Trials and Tribulations with Quilting, Machine Embroidery, Sewing and Knitting
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery, Sewing Machine on Oct 13th, 2009
I’ve been working on the pony design all day (off and on). My machine informed me it would take 46 minutes, but that’s just sewing time and once you take into account trimming the applique fabric and changing the thread it takes much longer even if you’re doing nothing else – whereas I’ve had a [...]
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery, Sewing, Software on Oct 12th, 2009
Miss A wanted a Pony T-Shirt. I’ve put it all together in Embird. The pony and flower are from Designs by Juju. The alphabet I use in the label is one of Embird’s alphabets (22 I think) and I make the satin stitched borders in Thred. This is Miss P (who – of course – [...]
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery, Quilting on Oct 11th, 2009
I only posted twice last month! Above is the P block of my Alphabet Quilt.
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery, Quilting on Aug 25th, 2009
This one didn’t register very well and if I have any fabric left at the end I will make another.
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery, Quilting on Aug 19th, 2009
Another block finished – and yes that does mean a bit more ironing got done.
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery, Quilting on Aug 17th, 2009
I’ve finished another block for my Alphabet Quilt. I like to do machine embroidery while tackling the ironing. It means I can keep an eye on my machine and the ironing doesn’t seem as tedious. I still have an ironing pile so ‘N’ might happen today as well … Oh and this is my 200th [...]
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery on Jun 25th, 2009
Another friend had a baby – a little girl this time. The T-Shirt is organic cotton from here and the cupcake design from here.
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery, Quilting on Jun 16th, 2009
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery, Quilting on Jun 10th, 2009
The designs are from here …
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery, Quilting on Jun 9th, 2009
J is finished.