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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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    Sewing Machine Cover for Spring Cleaning Your Sewing Space

    April 8, 2021 /

    Sewing Machine Cover FREE PROJECT Create a sewing machine cover (or serger cover) to protect your precious machine and tidy up your sewing space for spring. Consider grabbing some more supplies to clean and oil your machine; take it for a “spa” (or service) day; clean your iron soleplate; and re-organize your fabric stash to refresh your creativity. Project Details Add a pocket to the front of the cover to hold your favorite pair of scissors or quilting ruler (or both!). The pocket is the perfect place for embellishment, such as hand or machine embroidery. The instructions in the PDF guide you through the machine embroidery steps; however, you can…

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    Decorative Thread for Serging – National Serger Month Kickoff

    March 31, 2020 /

    Decorative Thread for Serging It’s National Serger Month! Using decorative thread for serging in the loopers (and even needles) transforms your serger from functional to decorative, thereby expanding the capabilities you have with your serger. To kickoff national Serger Month, we’ll dive into the fun threads you can use with your serger to breathe new life into your projects. The Baby Lock Triumph serger, shown above, is fresh out of the box, just waiting to test out all sorts of fun threads! SULKY POLY DECO™ FOR SERGING Even if your seams are functional, rather than decorative, you can still change up the thread colors and showcase a different color for…

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    Karlee Porter’s Favorite Threads for Quilting

    March 26, 2020 /

    Favorite Threads for Quilting by Karlee Porter Award-winning quilter Karlee Porter shares her favorite threads for quilting. Learn more about Karlee in our free on-demand webinar, Hand Lettered Quilting. And look for our Hand Lettered Quilting kit to make memorable postcards to send to loved ones. from Karlee: When I first started quilting, the first thread that I had on hand were these very old cones that were from Walmart. When it comes to thread, especially for quilting, you get what you pay for. Not only did I find that this thread didn’t hold up very well, but I often had tension problems while trying to quilt with it. On…

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  • The Girl Scout Pillowcase + Giving Back

    March 13, 2019 /

    Continuing our monthly Pillowcases for People in Need charity effort, we’re bringing you ideas for introducing sewing to others while giving back: the Girl Scout Pillowcase. Organizing a pillowcase sew-a-thon with your local guild, teaching a neighbor or child to sew a pillowcase or helping a Girl Scout troop earn their badges while doing good–these are all great ideas for spreading the love of sewing while helping those in need. So, what are you waiting for? Pop on some educational songs for children from the KLS YouTube channel and get stuck into this fantastic learning opportunity. Girl Scout Pillowcase Some of my favorite memories from childhood are from Girl Scouts.…

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