-
Pillow of the Month: How to Make a Trapunto Pillow
Pillow of the Month: Trapunto Pillow by Pamela Cox Continuing on our Pillow of the Month series, we’ll learn how to make a trapunto pillow using two methods. Trapunto is a hand-stitching technique in which designated areas within an embroidered pattern are stuffed, producing raised areas. The Trapunto effect is easily mimicked using an embroidery machine. Special collections digitized to copy a Trapunto 3-D effect are available on many embroidery sites. However, when learning how to make a Trapunto pillow, you may be surprised to find suitable designs already in your personal design library. Line designs, especially those with large open spaces, work well imitating Trapunto when stitched over a…
-
Embroider a Pillowcase for Memory Care Patients
Learn how to embroider a pillowcase with our free pattern, plus donate it to a charity of your choice. We’re focusing our charity sewing effort on Memory Care facilities this month, and partnered with a facility to provide them with personalized pillowcases for their residents. If you’d like to join our effort and embroider a pillowcase, comment on this post and we’ll provide you with a name of a resident and mailing instructions for your pillowcase. This partnership will end March 16, 2019. After that time, or in lieu of participating in our effort, please contact a facility in your neighborhood and ask if they’d take pillowcase donations. Or embroider a…
-
Top 10 Machine Embroidery Projects to Make & Give
Top 10 Machine Embroidery Projects To further celebrate National Embroidery Month, here are 10 machine embroidery projects that you can create for yourself or as gifts. These machine embroidery projects are fun ways to practice your skills and use your fabric (and design) stash. Sewing Patches Tote Show your sewing pride with these fun machine embroidery patches, made using Sulky 30 wt. Cotton Thread. Get the full tutorial and designs on Sew4Home’s blog. Sunflower Wallet This fun embroidered sunflower wallet is by Pam Damour and was introduced in our free webinar. Grab the kit, which includes everything you need to make your own – simply add the coordinating fabrics of…
-
Planning a Wedding? Here are 3 DIY Wedding Ideas
DIY Wedding Ideas Happy Valentine’s Day! Since Love is in the air today, we thought we would show you some cool DIY wedding trends that we are in love with ourselves. 35 Ways To Use Embroidery Hoops This blog post is full of great DIY ideas that are simple and elegant. These Quilts over Hay Bails for Guest Seating What an amazing display of love and heritage! This Custom Wedding Portrait Nothing marks the special day better than a personalized handmade gift. This custom wedding portrait is a piece of art from Daisyeyes.com and is the perfect way to mark the day and the beginning of an amazing journey. Order…
-
How to Make a Quilt Label with Machine Embroidery
How to Make a Quilt Label with Machine Embroidery Planning the Quilt Label Adding a quilt label to a quilt gift is a great way to add a personal touch and provide information to future generations. If you’ve wanted to learn how to make a quilt label, first decide on the design. Add just a name, a message or simply a design with initials. Make the label as big or as small as you like. I always add a quilt label after the construction is complete. I hand stitch it to the back of the quilt along the lower-left corner. I didn’t intend to have a “signature quilt label” when…
-
Top 5 No Sew Valentines to Make & Give
No SEW? No WAY! No sew Valentines to Make & Give No-sew Valentines are great gift options when you’re running short on time. We’re going a bit beyond stickers and construction paper to bring you 5 no-sew valentines day gifts to give to teachers, neighbors, friends and family. Valentine’s Day is the perfect holiday to get crafty and show your love with fabric and thread. These no-sew valentines day gifts are easily made with minimal materials and minimal time, yet the effort still shows! Give someone a warm fuzzy feeling with one or all of these no-sew valentine gift ideas. Make sure to create a simple card to go with…
-
Hand Embroidered Valentine’s Day Cards
How To Make Hand Embroidered Valentine’s Day Cards For Your Loved Ones Making hand embroidered Valentine’s Day cards is a great way to say I Love You with stitches. This project is easy enough for beginners, children included, and fun for everyone! Honestly, I don’t care if it’s a made up holiday or not, I LOVE VALENTINE’S DAY! How could I not? It’s all about love and romance and a great excuse to decorate and sew with all my favorite things: Pink, Red, Hearts, and more Hearts. I have already started making heart-shaped muffins for my family to enjoy at breakfast and, this weekend, we will make a heart-shaped cake.…
-
Learn How to Make an In-the-Hoop Scissor Case
In-the-Hoop Scissor Case Join Sulky and Allison Nash of Sweet Pea Machine Embroidery for a FREE 1-hour webcast teaching you how to create an In-the-Hoop Scissor Case. This in-the-hoop embroidered scissor zipper case is the perfect size to keep any pair of scissors safe and sound in your sewing room. The design comes in two sizes and only requires one hooping. The case is lined with no raw seams and a thick tip to prevent the scissors from cutting through the bottom of the case. It is a quick, easy project to make – and the perfect gift! Join Us Live: Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 Time: 9:00 pm EST…
-
Machine Embroidery Basics + Tools for Success
Machine Embroidery Basics It’s National Embroidery Month, and to kick things off we want to make sure you’re set up for machine embroidery success with these machine embroidery basics. Computerized embroidery may seem intimidating, but it’s actually one of the easiest embellishment techniques to do. The machine does most of the work for you–all you have to do is make sure you have the right tools at your fingertips and the right combination of supplies for the fabric you’re using. Sometimes it takes a bit of trial and error, which is one of the reasons we’re here. We want to make sure you have the resources you need to embroider…
-
Instant Pot Cover 4: Free Pattern + Recipe
Free Instant Pot Cover Pattern In the final installment of our Instant Pot Cover blog hop, Stephanie Kendron of Modern Sewciety wrapped it up with a perfectly modern quilted Instant Pot cover. Stephanie used our Free Instant Pot Cover Pattern to make her cover – along with orphan blocks, Cotton + Steel Thread by Sulky®, Sulky Fuse ‘n Stitch™, and her Janome Skyline S9. Check out her blog post here. Instant Pot Soup Recipe To round out National Soup Month, Stephanie calls this vegetable soup recipe “Magic”, and from the looks of it, we think she may be right! She suggests adding mushrooms, brussel sprouts and any other favorite veggies to make this soup…
