilting Fabrics (featured table runner includes 3 football blocks & 4 pieced borders from the featured pattern, plus 2 solid borders for the upper and lower…