Trials and Tribulations with Quilting, Machine Embroidery and Sewing
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 Machine Embroidery, Sewing Machine, Software on May 10th, 2009
The tutorial (on how to create large machine embroideries) is finished you can find it here.
Posted in Machine Embroidery, Sewing Machine, Software on May 3rd, 2009
I have an embroidery sewing machine. It’s largest hoop is 200mm by 140mm (not including the gigahoop). I’ve always wanted to embroider a larger area and finally I did. I used Embird (to create the design and print the template) and a clothsetter (to place the fabric accurately in the hoop).
I made a birth sampler for [...]
Posted in Machine Embroidery, Sewing Machine on Dec 1st, 2007
In Part 1Â I digitised my letters. Now I’m going to stitch them out and attach them to a towel.
I like use calico (Quilters muslin) as a stabiliser for my T-Shirt and Towel appliques. It seems to work really well for me.
As you can see, I hoop the fabric as well. For some other projects I [...]
Posted in Sewing Machine on May 4th, 2007
In the end I bought a Janome 1600p
I’m really pleased with it – it seems to do everything I want. I was a bit disappointed that it didn’t come with the darning foot (for stippling) or the even feed foot, but I will buy those in the next week or two.
The quilt in the picture [...]