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Cinco de Mayo Embroidery on Cute Tea Towels
Cinco de Mayo Embroidery is much easier with Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy! These tea towels are lightweight and crinkly, but the embroidery is easy–even easier than making a bowl of guacamole. Arm yourself with the right products and you’ll have no problems stitching these fun towels with ease. Supplies Sulky Sticky + Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy Sulky rayon threads (colors determined by design) Tea Towel blank How to Do the Cinco de Mayo Embroidery Choose a design you like. Avocados, tacos, margaritas, limes, cilantro bundles–these are all great tea towel designs appropriate for Cinco de Mayo embroidery. The featured design is called Holy Guacamole by Concord Collections. It comes in one size…
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Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy to the Rescue: Fixing Damaged Clothing
Eric Drexler, Sulky® National Educator, and Grandpa Extraordinaire came to the rescue for his granddaughter recently. He was kind enough to share his super fix with all of us: You know with four granddaughters there will be lots of damaged clothing. I was presented with this the other day. Where the two rows of lace had separated, I used a strip of Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy™ on the back of it to hold it together while I was sewing, because I didn’t want anything visible when I finished. It did a great job holding and all I had to do was put a little Sewer’s Aid on the needle and make sure…
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Valentine’s Day DIY – Free Pattern Download
I love Valentine’s Day! I have friends that hate it. They say it’s a made-up holiday that forces people to buy useless stuff for people. But I personally think it is so much fun. Maybe it’s the hippie-chic in me…but any day that is focused on telling people you love and appreciate them is a good day in my mind. It also doesn’t hurt that all colors in the red to pink family are my favorites! This year Valentine’s Day is on a Saturday so I expect that I will make heart shaped muffins for breakfast for my family. Here is a quick and easy recipe. I will also give…
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Introducing 16 Sulky Cotton Blendables thread to the Petites line!
Although I am super excited about the 64 new Cotton Color threads Sulky is introducing, I am equally excited that we are adding 16 of our most popular Sulky Blendables thread to the Sulky Cotton Petites thread line! Yes, that’s right, more Petites! If you do hand embroidery at all, the Sulky Cotton Petites thread are a must. They are 12 wt. cotton thread on a 50 yard snap end spool. Do you realize what that means? No more separating floss! No more tangles thread and no more loosing the end of thread since it will always be safely tucked into the snap end. I am not over exaggerating when…
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Halloween Hand Embroidery with Free Pattern
A few weeks back I was browsing through Pinterest and came across these adorable free printables created by Ashley Foster, the owner of Fancy Designs. I love these! They are so whimsical and fun. I thought they would make a wonderful pattern for hand embroidery so I contacted Ashley. I asked her permission to manipulate the pictures and turn them into hand embroidery patterns. She said yes! Don’t worry, I have a link at the end of this post so you can download the patterns for free. Once I created the pattern, I printed them onto Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy and stuck them to the front of the fabrics…
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This Halloween, Sulky Stick ‘n Carve Will Save The Day
I went into a craft store the other day and noticed that the Halloween decorations and items are already out. We love Halloween at our house! The decorations, the candy, the costumes and we have a family tradition to carve a pumpkin together every year. Up until this year, I have been on a campaign to get rid of this tradition. I have tried for years to skip it because, quite frankly, it is so much work! First there is the scraping out of the yucky slimy seeds, then trying to find a pattern to carve on the pumpkin that I can actually do that doesn’t look like like a blindfolded…
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Hand Embroidery Made Super Easy
I have found one common denominator with most crafty people; we like to keep our hands busy at all times! I love to work on hand embroidery projects while I watch TV or riding in the car. It makes me feel more productive and keeps me from snacking. Not to toot my own horn, but I am a pretty good hand embroiderer. My stitches are fairly even; I always tie off before moving to another section and a can do a great stem stitch (I will teach you my secret, it is a quick tip that you will love). Although I liked hand embroidery, I didn’t love it for 2…
