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Love Appliqué Bunting
Love Appliqué Bunting Valentine’s Day Décor to Sew by Hand or Machine designed by Chelsea Briner, Sew Simple Home Create a festive flag bunting featuring appliqué letters that spell out a special “love” note. Hand this up for Valentine’s Day, an anniversary celebration or birthday party. The following instructions are to sew the project by hand. Alternatively, do the appliqué and topstitching by machine for a quicker version. Use Sulky 50 wt. Cotton Thread for the machine version and a size 70/10 Universal Needle for stitching. Love Appliqué Bunting Supplies Love Bunting Templates 3 to 5 cotton fabrics (or try Sulky Felty™ for a different, no-fray look) 35” length…
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50 States Wall Hanging to Sew
50 States Wall Hanging There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays Create homey wall art to welcome family and friends and proudly display your city and state at the same time. This free pattern comes with templates for all 50 states, so you can personalize your wall hanging depending on where you (or your family) live. 50 STATES WALL HANGING REQUIREMENTS Sulky Thread 50 wt. Cotton (construction; featured color: Med Tawny Tan) 12 wt. Cotton Petites™ (hand embroidery; featured colors: Almost Black & True Red Needles 70/10 Universal Organ® Needles Hand Embroidery Needles Fabrics & Stabilizers (4) 5¼” squares of solid quilting cotton (A; matching or coordinating) (3)…
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Felt Advent Calendar with Holiday Cheer Embroidery
Felt Advent Calendar a free pattern showcasing the Holiday Cheer Hand or Machine Embroidery Collection Count the days until Christmas with a fun felt advent calendar. This pattern comes together quickly and you decide what designs to feature on the pockets! ADVENT CALENDAR DESIGN OPTIONS Opt for our Holiday Cheer Hand Embroidery Kit, which includes a digital booklet full of ten patterns and reference materials, a sheet of Sulky Felty™, printed designs on Stick ‘n Stitch, and TEN spools of Sulky Cotton petites™ Thread. Or, choose machine embroidery and grab our Holiday Cheer Machine Embroidery Collection, which contains the ten designs digitized for 40 wt. Rayon Thread. The Holiday Cheer…
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Bloom Free Pattern – Hand Embroidered Mini Quilt
Bloom (free pattern) into Spring a hand embroidered Mini Quilt designed by Aimee Davis of Daisyeyes Handmade This Bloom free pattern combines hand appliqué, hand embroidery and basic quilting techniques to create a mini quilt perfect for your spring wall décor. Download the pattern for hand embroidery and appliqué for free! Or, if desired, purchase the machine embroidery design and create your appliqué in the hoop. (Note: The design colors shown below were altered from the machine embroidery color sequence chart to match the chosen fabrics.) Bloom Free Pattern Requirements Hand Embroidery Supplies Embroidery hoop (10″ or larger is best) Hand embroidery needle Small scissors Water-soluble pen Sulky Stick ‘n…
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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…
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Free-Motion Quilting for Beginners & More
Free-Motion Quilting 101 Free-motion quilting is an often intimidating subject for many quilters. Just the thought of lowering the feed dogs of the sewing machine can put people in a panic! Read on to discover some great resources for free-motion quilting and have confidence to create your first free-motion quilt. WHAT IS FREE-MOTION QUILTING? Anytime you hear or read the term “free-motion,” this means you are moving the fabric between the presser foot and feed dogs. You are in control of the movement of the fabric, whether that is slow or fast, in any direction. Yes, any direction: side to side, backwards, forwards! The speed in which you move the…
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Boho Bonnie Bag Live Videocast with Sulky
Boho Bonnie Bag a LIVE STREAMING Videocast! Join us on March 9, 2021 at 2pm ET for the Boho Bonnie Bag Videocast! This is a “Lounge and Learn” event in partnership with the American Sewing Expo and we’re excited to bring you this new exclusive bag pattern with loads of high-end details. You don’t have to be a member of the American Sewing Guild to attend, but we encourage you to check it out! BONNIE PATTERN PARTICULARS The Bonnie Bag has been designed by Sallie Tomato in collaboration with Sulky of America. This large carryall has lots of pockets, comfortable shoulder straps, and a roomy interior so you can carry…
