America Sews with Sue Hausmann

Joyce Drexler, Co-Founder and Creative Director for Sulky of America, shows some truly amazing pillow embellishments that were created by Sulky Designer, Carol Ingram. Using the Sulky Cotton Blendables together with the beautiful decorative stitches on the machine, Carol has created the most magnificent silk dupioni pillow by incorporating lots of different embellishment techniques. Joyce specifically shows, step-by-step, the woven pillow made with padded, decorative stitched strips, woven tightly together over Sulky Tender Touch Stabilizer.

Carol knitted a beautiful entrelac pillow cover and then added a silk piece that was enhanced with yarn using the yarn couching foot. It takes your breath away! All knitted pieces are blocked and fused to Sulky Tender Touch Stabilizer.

For the Quick Project (below), Jody Hooker, Viking Freelance Educator, used Sulky Cotton Thread in the Serger to chain stitch over English netting and Sulky Fabri-Solvy to create a fancy, translucent band which is then stitched onto a t-shirt using woven ribbon as a frame for the band.

PBS TV Show #2912 - Free-motion Magic with Eric Drexler

Eric Drexler, National Educator and Sales Coordinator for Sulky, is the king of free-motion work. Eric shares his expertise and excitement for this old, but always new again, technique. Eric talks about how to do free-motion work on a preprinted batik panel of a dragon. Specifically, he shows how to take a drawing and size it to your needs, then transfer the drawing onto Sulky Soft 'n Sheer Cut-Away Stabilizer to use as a pattern.

Eric also shows a pair of jeans that he embellished with his free-motion embroidery for his teen-age daughter, Amber, using Sulky Super Solvy to transfer the design onto the jeans, and then Sulky Totally Stable Iron-On Stabilizer to stabilize the wrong side.

He then took a digitized computerized design, reproduced it for free-motion work, and drew it on Sulky Soft 'n Sheer. Eric shows the beauty and ease of making your own free-motion embroidered design (that duplicates the computerized design) but brings the singular beauty of free-motion to the work.

Eric explains the quality of the wooden hoops and the need for this type of quality hoop when doing free-motion work. He also explains why he prefers a 14/90 topstitch needle even with the lightweight Sulky 40 wt. Rayon because it reduces the stress on the thread for this intense, dense work. Eric shows how free-motion embroidery correlates to free-motion quilting and how quilters can so easily do free-motion embroidery if they are already free-motion quilters.

For the Quick Project, Jody Hooker, Viking Educator, shows an adorable gem bag in 3 sizes that becomes the perfect palette for embellishment.

Look for these shows coming soon to a PBS-TV station near you!

IN 2009 - IT'S TIME TO FOLLOW YOUR DREAM...
"SULKY TECHNIQUES GALORE AND MORE!"

Two more Sulky Certified Teacher Training Events were held in Phoenix, AZ, and Bloomington, MN, early this month, taught by Sulky National Freelance Educators, Lee Fletcher and Linda Simmons, respectively. Packed full of so much excitement and learning, they were just too much fun. Most everyone who attended said they want to come back next year! There are still several opportunities left for you to attend one of these Certified Teacher Training events this year to learn more than 15 different sewing techniques for teaching or for fun!

Find out more about the projects and techniques...

Sulky National Educator, Lee Fletcher (seated, second from right),
and her dynamic Teacher Certification ladies in early May in Phoenix, AZ.

Some Things Of Interest On Our Website

Sulky Co-Sponsors 2009 Hoffman Challenge!

Our newest Seminar
"The Creative Art of Stabilizing"

Sulky of America Announces A New Book By Joyce Drexler
An Updated Supplement to Sulky's Secrets to Successful Stabilizing Book

Visit Our "Free Projects" Section Of Our Website For More Than 60 Free, Downloadable Projects

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 SHOW WINNER:

Doris Carstens
Idaho Falls, ID
Congratulations on winning the Sulky door prize drawing during the recent HMQS show in Salt Lake City, UT.

Vickie Wassell
Steger, IL
Congratulations on winning the Sulky door prize drawing during the recent AQS show in Paducah, KY.

Debbi Lauzier
Bristol, CT
Congratulations on winning the Sulky door prize drawing during the recent OSQE show in Worcester, MA.

Georgette Dwyer
Braintree, MA
Congratulations on winning the Sulky door prize drawing during the recent MQX show in Manchester, NH. To find out where and when Sulky will be exhibiting, check our website, sulky.com and click on Shows with Sulky

Rocky Mountain Quilt Festival

$2.00 Off admission - Open to the public
Compliments of Sulky.

August 22 - 23, 2009
Loveland, CO The Ranch Convention Center

Admission $7.00 with coupon $5.00
Kids 16 & under FREE
Parking FREE

www.rockymountainquiltfestival.com

For Those Of You Going To Washington, DC, In The Near Future

G Street Fabrics is happy to be showing the quilts made by members of the Mid-Atlantic Professional Machine Quilters Guild. This is the first time G Street Fabrics has mounted a concurrent show of one quilting group in all 3 store locations. There are an impressive 55 quilts in Rockville, Centreville and Falls Church combined.

MAPMQG members also use their quilting services to promote awareness for such foundations as the Quilts Of Valor, Linus Quilts, Race for the Cure, ACS Relay for Life, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, as well as other causes.

For more information on MAPMQG and quilting services inquiries please contact Sue Moats at: moatsue@aol.com.

We want to thank the members who have loaned their quilts to be shared with our community and a special thanks to Sue Moats, National Sulky Freelance Educator, who was the organizing member of this exhibit.

Thought for the Month

FREE Project of the Month

Fringed Fabric - A Sulky Heat-Away Project By Pat Welch

Patti Lee models Pat Welch's vest.

"When the medium is yarn, small squares, or anything that needs a shape to build on, I use Heat Away because it retains its shape as you build, then disappears with a hot iron, leaving light-as-air projects."
--- Pat

Use this technique to make "fringed fabric" for a vest, jacket, inset, or home decorating project.

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. Either of these sources will have the books and other Sulky products you will need to make this project.

VISIT OUR "FREE PROJECTS" SECTION OF OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE THAN 60 FREE, DOWNLOADABLE PROJECTS: www.sulky.com/project/index_project.php

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