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Jenny Wilding Cardon + Visible Mending: Featured Artist
Featured Artist: Jenny Wilding Cardon We’re highlighting Jenny Wilding Cardon so you can learn about how she started her quest of Visible Mending to breathe new life into worn, outdated, antique and thrifted items. All you need is a needle and thread to re-create some of her looks and mend garments, decor and accessories in an artful way. Jenny Wilding Cardon has been maneuvering the two worlds of sewing and thrifting since high school. Back then, she would design eccentric, rebellious items of clothing, and then make her friends wear them to school. After graduating from college in Utah with a degree in Women’s Studies, she spent three years with…
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Featured Artist: Stephanie Kendron of Modern Sewciety
Featured Artist: Stephanie Kendron of Modern Sewciety Podcast Learn about Stephanie Kendron and how she uses Sulky products to make her projects shine. We’re thrilled to introduce our newest Featured Artist, Stephanie Kendron. Stephanie is a fantastic sewist and the host of the Modern Sewciety podcast. If you haven’t given her podcast a listen, you REALLY should! She chats with creatives in the sewing industry, getting all the latest trends, tips, and information to inspire sewists from beginners to experts. Stephanie has been featured in magazines such as Love Patchwork & Quilting, Sew News, Modern Quilts, and Sewing World, to name a few. We had HER sit in the guest…
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Why It’s Never Too Late to Start Machine Embroidery
I met Clyde by phone about a year ago when he called with some questions about threads and stabilizers. I was so charmed by him, and we ended up talking about all kinds of things. The fact that he was 80+ years old and had just recently embarked on a computerized embroidery hobby blew me away! He kept in touch, and I asked to read his book. (Yes! He wrote a book – for his family and friends). After his wonderful book, I felt like we were friends, too. It is so unusual to meet men who embroider; and men who begin embroidery in the their 80’s are rare indeed. …
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MJ Kinman’s Diamond Quilts
“When people ask me what I do, I like to tell them I make the biggest diamonds in the world. But instead of working with the hardest substances on earth, I work with the softest… cloth.” – MJ Kinman We are honored to have MJ Kinman as our newest Sulky Featured Artist. If you haven’t gotten a chance to see her amazing work, you must check out her website! Her beautiful gem-inspired quilts are intricate and unique in every way! Her passion for quilting shows throughout every single piece she creates. Because she uses Sulky products, you may even see one of her quilts in the Sulky booth at a…
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The Crafty Gemini – Sulky’s Featured Artist
The Crafty Gemini, Vanessa Wilson The Crafty Gemini is this month’s featured artist. Vanessa Wilson frequently uses her creativity and passion to create beautiful art with Sulky products. Our current featured artist is our good friend Vanessa Wilson. Learn how Vanessa got started as the Crafty Gemini, what she likes to do and learn about her Sulky thread collection! Vanessa lives on a five-acre homestead near Gainesville, Florida with her husband and two kiddos. Raised in Miami, FL, via NYC, her ancesteral roots are in the Domincan Republic. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology and a Juris Doctor degree but she finds her center in teaching everything from sewing to…
