Embroidery
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010I have lots of stashes of various bits and pieces of items in my sewing room – fabric scraps, ribbon, beads, buttons and who-knows what else. At times when I’m sorting through things, I often wonder to myself, “Do I really need to keep all this stash of stuff?” And usually I end this mental [...]
Just make your own fabric!
Friday, March 26th, 2010When I started thinking about this little purse/clutch that I wanted to stitch, I had an idea of what fabric I wanted to use. Did I have such a piece of fabric in my hands? Uh, no.
The solution: create it!
I sandwiched a piece of batting between two layers of poly satin. Using my software, I [...]
Floral Elegance Designs
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010As I’ve been debating what quilt to start teaching this year, I stitched out a design from Judy Nowicki’s Floral Elegance embroidery collection and really am pleased with the quality of the embroidery. The designs are beautiful!
One of the unique stitch details about this design is that the vines running between the florals is a [...]
Creative Expressions Issue 25
Monday, January 18th, 2010Get a head start on next year’s Christmas projects with all the ideas packed into Creative Expressions Issue 25!
In this issue:
Christmas Star Quilt
Scissor Caddy
Coconut Ice Snow
Galleria Pillows
Victorian Christmas Quilt
Note from Serena: This issue is full of Christmas projects and ideas! Don’t miss out on it!
Change your needle!
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Believe it or not, sewing machine needles are not intended to last forever. The little mechanism that holds the needle in place on your sewing machine has a screw that tightens and loosens. That means you are able to take out the old needle and put in a new one.
As I pulled my needle from [...]
Oh how I love embroidery software!
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Ok, I admit, it’s been a while since I’ve really sat down and played with my computer embroidery software. Yes, I use it several times a week, if not everyday to open designs, resize, send designs to the machine, etc. But those are just the basic, everyday uses that it is capable of doing. I [...]
Creative Expressions: Moulin Rouge & Fragrant Delights
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Moulin Rouge and Fragrant Delights are two special issues of Creative Expressions, written by Jenny & Simon Haskins. I was able to grab a stack of back issues and am able to offer them to you at 50% off! Both these magazines are filled with fun machine embroidery projects and ideas in addition to instructions [...]
Enhanced features in Bernina’s Quilter program
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009I have used Bernina’s Quilter program in the embroidery software for some projects. It is helpful to be able to actually put fabric samples into blocks, sashing and borders and then insert an embroidery design to “see” what it will look like. It’s not something I use a whole lot, but it is helpful. While [...]
Embroidery Marathon – Complete!
Monday, October 5th, 2009Whew! I feel like all I did last week was embroider. And actually that’s just about what I did! My goal starting last Tuesday morning was to get 30 hours of embroidery done in two days. Did I make it? I’m thrilled to say yes! Here’s what I was able to get accomplished among other [...]
Embroidery Marathon – 30 hours of stitching in 2 days!!
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009Sometime there comes a point when it’s time to stitch and stitch and stitch!!! Which is what I’m doing right now! I’ve decided in the next two days (today & tomorrow) I have 30 hours of machine embroidery that needs to be done! It’s amazing just how many designs you can stitch in a day. [...]
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