Trials and Tribulations with Quilting, Machine Embroidery, Sewing and Knitting
Posted in Digitizing, Foundation Blocks, Machine Embroidery, Software on Dec 9th, 2011
I finished testing my flying geese block – it took three attempts. I made this block using foundation (or paper) piecing on my embroidery machine. I digitised the design using Embird Studio. The final design size is 138.4 mm by 139.6 mm. Read this if you’re interested in using your embroidery machine to foundation piece [...]
Posted in Digitizing, Foundation Blocks, Machine Embroidery, Software on Nov 16th, 2011
I’ve been using my embroidery machine to make foundation pieced quilt blocks. This makes for greater accuracy. I wrote a tutorial about it a few years ago – you can find it here. There are also a few free designs available for download (hour glass, snail trail, water lily and picture frame). I digitised [...]
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 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, Software on May 4th, 2009
As promised, here is the start of the tutorial.
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 [...]
Posted in Machine Embroidery, Magazines, Software on Dec 29th, 2008
I subscribe to the Inspirations magazine and in issue 52 they had this blackwork butterfly by Tanja Berlin. I like it and I would like to try to replicate it with machine embroidery (my hand embroidery is hopeless …). Here’s part of a wing that I’ve been working on in Thred. It still needs a bit [...]
Posted in Machine Embroidery, Software on Nov 30th, 2007
As I’m planning on making a few more of these towels as gifts, I thought I would describe the process. I like to use a sans-serif font. Less fiddly when you come to sew the letters on! My favourite at the moment is Verdana. I use a combination of Paint, Scansoft PC (an old Janome [...]
Posted in Software on Apr 9th, 2007
Happy Easter everyone! I’ve been busy making stock for my market stall. The sewing is almost finished, but I haven’t even started on the admin stuff. I’ve bought PC Quilt software. I’m hoping to use it to help with my quilt design. I can do individual blocks, but I wanted something to show me different layouts. [...]