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Denim Embroidery Digs – Tips, Tricks & Takeaways
Denim Embroidery Tips for Machine Embroidery on Denim Garments Denim embroidery is striking, colorful and just plain fun. Denim is a great canvas for embroidery designs because it’s a stable, heavyweight fabric that can take a lot of stitches without puckering, buckling or show-through. Here’s how to prepare your denim, jeans, jean jackets and more for machine embroidery. DESIGN CHOICE There are loads of great choices for denim embroidery. Choose designs with lots of fill stitches, dense stitching and even appliqué embroidery designs. Steer clear of line-art style designs, unless they’re digitized for heavyweight threads. These designs are easily lost in the heavyweight fabric fibers and you’ll want the embroidery…
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Heart Bookmark with Conver”sew”tion Heart Embroidery
Heart Bookmark with Sulky Conver”sew”tion Heart Embroidery These heart bookmark corners make great Valentine’s Day gifts. Personalize them with the Sulky Conver”sew”tion Heart machine embroidery designs, in either the “modern” or “traditional” style. The full embroidery collection includes 20 designs (10 of each style), or purchase only the modern or traditional style. The Machine Embroidery Palette includes all 20 designs and 10 spools of Sulky Rayon Thread needed to stitch out the collection. This makes a great kid’s craft to keep little ones busy during winter break from school, too! Have them choose the embroidery design and teach them to construct the final step with blanket stitches done by hand.…
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Porch Pillows for Summer Nights
Patriotic Porch Pillows Spend summer nights outdoors with decorative porch pillows. This pillow featured our Summer Nights machine embroidery design, part of our Uncle Sam Machine Embroidery Collection. The design is modified to include vinyl and fabric appliqués for a fun design element. Note that the featured design is NOT an appliqué design, but modified as such. PORCH PILLOWS SUPPLIES *Supplies listed are enough to make one 14″ square pillow. Uncle Sam Machine Embroidery Palette (includes 11 spools of Sulky Rayon & Poly Sparkle Thread and the Uncle Sam Machine Embroidery Collection; featured design is Uncle Sam: Summer Nights) Sulky Stiffy™ Stabilizer Organ® Needles: size 80/12 Top Stitch Sulky 40…
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Quilted Flower Pillow with Dimensional Floral Embroidery
Quilted Flower Pillow with Sulky Pollen Designs designed by Cherry Guidry, Cherry Blossoms Quilting Create a quilted flower pillow featuring “Pollen” machine embroidery designs by Sulky. The designs feature Sulky Filaine™ Thread, which “blooms” when brushed with a Filaine™ Wire Brush, creating fuzzy texture that looks like the flowers come to life. Quilted Pillow Finished size: 12” x 22” PILLOW SUPPLIES Pollen Machine Embroidery Design Collection (featured designs: Cosmo, Poppy & Gerbera Daisy) Sulky Thread: Rayon 40 wt. & 12 wt. Filaine (colors per the embroidery design sequence charts), Bobbin 60 wt. white, 60 wt. PolyLite Filaine Wire Brush Stiffy™ Tear-Away Stabilizer Organ® Needles: Piecing: 70/10 Universal Embroidery – 80/12…
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Mug Rug for St. Patrick’s Day to Embroider & Give
Mug Rug for St. Patrick’s Day A mug rug for St. Patrick’s Day is the perfect cozy place to rest your morning coffee (or afternoon hot toddy) and celebrate this fun holiday. This mug rug measures 6″ x 9″, so it also works as a small wall hanging to hang above your coffee station or bar cart. Make a mug rug for St. Patrick’s Day for yourself and one for a friend, and gift it over a cup of morning joe. MUG RUG SUPPLIES 8″ x 10″ rectangle of high-quality felt, such as Sulky Felty™ (coming soon!) Sulky Stiffy™ Stabilizer 6″ x 9″ rectangle of insulated batting, such as Insul-Brite™…
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Cup of Tea Catchall – Free Pattern & New Design Collection Debut
Cup of Tea Catchall Package gift items neatly in a personalized felt box. Add fun machine embroidery to the inside of the box that complements the gift and/or the recipient’s interests. The featured Best-Teas Forever design is from the Cup of Tea Machine Embroidery Collection, available individually; as part of the collection of 6 designs in 3 sizes; or packaged with the Cup of Tea Thread Palette, which includes 10 spools of Sulky Rayon Thread. CUP OF TEA CATCHALL PATTERN DETAILS The Cup of Tea Catchall Pattern is a digital pattern, delivered to your sulky.com account. Add it to your cart and go through the checkout process (it will say…
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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…
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Mini Quilt for St. Patrick’s Day with Machine Embroidery
St. Patrick’s Mini Quilt with Machine Embroidery designed by Melanie Call Create a St. Patrick’s mini quilt to display on your door or wall to bring a little luck into your life! This St. Patrick’s quilt featured machine embroidery in the center block, but hand embroidery or free-motion quilting is just as pretty as the focal point. Grab the Luck ‘O the Irish Poly Sparkle 6-pack of threads and choose an openwork embroidery design to add hints of metallic to the piece. Sulky 30 wt. Blendables™ thread is great for adding different colors to the quilting stitches, too. You’ll be able to complete this mini quilt in no time! It…
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Sew Along Party for New Year’s Eve 2021
Sew Along Party with Sulky & Sallie Tomato We’re ringing in the new year with Sallie Tomato, and you’re invited, too! Sew Along Party Details Join us December 31st at 8pm EST. This is a four-hour streaming sew along party that will take you all the way to midnight! We’ll work through a brand new Sallie Tomato bag pattern, Zelda, inspired by the Roaring Twenties theme. Each hour of the sew along party, we’ll give away a fantastic door prize, too! Not only will you end the evening with a finished project, but you have the chance to win the GRAND PRIZE at midnight, an Amber Air 400 S serger…
