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  • Muffin Appliqué Placemat

    Muffin Appliqué Placemat

    April 28, 2025 /

    MUFFIN APPLIQUÉ PLACEMAT Designed by Renate Bieber Create a pieced muffin appliqué placemat with or without a cherry on top. This placemat makes a great addition to a Mother’s Day brunch, birthday soiree and more! Finished size: 11 ½” x 16 ½” MUFFIN PLACEMAT SUPPLIES Muffin Appliqué Templates Sulky 50 wt. Cotton Thread (appliqué & construction) Sulky 30 wt. Cotton Thread (quilting) Sulky Perfect Appliqué™ Fusible Web Organ® size 80/12 & 90/14 Universal Needles Sulky KK2000™ Temporary Spray Adhesive Low-loft batting Fabrics 1/3 yard each of three coordinating fabrics (fabric 1, 2 & 3) (2) coordinating fabric remnants (muffin appliqué) CUTTING & PREP Fabric 1 (white): cut one 4 ¾”…

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  • free-motion quilting for beginners session

    Free-Motion for Beginners – Quilting Session

    February 24, 2024 /

    FREE-MOTION FOR BEGINNERS Drop those feed dogs and join us for a free-motion journey! This on-demand Session activates March 12, 2024. Reserve your spot today! With this extensive Session, you’ll tackle your free-motion fear and finish your own quilts and quilty projects with decorative thread painting, stippling, meandering and more. You’ll learn how to use your home sewing machine and set it up for successful stitching in order to accommodate larger pieces and quilt thicknesses. Learn the differences between thread weights and types so you can choose the right one for your project. Plus, get expert instruction on how to begin and end a stitching line, maintain consistent stitch length and much, much more. Plus, Ellen March will take you through…

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  • Valentine Mug Rug

    Valentine Mug Rug with Machine Embroidery

    January 19, 2024 /

    Valentine Mug Rug A Valentine Mug Rug makes a great gift for “gal-entine’s” day, and also makes for cute décor during the month of February and beyond. Choose from one of our Cup of Tea Machine Embroidery designs, and grab a thread palette to have all the threads needed for this cute project. Valentine Mug Rug Supplies Sulky Soft ‘n Sheer™ Stabilizer Cup of Tea Machine Embroidery Palette (includes 10 spools of Sulky Rayon Thread and six machine embroidery designs in 3 sizes; featured design: Love You More) Sulky Thread 50 wt. Cotton Thread (construction) 30 wt. Cotton Blendables® (quilting) 60 wt. Bobbin Thread (embroidery) Organ® Needles size 90/14 Embroidery…

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  • Quilted Garden Flag with Machine Embroidery

    May 12, 2022 /

    Quilted Garden Flag Stitch a springy quilted garden flag to display with your emerging flowers and veggies. This festive flag features machine embroidery, tiny piecing and quilting. If you don’t have a flag stake, the project easily converts to a wall hanging. Finished size: 11 1/2″ x 17 1/2″ GARDEN FLAG SUPPLIES Spring Garden Flag Pattern (it’s free!) Sulky Soft ’n Sheer™ Extra Stabilizer Sulky Soft ’n Sheer™ Stabilizer Low-loft cotton or polyester batting Fabric 1 fat quarter of solid cotton fabric (such as Kona® Cotton) 12” x 24” rectangle of print cotton fabric (backing) (2) 2” x 24” rectangles of floral print cotton fabric (petal piecing) ¼ yard of…

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    Free-Motion Quilting for Beginners & More

    March 18, 2021 /

    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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  • Fluffy Kitty with Filaine

    Create a Filaine Fluffy Kitty with Fun Free-Motion Techniques

    April 9, 2020 /

    Filaine Fluffy Kitty by Bonnie Langenfeld Create a Filaine fluffy kitty using free-motion embroidery techniques. When making this project you will learn how to use fabrics for background color fill, use Sulky® Filaine thread to create beautiful life-like fur, and attach the image to a background of your choice.  Finished Kitty is about 10″ high. Fluffy Kitty Supply List Sulky™ Filaine Brush Sulky 12 wt. Filaine thread #864-1000 White #864-1001 Black #864-3327 Med. Dark Gray #864-3977 Dark Whisper Gray Sulky 40 wt. Poly Deco thread in black, medium gray and white (for bobbins and details) Organ 90/14 Top Stitch needles Sewing machine with free motion or darning foot, feed dogs…

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    Free-Motion Maple Leaf Embroidery + a Free Project for Fall

    October 12, 2019 /

    Give this Free-Motion Maple Leaf Embroidery a Try! Is it a free-motion maple leaf or a thread painted maple leaf? Sulky uses these terms somewhat interchangeably. However, thread painting is a more detailed representation of the work. Notice the layers of colors and shading put into this maple leaf, using only thread!  It is done by free-motion stitching, but the technique really is thread painting. You can learn both techniques with this free project. Plus, you’ll thread-sketch a free-motion maple leaf that’s as pretty from the fabric front as the fabric back. Switch the bobbin thread color each time you switch thread colors to make the project reversible. This work…

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  • Sapphire Quilt Block Sew Along

    September Sapphire Block Sew-Along + Mini Gemstone Quilt

    September 17, 2019 /

    Join the September Sapphire Sew-Along! Make the September Sapphire block, designed by MJ Kinman, and comment below with your process, tips and/or finished result to participate in this month’s sew-along. September Sapphire Block Pattern This September Sapphire block pattern is a paper-piecing pattern that comes preprinted onto freezer paper. The paper is fusible yet leaves no residue, and is easily repositioned and removed. If you want to make multiples of these blocks, you can transfer the key, also included, onto Sulky Paper Solvy. The finished block measures 17″ square and can be combined with other MJ Birthstone blocks to make a stunning quilt or mini quilt, which is what I’m…

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  • Paper Pieced Apple Mug Rug

    August 10, 2019 /

    Paper Pieced Apple Mug Rug by Vicki Holloway Create a paper pieced apple mug rug to gift to a new teacher. Or make a set of four using coordinating apple-print fabrics as a hostess gift.   Size: 5″ square SUPPLIES Sulky Paper Solvy Cotton + Steel Thread (colors to match fabrics) Cotton fabric scraps (such as a bright apple color, a light or white background color & brown for the stem) 5 1/2″ square each of batting & backing Point turner, chopstick or blunt knitting needle Apple Mug Rug Pattern Foundation Paper Piecing Print the Paper Pieced Apple Mug Rug foundation paper piecing pattern onto a sheet of Sulky Paper…

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  • Farther's Day Gift

    Father’s Day Gift to Sew & Give: Free-Motion Hand Print Tie

    June 13, 2019 /

    Need a quick Father’s Day gift? Jazz up the standard tie gift with free-motion stitching using your child’s hand print. This up-cycling project starts with a standard tie straight from the closet or thrift store and makes it a keepsake that dad can wear to work on the daily. Trace the child’s hand on the tie and refashion it by free-motion stitching around the hand print. Use Sulky Tear-Easy stabilizer to keep the tie from stretching out as you sew. The full instructions come from Heather at heatherhandmade.com. From Heather I love sewing, up-cycling, and refashion, and I share that love when I teach others how to sew with sewing…

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