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Meet Mary Mulari

After years of searching for the right job, Mary Mulari discovered it at her fingertips. Always an avid sewer, Mary found her niche designing appliques, writing creative sewing books, and teaching.

While attending a local craft festival in 1982, Mary recalls, "I noticed several decorated sweat shirts at the show and realized how valuable those soft, warm garments are in our wardrobes." She experimented with sweatshirt decorations and began teaching a class on her discoveries for local community education. Since then, she has been teaching a class on her ideas at seminars around the United States and in Canada, and publishing books.

Designer Sweatshirts, her first book, proved to be so successful that in 1984 Mary published a second book, Applique Design Collection (Both books out of print and no longer available). These were followed by seven other books:
  • More Designer Sweatshirts (no longer available),
  • Country Style Appliques (no longer available),
  • Adventure in Applique,
  • Accents for Your Style,
  • Designer Wearables and Gifts (no longer available),
  • Deluxe Designs (no longer available),
  • Travel Gear & Gifts to Make (no longer available)
Each book features her own hand lettering and illustrations.

Her decorating techniques now are presented on a variety of garments and accessories as well as sweatshirts. Mary published the following books with the Chilton Book Company.
  • Sweatshirts with Style (no longer available)
  • Mary Mulari's Garments with Style (no longer available)
  • More Sweatshirts with Style (no longer available)

These were followed by Mary Mulari Appliques with Style, Denim & Chambray with Style, Accessories with Style, and Made for Travel (KP Publications). Her latest books are Simply Napkins, Embroidery Machine Essentials: Applique Techniques and Sweatshirt Makeovers.

Mary Mulari Mary has designed patterns for the McCall Pattern Company and embroidery cards collections for Husqvarna Viking, Cactus Punch, and Amazing Designs.

Mary learned to sew as a member of the Loon Lake 4-H Club in Palo, Minnesota. She has a bachelor of science degree in English education from the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

Her designs and writing have appeared in publications which include Notions, Creative Machine Embroidery, and Designs in Machine Embroidery.

Mary appears frequently as a guest on the PBS television program Sewing with Nancy and also as a sewing specialist on Handmade by Design, Creative Living with Sheryl Borden, America Sews with Sue Hausmann, and Sew Perfect with Sandra Betzina.

Mary continues to develop ideas for new publications, test products for the sewing industry, market her books, and present seminars. She has also designed fabric collections for Marcus Brothers Textiles.

By using her talents and creativity in sewing, designing, and writing, Mary's work has truly been found at her fingertips.

TESTIMONIAL: "I thoroughly enjoyed your program on the Creative Machine Cruise. Besides your great ideas, yours was the neatest, most precise, and best organized presentation I've ever seen. I loved your input on woman's self worth. Your message is one that is often needed and too seldom heard." -- B.P.

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