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Make a Halloween Quilt with Applique Embroidery Designs
A Halloween quilt is a great home-decor project that serves many purposes! Throw it over the couch to cozy up with; hang it on the wall to display a festive vibe; bundle up little ones in their strollers on Halloween night. The quilt size is great to comfort kids, gift as a lap quilt or even pamper your pet’s bed. Constructed by strip piecing, the Cuddle fabric by Shannon Fabrics is like butter to sew. With our convenient kit, you won’t even have to contend with cutting it, either! Thee strips are ready to sew and embroider, complete with stabilizers and six spools of high-quality Sulky rayon thread. Halloween Quilt…
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Create a Vintage Picnic Quilt for National Picnic Month
Pack yourself a picnic and tote a vintage-inspired picnic quilt to celebrate National Picnic month! This quilt pattern is simple to construct, yet impressive at the finish. I started with the Sulky Chevron Quilt tutorial and gave it a vintage vibe with my fabric and thread choice. SUPPLIES 1 1/2 yards of orange fabric 1 1/2 yards of vintage-vibe cotton print fabric 2 1/2 yards of coordinating cotton fabric (backing) Twin size batting Easy Angle Ruler™ Sulky® PolyLite™ thread for piecing Sulky Filaine thread for long-arm quilting Sulky KK 2000™ Temporary Spray Adhesive Vintage-style picnic basket (for storage & toting food & utensils) VINTAGE INSPIRED FABRIC CHOICE Something about packing a…
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“Raven Captures the Sun” Art Quilt
“Raven Captures the Sun” Art Quilt by Chris Eichner Did you know that according to an ancient legend, the solar eclipse occurs when a Raven “captures” the sun? This legend became the inspiration for Chris Eichner – Fiber Artist, Designer, and Sulky Certified Teacher – and her award-winning art quilt “The Raven Captures the Sun”. “The quilt originated from a challenge to ‘Thread Heads’, which is a group of fiber artists that I’m a member of in Seneca, South Carolina. We were asked by Duke Energy Nuclear Power Plant to create art quilts for display for the month of August, which would represent the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017.” says…
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Free Webinar: Holiday In-the-Hoop
Free Webinar: Holiday In-the-Hoop Embroidery Quilt Block Projects & More with Lisa Archer Join us for this FREE webinar: Holiday In-the-Hoop! Lisa Archer, Owner & Creative Director of Pickle Pie Designs, will teach you how fast, fun and easy it is to make machine embroidery in-the-hoop projects. Lisa is the master when it comes to in-the-hoop projects, and she will share her tips and tricks for success. She will explain the purpose of each step of an in-the-hoop project as she walks you through the process of making a whimsical Snowman Coaster entirely in the hoop. That’s right, no machine sewing required! Get the details: Title: Holiday In-the-Hoop…
