Outer bag This is a pattern I’ve been meaning to make for some time, but I kept procrastinating. Then my LQS advertised a class to make the very same bag, so I signed up in order to force myself to make it. LOL! The class lasted six hours, and it’s […]
embroidery
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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 […]
We’ve been reading about and mourning the loss of those 20 innocent children and six courageous adults last week at the Sandy Hill school in Connecticut. Who knows how or why these things happen? I won’t get political and say what I think about gun control, but today I found […]
I’ve been busy today! Christmas is sneaking up on me, so I’ve been baking and working on projects for the holidays today. One of the projects was to make some machine embroidered gift card holders from a CD I’d purchased a few months ago. The CD is from Dakota Collectibles […]
While I was in Houston, I was able to hang out with some people I don’t normally have the opportunity to see. One of them, Sue, is from Michigan, and we get together each year in Houston. This year she brought me a beautiful machine-embroidered piece with a Christmas theme […]
Last night I attended the second of three mastery classes for machine embroidery. We learned more about placement in the hoop and how to use stabilizers and that sort of thing. To practice, we made free-standing lace ornaments, and I chose to do a sleigh. It was lots of fun […]