Quilting Arts TV

Joyce Drexler, Co-Founder and Creative Director for Sulky of America, and Pokey Bolton, host of Quilting Arts TV, show some of the project samples that Joyce brought to the show.

Joyce introduces a twist to the ever-popular wrapped-cord technique. Using clothesline, Joyce shows a square version of the technique that was designed by Nancy Sapin, a Sulky National Educator. She also shows how to make your favorite feature fabric the center of the square. So often you have a fabric that you love but once you wrap it, it doesn't show off the feature that inspired you to buy it. With this square technique you see the fabric clearly. Joyce shows how to make the square base (or rectangular base if you prefer) using Sulky Fuse 'n Stitch Permanent Iron-On Stabilizer to make a smooth finish to the corded center. She then adds one of her beautiful embroideries from her Great Notions Fern Card #3020GNP (available through www.speedstitch.com). Joyce shows you the trick to making a beautiful finished end so that your square shape remains pure.

It's quick and easy to make trivets, coasters, placemats, bowls, and more. You can easily make a whole coordinated set to match your décor, or for holidays and birthdays (possibly a set for the special birthday person at the table). It's even fun to do with "manly" fabrics for the men in your life. Joyce shows how to use Sulky Cotton Blendables to enhance the project with beautiful stitching.

The Santa Bowl to the right is another of Nancy Sapin's creations. Doesn't it make you want to get started on Christmas already?!

For quilters, take the scraps from your latest quilt and make a matching bowl or box in which to put jewelry and odds 'n ends on a table by the bed. There! You already have a matching gift for the next occasion.

This technique is addictive! Bet you can't make just one!

Jeanne Cook-Delpit, Director of National Events for Bernina of America, on the set of Quilting Arts TV, showing how easy it is to make a beautiful bowl using Sulky Blendables on a Bernina!

If you are ever unable to find any of the Sulky Products or put-ups that you are looking for locally, there are 2 Mail Order/On-Line sources that have, in stock, every Product and Put-up that Sulky makes. They are www.speedstitch.com - 1-866-829-7235 and www.uncommonthread.com - 1-877-294-5427.

IN 2009 - BECAUSE YOU ASKED FOR IT...
"SULKY TECHNIQUES GALORE AND MORE!"

Each year, for the last 14 years, Sulky's highly skilled, National Educators have taught (face-to-face) upwards of 100,000 consumers about Sulky products and techniques at Sulky "Sew Exciting"™ Seminars in retail stores and at up to 45 major consumer shows all across the country.

Through the years, Sulky has educated countless consumers by being a major co-sponsor of 8 National PBS TV Sewing Shows, with Sulky products being used and shown on most segments of:

America Sews with Sue Hausmann Martha's Sewing Room - Martha Pullen Sew Creative & Quilts Central - Donna Wilder Quilting from the Heartland - Sharlene Jorgenson Needle Arts Studio - Shay Pendray Quilting with Fons & Porter Kaye's Quilting Friends - Kaye Wood Quilting Arts TV - Patricia Bolton

For many years you have seen Sulky's full-page ads in numerous issues of
these 14 consumer magazines:

Sew News	Sewing Savvy
Quilters Newsletter	Quilting Arts
Sew Beautiful	Embroidery Journal
Quiltmaker	Quick & Easy Quilting
Creative Machine Embroidery	Designs in Machine Embroidery
McCall's Quilting	Creative Needle
Quilters Home	ASG Notions

Sulky educates through its very active website that features frequent, new, FREE projects, answers to frequently asked questions, and great consumer service through asksulky@sulky.com. A monthly e-mail consumer newsletter updates consumers on new products, programs and educational opportunities.

Sulky educates by publishing dynamic, timely books that have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. For 10 years, Sulky educated by conducting an annual "Sulky Challenge" Contest that each year awarded up to $70,000 in cash and prizes, and resulted in 5 Sulky Challenge Traveling Collections that were annually seen by hundreds of thousands of consumers.

So, 2009 is the year to join us in our long-standing commitment to creative sewing education. It can be the answer for you and your family right now, for your future, and for our future generations to come. Get more information about the current Sulky Certified Training Classes at sulky.com including pictures of the projects and project descriptions. It will be our pleasure to help you have fun and succeed.

The 3-Day Sulky® Certified Teacher Training Program is only $499 and it includes:

• Instruction by highly skilled, enthusiastic, National Educators
• 3 Days of Sewing and Business Education
• Hundreds of dollars in Sulky Merchandise
• Certification Manual with Comprehensive Lesson Plans
• Reproducible Class Handouts
• Fabric and Supplies to complete 15 Classroom Samples
• Free Lunch for 3 days
• An official Sulky Certified Teacher Certificate of Completion

Sign up with a Friend or acquaintance at the same time for one of the 2009 Series locations and you'll each receive a $50 Sulky merchandise voucher which you can use to purchase your favorite Sulky sewing products at training!

Sulky Certified Teacher Alumni: Receive a $100 Sulky Merchandise Voucher when you sign up and attend this new, motivating course curriculum. Be sure to mention you are a Sulky Certified Teacher Alumni during sign-up!

THE 2009 CURRICULUM...

BECAUSE YOU ASKED FOR IT...

"SULKY TECHNIQUES GALORE AND MORE!"

Our best Teacher Certification yet! You will learn all the most exciting sewing techniques in the industry today for use in your projects and/or teaching curriculum. This event promises to be even more fun than ever before. Three days will be packed full of fun and creativity that will motivate you for years to come! Most of the techniques will be turned into quick, easy finished projects, and there will be samples galore on using these techniques in other finished projects. You will come away from this program "SEW EXCITED". Join us for the most fun you can legally have in 3 days!

Whether you want to begin a career as a sewing teacher or advance your sewing career, the Sulky Teacher Certification Training program is designed to enhance your success. New classes are offered each year, so you'll have the most up-to-date teaching skills. You'll learn how to use the newest products, how to teach the most popular creative machine art techniques and develop beautiful, inspiring samples, not to mention have lots of fun! And maybe it's just time to do something creative and educational for YOU because you deserve it! Lots of people attend just for the fun of it! Join us!

If you've dreamed about attending one of these events, this is the one you don't want to miss!

For descriptions and additional photos of the upcoming projects, visit our website at sulky.com

Locations and Dates

Apr, 2009
04/02 - 04/04	Lakeland, FL Holiday Inn Lakeland Hotel & Conference Center	Educator - Ellen Osten
May, 2009
05/01 - 05/03	Phoenix, AZ Hilton Garden Inn Phoenix Airport	Educator - Lee Fletcher
05/01 - 05/03	Bloomington, MN Park Plaza Hotel	Educator - Linda Simmons
Jun, 2009
06/03 - 06/05	Providence, RI Sheraton Providence Airport	Educator - Ellen Osten
Sep, 2009
09/11 - 09/13	Denver, CO Red Lion Hotel	Educator - Pat Welch
09/25 - 09/27	Sacramento, CA Hawthorne Suites Hotel	Educator - Lee Fletcher
Oct, 2009
10/09 - 10/11	Portland, OR Country Inn & Suites Hotel	Educator - Linda Simmons
10/09 - 10/11	Columbus, OH Courtyard by Marriott	Educator - Pat Welch
Nov, 2009
11/18 - 11/20	Kennesaw, GA Hilton Garden Inn	Educators Ellen Osten Nancy Sapin
	* Includes a tour of the Sulky warehouse. Almost filled for 2009! * Special evening class by Loralie - Sneak preview of 2010!

SPECIAL BONUS EVENT AT THE KENNESAW, GA, LOCATION ONLY

Loralie Harris, creator of the wonderful, whimsical Loralie computerized embroidery designs, will be attending the Kennesaw, GA, event, and teaching a special class featuring one of her new FashionNette™ techniques one evening during this Sulky Certified Teacher Training Event. This is a sneak-peak into the 2010 curriculum.
Don't wait - these dates (11/18 - 11/20) are nearly filled already!

Note: This special optional class fee is NOT included in the $499 Sulky Certified Teacher tuition.

What is FashioNette?

In the words of Loralie... FashioNette is fun and easy to do with a speedy result - fresh and new for your apparel, your quilt, in the hall, on the bed, in the album, window or wall! Great for the bath or in the kitchen, too. At the wedding or in the nursery! You'll love this stitchin'! For novice or expert - FashionNette is for you!

Fashionette combines embroidery, appliqué and beading with surprising fabrics and unorthodox techniques to produce a whole new medium for creative expression.

We are thrilled to have Loralie as our featured guest at this event.

www.loraliedesigns.com

DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY - SIGN UP TODAY!

To sign up or to learn more about any of these events, contact:

Cathy: 800-874-4115, Ext. 161 (events west of the Mississippi) Cathy.pope@sulky.com

Or Michelle: 800-874-4115, Ext. 176 (events east of the Mississippi) Michelle.perez@sulky.com

Upcoming Sulky Consumer Shows

Here is a complete listing of all of the upcoming consumer shows where Sulky will be exhibiting.

Be sure to sign up at the Sulky booth for a chance to win a door prize.

RECENT WINNERS:

Gayle Hawthorne - Sedona AZ
Congratulations on winning the Sulky door prize drawing during the recent Phoenix Craft & Sewing Fest in Phoenix AZ.

Nancy Campbell - Kennesaw GA
Congratulations on winning the Sulky door prize drawing during the recent OSQE show in Duluth GA.

Lori Allaire - Upland, CA
Congratulations on winning the Sulky door prize drawing during the recent Road to California in Ontario CA.

Mari Ripp - Woodland, WA
Congratulations on winning the Sulky door prize drawing during the recent Sewing and Stitchery Expo in Puyallup, WA.

INTRODUCING THE EVEN BETTER SULKY KK 2000 - GREEN!

Safe for You . . .
• Exclusively Non-Flammable
• Non-Toxic
• Odorless and Clear

Safe for the Planet . . .
• Ozone Friendly
• No CFS'S or HCFC's

Maximum Coverage . . .
• Very High Ratio of Active Ingredient to Propellant
• Minimal Overspray

LOOK FOR THE NEW CAN WITH THE GREEN LID AND EARTH LABEL.

Still the great product you have come to love but with more emphasis on the "Green" components so important to all of us today. Sulky Temporary Spray Adhesive contains HIGHLY CONCENTRATED, non-flammable material combined with an improved directional valve and low-pressure spray to eliminate wasteful over-spraying.

You still get as much coverage with a small can of KK 2000 as you get with the larger cans because KK 2000 is highly concentrated; combine that with a low-pressure propellant and state-of-the-art spray nozzle and you get a precise spray pattern that you can direct exactly where you want it. No wasteful over-spraying.

The improved spray nozzle allows closer spraying without fear of propellant build-up.

Thought for the Month

FREE Project of the Month

Crazy Patchwork made Easy with Lustrous Sulky Rayon threads

As shown on "Sew Creative" PBS TV Show by Joyce Drexler

Project with step-by-step instructions is from the book Patchwork Concepts In Sulky (#900B-14).

There is also a Consumer Newsletter Archive on our website so you can read back issues. For more information on any of our products or programs contact me at asksulky@sulky.com or visit sulky.com..

Kind regards,

Patti Lee
Vice President
Consumer Relations
Sulky of America, Inc.
Patti.lee@sulky.com
www.sulky.com.