Things are heating up here in the desert; we’ve been in triple digits for weeks now, with no relief in sight. Luckily, air conditioning is everywhere here: cars, homes, stores, theaters. In fact, I usually have to take a light sweater with me to many places, since the AC gets […]
Embroidery
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I’m still very new at doing machine embroidery, but some months ago I bought a pattern for an adorable gingerbread house. It took me a while to begin working on it, but it’s finally finished. It’s anything but perfect, but I still think it’s cute. The various pieces started out […]
I started a new quilt the other day, and that’s the end of that story. LOL! This one is simply not going to be finished. After making a few blocks, I just don’t like it the way I thought I would. Oh well. Not every project is destined to become […]
The title of this post is the name of the project I’ve just completed — a quick one that will be pretty useful. It begins with a pattern called Quilted Cook & Carry and was modified by the education department at Bernina USA as part of their All About Embroidery program. The original […]
My quilting buddy from Phoenix has been spending a few days here with me, and we had a project in mind to keep us busy and out of trouble. 😉 We used our embroidery modules to appliqué some adorable puppies from this pattern. They’re so cute that we’ve been oohing and […]
When I recently began using the embroidery module on my Bernina to create labels, I had no intention at all of using it for other embroidered projects. Yup. So much for that idea! 😉 Since then, I’ve done a few small free-standing lace embroideries, and I did those little gift […]